The Ivy League canceled its winter season. Are we really gonna do this?
We may not end up playing a season with numbers spiking right now, but it won't be due to the Ivy League. I think there is a bit of Ivy fatigue with them making these decisions.
I agree with you. They're always going to err on the side of caution – kind of a holier-than-thou vibe coming from them. I just wonder with cases popping up seemingly everywhere and the COVID numbers talk resurfacing with the election behind us if universities will say it isn't worth the trouble.
It isn't. This winter is going to be terrible and I wouldn't expect any winter or spring sports. We'll lose a whole athletic year to Covid. So no spring football either. Even the FBS is going to be hard pressed to finish their season. Like half the games this weekend have been cancelled/postponed (not really, but it feels like it).
I tend to agree, and that's why I just haven't gotten excited about upcoming season. We're definitely on the bubble here. Feel bad for these student-athletes. Feel bad for everyone actually.
Feel bad for the student athletes in the Ivy League.
Rather than thinking the Ivy League is erring on the safe side I think they are erring on the non-science side. I don't believe the Ivy League Presidents think that prudently playing interscholastic sports leads to an increase in student (or any) deaths due to Covid. Either directly or indirectly.
Of course I also thought that the science was unclear as to whether college-aged students on campus have a higher rate of Covid than College-aged students living off campus or College -age kids not enrolled in college at all. Yet most Ivies shut down their campuses to kids (at least partially if not totally). And the notion that kids on campus are more likely to spread Covid to vulnerable folks seems similarly non-scientific.
We may be looking at gestures when it comes to Ivy-League sports - - rather than science-based decisions. That may apply to more than the Ivy League.