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Post by rogero1 on Jul 11, 2020 13:22:07 GMT -5
No college coaches in attendance Oh I thought they could watch via ballertv or the like. Oops If college sports goes away, does that mean that huge events like AAUs also die off? No scholarships, just a desire to play for the fun of it?
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Post by Phaedrus on Jul 11, 2020 15:25:17 GMT -5
Oh I thought they could watch via ballertv or the like. Oops If college sports goes away, does that mean that huge events like AAUs also die off? No scholarships, just a desire to play for the fun of it? I think the scale of it will be diminished considerably, and the economics of the large convention center tournaments will also change but not go away. I think some of them will go away because the economics just doesn't make sense. I don't think the "good old days" will come back however.
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Post by mervinswerved on Jul 11, 2020 17:06:27 GMT -5
In the scenario where things get so bad in America college athletics disappears, we're going to have a lot bigger problems than college sports or AAU volleyball tournaments going away.
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Post by n00b on Jul 11, 2020 17:16:34 GMT -5
If college sports goes away, does that mean that huge events like AAUs also die off? No scholarships, just a desire to play for the fun of it? I think the scale of it will be diminished considerably, and the economics of the large convention center tournaments will also change but not go away. I think some of them will go away because the economics just doesn't make sense. I don't think the "good old days" will come back however. I don't know. At a time when only 44% of Americans feel comfortable eating out at a restaurant, we're still going to have a 300+ team convention center tournament in Orlando next week. There is a LOT of demand for large convention center tournaments. The big ones sell out within a few weeks or registration opening in October and have a wait list a mile long.
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Post by silverchloride on Jul 12, 2020 4:19:01 GMT -5
T-2 days...
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Post by Phaedrus on Jul 12, 2020 6:34:27 GMT -5
I think the scale of it will be diminished considerably, and the economics of the large convention center tournaments will also change but not go away. I think some of them will go away because the economics just doesn't make sense. I don't think the "good old days" will come back however. I don't know. At a time when only 44% of Americans feel comfortable eating out at a restaurant, we're still going to have a 300+ team convention center tournament in Orlando next week. There is a LOT of demand for large convention center tournaments. The big ones sell out within a few weeks or registration opening in October and have a wait list a mile long. The tournament went from 2900 teams to 350. Much depends on how and when a vaccine is available and more importantly, whether it will be priced affordably. The long term economy is a disaster, the return of the large convention center tournaments depend on families willing and able to pay for them. How many will see paying for volleyball as a priority, or will they see it as a luxury? Are people willing to travel if there is no vaccine?
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Post by Kingsley on Jul 12, 2020 8:22:58 GMT -5
I don't know. At a time when only 44% of Americans feel comfortable eating out at a restaurant, we're still going to have a 300+ team convention center tournament in Orlando next week. There is a LOT of demand for large convention center tournaments. The big ones sell out within a few weeks or registration opening in October and have a wait list a mile long. Much depends on how and when a vaccine is available and more importantly, whether it will be priced affordably. Will the pharmaceutical industry put the well-being of the human race over profits? Absolutely not.
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Post by mervinswerved on Jul 12, 2020 8:45:33 GMT -5
Much depends on how and when a vaccine is available and more importantly, whether it will be priced affordably. Will the pharmaceutical industry put the well-being of the human race over profits? Absolutely not. All the more reason the patent/formula/recipe should be seized and the vaccine distributed free of cost to everyone.
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Post by rogero1 on Jul 12, 2020 10:41:22 GMT -5
I don't know. At a time when only 44% of Americans feel comfortable eating out at a restaurant, we're still going to have a 300+ team convention center tournament in Orlando next week. There is a LOT of demand for large convention center tournaments. The big ones sell out within a few weeks or registration opening in October and have a wait list a mile long. The tournament went from 2900 teams to 350. Much depends on how and when a vaccine is available and more importantly, whether it will be priced affordably. The long term economy is a disaster, the return of the large convention center tournaments depend on families willing and able to pay for them. How many will see paying for volleyball as a priority, or will they see it as a luxury? Are people willing to travel if there is no vaccine? 300+ teams say “yes”.
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Post by pepperbrooks on Jul 12, 2020 11:00:18 GMT -5
The tournament went from 2900 teams to 350. Much depends on how and when a vaccine is available and more importantly, whether it will be priced affordably. The long term economy is a disaster, the return of the large convention center tournaments depend on families willing and able to pay for them. How many will see paying for volleyball as a priority, or will they see it as a luxury? Are people willing to travel if there is no vaccine? 300+ teams say “yes”. I'm astounded that many are actually doing this. If the majority are from Florida it makes a little more sense, but otherwise, what are you thinking...
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Post by Not Me on Jul 12, 2020 12:12:14 GMT -5
Florida had 15,000 new cases yesterday???!!!
That is absurd
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Post by Phaedrus on Jul 12, 2020 13:04:19 GMT -5
The tournament went from 2900 teams to 350. Much depends on how and when a vaccine is available and more importantly, whether it will be priced affordably. The long term economy is a disaster, the return of the large convention center tournaments depend on families willing and able to pay for them. How many will see paying for volleyball as a priority, or will they see it as a luxury? Are people willing to travel if there is no vaccine? 300+ teams say “yes”. 2600 teams said no.
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Post by paref on Jul 12, 2020 15:22:47 GMT -5
I'm astounded that many are actually doing this. If the majority are from Florida it makes a little more sense, but otherwise, what are you thinking... I mentioned about a week ago that a team from my area (Central Pa.) is going to AAU Nationals come hell or high water. The club that I run had 14 teams this year and if I sent out a mass email to our players/parents today saying that we could still get into the tournament, I would bet that I would get a positive response from 20% of them. There is a small but stubborn percentage of folks in my area who absolutely believe that COVID-19 is a hoax and a fraud perpetrated on the public by the media. There is also a larger percentage who think that it is way overblown and the chance of them catching it is zero. And if they would somehow, by a confluence of the stars, actually contract the disease, "Hey, it's no worse than a mild flu!". Does that answer your question?
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Post by Riviera Minestrone on Jul 12, 2020 15:39:49 GMT -5
I'm astounded that many are actually doing this. If the majority are from Florida it makes a little more sense, but otherwise, what are you thinking... I mentioned about a week ago that a team from my area (Central Pa.) is going to AAU Nationals come hell or high water. The club that I run had 14 teams this year and if I sent out a mass email to our players/parents today saying that we could still get into the tournament, I would bet that I would get a positive response from 20% of them. There is a small but stubborn percentage of folks in my area who absolutely believe that COVID-19 is a hoax and a fraud perpetrated on the public by the media. There is also a larger percentage who think that it is way overblown and the chance of them catching it is zero. And if they would somehow, by a confluence of the stars, actually contract the disease, "Hey, it's no worse than a mild flu!". Does that answer your question? Just as some demographers who study voter tendencies have shown that certain populations vote against specific measures which would help them out the most? Age-old maxim applies here: "There is no accounting for stupid" (ain't that the truth)!
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Post by pepperbrooks on Jul 12, 2020 16:01:34 GMT -5
I'm astounded that many are actually doing this. If the majority are from Florida it makes a little more sense, but otherwise, what are you thinking... I mentioned about a week ago that a team from my area (Central Pa.) is going to AAU Nationals come hell or high water. The club that I run had 14 teams this year and if I sent out a mass email to our players/parents today saying that we could still get into the tournament, I would bet that I would get a positive response from 20% of them. There is a small but stubborn percentage of folks in my area who absolutely believe that COVID-19 is a hoax and a fraud perpetrated on the public by the media. There is also a larger percentage who think that it is way overblown and the chance of them catching it is zero. And if they would somehow, by a confluence of the stars, actually contract the disease, "Hey, it's no worse than a mild flu!". Does that answer your question? I’ll never understand that logic.
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