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Post by volleav on Aug 14, 2020 11:42:36 GMT -5
With almost 2/3 of the D1 conferences postponing, anyone has any insights on why the remaining conferences are still planning a fall season? Any info relating to volleyball? Please no long political rants. Thanks! Potential reasons that have probably all come up, but I don't know which carries the most weight. 1) As of now, it has not been officially decided that there will be a spring championship either. That guarantee from the NCAA could definitely get conferences to change their minds. 2) Athletes want to compete. It's what they do. If the SEC thinks they can safely provide that opportunity, then they'll try. 3) They want football to play. It's bad optics to provide that opportunity to football players and not Olympic sport athletes. (And possible Title IX implications) 4) Not completing a full fall season brings a slew of eligibility and scholarship questions into play. 5) There are likely seniors who are planning to graduate after the fall semester whether there is volleyball or not. It's worth it to try to give them a season. For what it's worth, I'm not arguing that those conferences should play this fall, but those are some of the arguments I can think of for playing. Until there's a plan for spring I'd keep moving forward to play now. I think there's slim chance they'll pull off a championship in spring. They will worry more about Basketball and baseball championships.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 11:43:58 GMT -5
With almost 2/3 of the D1 conferences postponing, anyone has any insights on why the remaining conferences are still planning a fall season? Any info relating to volleyball? Please no long political rants. Thanks! Potential reasons that have probably all come up, but I don't know which carries the most weight. 1) As of now, it has not been officially decided that there will be a spring championship either. That guarantee from the NCAA could definitely get conferences to change their minds. 2) Athletes want to compete. It's what they do. If the SEC thinks they can safely provide that opportunity, then they'll try. 3) They want football to play. It's bad optics to provide that opportunity to football players and not Olympic sport athletes. (And possible Title IX implications) 4) Not completing a full fall season brings a slew of eligibility and scholarship questions into play. 5) There are likely seniors who are planning to graduate after the fall semester whether there is volleyball or not. It's worth it to try to give them a season. For what it's worth, I'm not arguing that those conferences should play this fall, but those are some of the arguments I can think of for playing. There will be more information regarding 1 & 4 on August 21 but now that the fall championship have been cancelled, neither represents a reason why a fall season would be advantageous over a spring season. 2 & 5 are irrelevant because athletes have less than no say in the process. 4 is the correct answer.
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Post by n00b on Aug 14, 2020 11:47:19 GMT -5
Potential reasons that have probably all come up, but I don't know which carries the most weight. 1) As of now, it has not been officially decided that there will be a spring championship either. That guarantee from the NCAA could definitely get conferences to change their minds. 2) Athletes want to compete. It's what they do. If the SEC thinks they can safely provide that opportunity, then they'll try. 3) They want football to play. It's bad optics to provide that opportunity to football players and not Olympic sport athletes. (And possible Title IX implications) 4) Not completing a full fall season brings a slew of eligibility and scholarship questions into play. 5) There are likely seniors who are planning to graduate after the fall semester whether there is volleyball or not. It's worth it to try to give them a season. For what it's worth, I'm not arguing that those conferences should play this fall, but those are some of the arguments I can think of for playing. There will be more information regarding 1 & 4 on August 21 but now that the fall championship have been cancelled, neither represents a reason why a fall season would be advantageous over a spring season. 2 & 5 are irrelevant because athletes have less than no say in the process. 4 is the correct answer. If 2 & 5 are irrelevant, why are they making any attempt to play in the spring? (Do you really mean 4? I assume you mean 3.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 11:49:48 GMT -5
There will be more information regarding 1 & 4 on August 21 but now that the fall championship have been cancelled, neither represents a reason why a fall season would be advantageous over a spring season. 2 & 5 are irrelevant because athletes have less than no say in the process. 4 is the correct answer. If 2 & 5 are irrelevant, why are they making any attempt to play in the spring? (Do you really mean 4? I assume you mean 3.) The answer is the same for both questions; yes, 3.
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Post by cyclonepower on Aug 14, 2020 12:13:15 GMT -5
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Post by VolleyballMag on Aug 14, 2020 13:20:49 GMT -5
ASUN and Missouri Valley move to spring. That leaves seven conferences -- 84 teams -- still in the fall, including the American Athletic, Conference USA, Ohio Valley and Sun Belt, desperately holding onto the coattails of the Big 12, ACC and SEC.
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Post by rambleratheart on Aug 14, 2020 13:20:59 GMT -5
MVC is out...
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Post by jcvball22 on Aug 14, 2020 18:21:55 GMT -5
OVC made their announcement on postponement. Another conference down.
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