I will say that he’s only reporting that the Wisconsin game is up in the air. I feel like you should be able to play Feb 14th if we’re resuming practice Feb 7th?
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Straight up, if this is actually the situation, the AD should just ignore the recommendation. I think Michigan will easily win the PR battle after shutting down for 10 days or so and never testing positive.
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While I understand the decision to not want to play games 3 days after return to action, if this is a Michigan-basketball motivated decision I’m not sure I agree with it.
I’d play a game any time and place the conference/state allows them to right now because it could be taken away from them at any second for another month.
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Nothing to add just wanted to vent some frustration. The whole shutdown was such a joke. Sigh.
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I figured this was going to happen. How are you supposed to take a 2-week vacation and then get back into midseason shape in three days?
Insane. Three things – at least – are true:
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It seems incredibly ridiculous to open restaurants and keep sports shut down.
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Michigan could have avoided all this by following basic CDC guidelines.
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The athletes would probably really appreciate it if their leader was a strong public advocate on their behalf. Thus far their leader has made more public statements in support of Ohio State’s football team than for all of Michigan’s teams.
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I’m not happy about the shutdown but I’m not sure Manuel had much leeway. It wouldn’t shock me iif the university ordered him to comply with the state recommendation.
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Agreed. I just wish his department would have followed CDC guidelines before this happened. The CDC is very clear about what should happen when an involved person gets steps off a UK flight. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, etc. etc.
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I don’t get the Warde hate for not standing up to state recommendations. Even though I think the recommendations were wrong, that’s not a power balance I want.
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My Warde hate is for running such a dysfunctional department that an athlete was allowed to go to the UK and return with no sensible protocol whatsoever.
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Very happy that Juwan loves his alma mater and has sons in the program. Otherwise we might be looking at a very able, angry and underpaid coach who build a contender and is now denied the ability to compete. That’s the sort of thing that might otherwise have Warde out there someday on the hunt for Ed Cooley Jr.
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I think the initial shutdown made sense as the spread was across multiple teams. Even if a few teams had no positives, I think it’s not crazy to shut down the whole department because there are some shared spaces and with this variant potentially being more contagious, I was fine with a shutdown. And because it can take 3-4 days for someone to test positive after contact, I was cool. But to me, it never made sense to keep teams shut down that still had 0 positive tests after that initial week. Could have been practicing this week and ready to go for games next week.
That said, shut downs are hard on everyone. I have to tell kids at my school that there’s a jr high league on the other side of town for a specific feeder pattern but we’re not even allowed to have after school programs with only our kids, let alone our jr high kids practice.
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If the idea is not to play 20 games in the conference then fine. Personally I would much rather play Illinois/Wisconsin as opposed to just playing Rutgers.
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I was okay enough with a week-long shutdown based on abundance of caution… but I don’t think the shared facilities stuff is really true. The basketball teams have their entire own building containing everything they need. I don’t think they share any facilities with the water polo team. From what we know, the cross-team contamination happened through roommate situations.
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I believe that the the student/athlete tested negative several times but was not quarantined for 14 days. Mistake because the incubation period is up to 10 days after exposure, and she might have been exposed on the flight back to the U.S.
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Ever get so angry for so long that it’s like a tired angry until it’s almost resignation, except then that turns into a replenished anger when even dumber things happen than the original dumb and you just don’t know when the dumb stops?
Yeah, that’s where I’m at.
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Exactly!!!
What if rather than doing the b1g tournament they bubbled up in Indy for 4-5 days and teams played make up games against one another.
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If only they could’ve done thorough contact tracing and a 7 day pause. I guess that makes too much sense.
If the 2/14 Wisconsin game happens and the conference tries to squeeze everything in, the following is possible based of what was already scheduled and other team schedules. The league has had no issues with making teams play every other day if they have to make up games and mentioned that back-to-backs could be done if needed. The stretch of 4 road games in 7 days would be brutal. It would be much easier if the league just canceled the conference tournament and used that week for rescheduled games.
Sun 2/14 - at Wisconsin
Tue 2/16 - vs Indiana (IU/Minnesota would move from 2/17 to 2/18)
Thr 2/18 - vs Rutgers
Sun 2/21 - at OSU
Tue 2/23 - at Penn State
Thr 2/25 - at Northwestern
Sat 2/27 - at Indiana
Mon/Tue 3/1-3/2 - vs Illinois
Thr 3/4 - vs Iowa
Sat 3/6 - vs MSU (??)
Sun 3/7 - at MSU
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