Re: NESCAC 2020
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:06 am
NESCAC presidents just cancelled the spring seasons - not suspended, cancelled.
Wow.
Yes, if you are aware that even if there is the regular flu in existence and you knowingly but others in risk or harm’s way without providing acknowledgement ... you can be held liable. Was even discussed on Fox this morning with Judge Andrew Napolitano.lax7537 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:33 pmSo if the team travels and a player gets the regular Flu they can be held liable?Nothing But Net wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:51 pm I commented earlier on another tread, about the Schools CYA tought
There is serious liability fears that if these schools would face if they allowed their teams to participate in locations designated as current “States of Emergency”, and it was deemed that the College would be considered negligent if the worst was to occur.(one of their student-athletes compete at an away competition and somehow comes become infected then passes that along to others and a tragedy occurs)
I am assuming that many small schools do not have the budget or desire to waiver through the courts or put themselves in a position of a potential lawsuits that could be forthcoming in such an event. These schools would be heavily criticized that they knowingly but others in harm’s way and risk. And, it not like they can just quarantine (Isolate) the team, since the team still would be a representation of the College.
I guess the cost of shutting down the program is less expensive than paying potentially millions if something horribly happened in their minds.
So if thats the over-arching concern, why not shut down all the elementary and high schools across the country?
You can understand why cancelling sports seasons 2-3 months in advance might be a knee-jerk reaction for some? If this is the short term solution, then the long term solution should be moving to an online educational system all together.
Well Duck, not sure where you live but around me plenty of schools (elementary – high school) are being closed. As you know the virus doesn't appear to affect children (18 and younger) like it does us older folk. Students can however get the virus (sometimes without showing symptoms) and pass it on to others. Unfortunately school administrators and the teaching staff don't fall into that same age category, and can be much more at risk.DuckLax wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:50 pmSo if thats the over-arching concern, why not shut down all the elementary and high schools across the country?
For places like Williams, Middlebury, etc, out in the middle of nowhere, if these "woke bastions of higher ed" were TRULY concerned about the students' health rather than institutional liability, they would have instead cancelled spring break, had the students spend the week on campus hanging out with no classes, not allowed visitors on to campus, and kept the students insulated from the virus in a safe haven like a small college community with limited outside contact.
But i'm sure many a snowflake wouldn't have liked that approach.
You could have easily just been mistaken for describing influenza and it's high transmission rate in public settings with an ability to kill thousands on a yearly basis. If this is now the standard that is set (for the reasons you have described above), then make it so across the board and come up with a long term preventative solution in handling highly transmittable illnesses.ToastDunk wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 3:24 pmWell Duck, not sure where you live but around me plenty of schools (elementary – high school) are being closed. As you know the virus doesn't appear to affect children (18 and younger) like it does us older folk. Students can however get the virus (sometimes without showing symptoms) and pass it on to others. Unfortunately school administrators and the teaching staff don't fall into that same age category, and can be much more at risk.DuckLax wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:50 pmSo if thats the over-arching concern, why not shut down all the elementary and high schools across the country?
For places like Williams, Middlebury, etc, out in the middle of nowhere, if these "woke bastions of higher ed" were TRULY concerned about the students' health rather than institutional liability, they would have instead cancelled spring break, had the students spend the week on campus hanging out with no classes, not allowed visitors on to campus, and kept the students insulated from the virus in a safe haven like a small college community with limited outside contact.
But i'm sure many a snowflake wouldn't have liked that approach.
My son is a senior, and it will be unfortunate to end his college lacrosse years like this. BUT it's just a game, a sport, he'll get over it. Plenty of life to live ahead of him. These young men and women playing college sports will move on, they have to. All but the "snowflakes" I imagine.
I think because based on the first four games, Tufts was 100% the #1 team in the country and those kids probably felt as though the National Championship was taken from them before they could make a run. Williams has not proven anything on the national stage and barely beating RPI shows how vulnerable they are despite all the Hype. I would celebrate too if I almost lost to team that is not in the top 20.Unknown Participant wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:03 pm I was at the Tufts game yest. and just watched the end of Williams/RPI on the webs (a comeback win by the Ephs). Interesting to note the difference between the joy with which Ephs celebrated the win tonight as compared to the melancholy response at Tufts yest. Was the difference due to a day to digest and reconcile the news or the result of a comeback win, curious.
^^^^ BIG TRUSS!!!!The12lov3 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:31 pmI think because based on the first four games, Tufts was 100% the #1 team in the country and those kids probably felt as though the National Championship was taken from them before they could make a run. Williams has not proven anything on the national stage and barely beating RPI shows how vulnerable they are despite all the Hype. I would celebrate too if I almost lost to team that is not in the top 20.Unknown Participant wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:03 pm I was at the Tufts game yest. and just watched the end of Williams/RPI on the webs (a comeback win by the Ephs). Interesting to note the difference between the joy with which Ephs celebrated the win tonight as compared to the melancholy response at Tufts yest. Was the difference due to a day to digest and reconcile the news or the result of a comeback win, curious.