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OCanada wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:47 pm Hopkins seems to have eliminated all “admissions events” which I assume includes sports. Effective today they are moving to online instruction. Non essential travel is also prohibited. Someone want to check my reading?

kennypowers wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:20 pm I don't see how Hopkins can justify having their athletes and staff travel at the moment. With the school's standing in medicine/public health, I think at the very least they postpone the events in the coming weeks until the increase in cases slows down.

jhu06 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:35 pm NBA just suspended their season, bet everything else follows. Onto 2021!

51percentcorn wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:15 am Can Hopkins make a unilateral decision or does it have to be in coordination with the BIG for lacrosse and the conference affiliation for DIII? In a way I hope so given that there are some chuckleheads that would truly believe Hopkins would do this to erase a bad season. While I don't think this is the end of the world - it is a serious health issue. I also don't think the virus automatically saves JHU lacrosse coaching jobs. One would assume they have to pay everyone if available for duty as they say so Petro's contract is up. 2-4 with an OT win against MSM as one of the 2 is not the greatest piece of recency to walk into the AD's office asking to keep your job. Petro's best chance is some unanticipated resurrection like last year.

51percentcorn wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:15 am Can Hopkins make a unilateral decision or does it have to be in coordination with the BIG for lacrosse and the conference affiliation for DIII?

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:27 am

51percentcorn wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:15 am Can Hopkins make a unilateral decision or does it have to be in coordination with the BIG for lacrosse and the conference affiliation for DIII? In a way I hope so given that there are some chuckleheads that would truly believe Hopkins would do this to erase a bad season. While I don't think this is the end of the world - it is a serious health issue. I also don't think the virus automatically saves JHU lacrosse coaching jobs. One would assume they have to pay everyone if available for duty as they say so Petro's contract is up. 2-4 with an OT win against MSM as one of the 2 is not the greatest piece of recency to walk into the AD's office asking to keep your job. Petro's best chance is some unanticipated resurrection like last year.

Lafayette just suspended all sports through at least April 5, without coordinating with the Patriot League. As far as I know they haven't had a student test positive. Schools can definitely make decisions on their own.

I agree with whoever said that conducting a nationwide coaching search in the middle of a pandemic would not only be a bad look but might also be logistically impossible. Travel is being seriously impacted, campuses are shutting down, people are entering quarantine. I'd imagine it will be rather difficult—and potentially irresponsible—to coordinate all the travel, interviews, meetings, facility tours, etc., all the stuff you'd expect from a thorough coaching search. They might just say, because of the circumstances, we're giving the guy another year to get it together and we'll approach this again in June 2021, when (theoretically) things will be back to normal.

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:27 am I agree with whoever said that conducting a nationwide coaching search in the middle of a pandemic would not only be a bad look but might also be logistically impossible. Travel is being seriously impacted, campuses are shutting down, people are entering quarantine. I'd imagine it will be rather difficult—and potentially irresponsible—to coordinate all the travel, interviews, meetings, facility tours, etc., all the stuff you'd expect from a thorough coaching search. They might just say, because of the circumstances, we're giving the guy another year to get it together and we'll approach this again in June 2021, when (theoretically) things will be back to normal.

Homer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:55 am

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:27 am I agree with whoever said that conducting a nationwide coaching search in the middle of a pandemic would not only be a bad look but might also be logistically impossible. Travel is being seriously impacted, campuses are shutting down, people are entering quarantine. I'd imagine it will be rather difficult—and potentially irresponsible—to coordinate all the travel, interviews, meetings, facility tours, etc., all the stuff you'd expect from a thorough coaching search. They might just say, because of the circumstances, we're giving the guy another year to get it together and we'll approach this again in June 2021, when (theoretically) things will be back to normal.

I'm not sure what the timing would actually need to be, though. It seems to me that, in the event of an imminent season cancellation, Hopkins could easily put out a statement announcing the decision not to renew Petro, and saying that a nationwide search will commence at such future time as the university has determined it's appropriate and safe. I don't see any great practical or political drawback to such an approach. If you can start searching 3 months from now that still puts you on essentially the normal timeline you would've had if the season had fully played out.

The other aspect is that under the scenario you're proposing, Petro has to be offered a one-year extension. If it comes with the clear implication that it's basically a technicality due to not being able to do a search at the time, and that they're fully intending to move on after 2021, are you sure Petro would sign? I'm not 100% certain he would even want to come back for another year on such terms.

nyjay wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:36 am Patriot league just cancelled spring sports. So much for the Navy game.

HopFan16 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:43 am

nyjay wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:36 am Patriot league just cancelled spring sports. So much for the Navy game.

Patriot League is saying the decision is effective March 16. So they still might play this weekend?

https://patriotleague.org/news/2020/3/1 ... ition.aspx

If that's the case, Navy will probably kick our teeth in. Their players will know it is their final game of the year, and for their seniors, their last games ever. Meanwhile we still have no idea if the B1G season will continue afterward (at this point I don't think it will, but we don't know that yet).

The league was expected to allow games for the upcoming weekend, with cancellations starting Monday. That decision is up to the individual schools.

nyjay wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:36 am Patriot league just cancelled spring sports. So much for the Navy game.

Big Dog wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:54 am

nyjay wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:36 am Patriot league just cancelled spring sports. So much for the Navy game.

We just moved up another couple of spots in teh Un-ranked.

OCanada wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:47 pm Hopkins seems to have eliminated all “admissions events” which I assume includes sports. Effective today they are moving to online instruction. Non essential travel is also prohibited. Someone want to check my reading?