It’s a pretty quick turnaround to get back into game shape if you only have a two week layoff. I’d also imagine they will continue to stay active and do individual workouts.
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Sounds like an L
don’t worry, then we’d have 2 days to turn around and go play in the Trohl Center.
I don’t even care about B1G wins/losses at this point, if you told me today we could take as long a pause as needed, end up with a 10 seed in the NCAA tournament and we’d get to see this team play in March I’d take it.
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I did not read all the comments. Maybe somebody expressed the opinion already but I think this only makes sense if Washtenaw County is planning to do a total lockdown of everyone…And that plan would only make sense if we are indeed catching the new strain early enough that we can “crush it” here and now.
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I would think this as well. But if so, why are there different protocols in different sports?
But this team won’t ever be the same. We can hope so but two weeks off (no practice no lifting no leaving your room beyond food it sounds like) while the rest of the league practices and maintains rhythm is a recipe for several losses. They will make the tournament but anything beyond a second game exit should get Juwan coach of the year nationally.
I hope this is poorly reported or understood so revisions can reasonably be made. I doubt it.
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I’m not sure that the Big Ten regular season title is out of reach. It’s definitely possible to reschedule most if not all of the games I would think. Curious why you think there should be three permanently cancelled games?
I wonder if we could push back that MSU game two days to Monday, Feb 8th and then it falls outside of the 14 day window.
Coming back from 14 days of no practice to play MSU is my greatest nightmare.
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If we’re shut down for 2 weeks, they’re gonna need to play 3 games a week for the rest of the season.
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3 games a week while also praying no one in the water polo team tests positive
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Well I’m thinking we could potentially find space between:
One game between Feb 7 (resume date) and Feb 11 vs Illinois (ideally the 9th with two days of practice beforehand)
One game between Feb 14 @ Wisconsin and Feb 18 vs Rutgers
Two games between Feb 21 @ OSU and Feb 27 @ Indiana
One game Feb 27 @ Indiana and Mar 4 vs Iowa
Those are five allotted slots and so it’ll be extremely tough, but I think it could be done. Would ruin everything if any of the subsequent games were cancelled, of course. Even then, I can see a possibility of “winning” the Big Ten the same way OSU Football did. Ugh
Man all this happens on my birthday too😔
I don’t think a 1 seed season would be derailed, maybe a 2 seed. The selection committee if everything goes well would probably value Michigan as a 1 or 2 seed. Villanova shut it down for a month and people still look at them as a 1 seed at worse a 2.
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I didn’t see this scenario but something like this has been hanging over Michigan and many other teams the entire season. Can’t say I’m shocked. Definitely not angry. More fatalistic than anything I guess. If this is it, then this is it.
Very difficult to say if Covid 19 is being contained or just getting started. 2 million deaths estimated worldwide. What if it grows to 20 million or 200 million or 2 billion. I understand erring on the side of caution. I say this while working since April with full knowledge there is a pandemic on the loose, and many of my co-workers have been infected. There are no easy answers here. To make broad proclamations about any of this is foolhardy.
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Thinking the same thing. We are in the middle of a pandemic and they have been incredibly lucky so far. Safety of the athletes should always be top priority.
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The problem is, I think erring on the side of caution means shutting down the University or doing a Washtenaw County lockdown. Shutting down the AD doesn’t make much sense because the teams don’t have anything to do with one another and therefore a volleyball player is no different than an econ major on campus. I don’t think this is scientifically cautious. If you shut it down, shut the whole thing down. Otherwise there’s not really any rhyme or reason to what you’re doing
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Then treat them all the same. Shut down any athletic department that gets a Covid outbreak beyond one student from here on out.
It won’t happen. We have decided that sports are worth the risk(right or wrong), so unless a team has actual infections we should let them play. Michigan basketball is testing every day. We will know if this is coming, just like Purdue did. This appears to be an arbitrary and horribly thought out decision for a publicity stunt.
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Correct. Just nonsense, if we have any protocols in place there should be no more risk of inter team spread than just spread with the regular public. If the basketball team test clean everyday there is no reason they should be shut down for two weeks, unless you’re going to shut down not just Michigan, but every university in the state.
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