CSU campuses shut down this fall; CCAA cancels fall events

[Anchorage]

A whole slew more suspensions...

D1 Patriot League have suspended all sports for the Fall Semester.

D1 Hampton has suspended all fall sports.

D2 Bridgeport has cancelled all Fall Sports.

D2 League CACC has suspended all sports until Jan 1st 2021.

[Anchorage]

Maricopa (Arizona) community college league has suspended all athletics for the 2020-21 season. This is a high quality JC basketball league that we see kids come into the GNAC from.

*update The College Presidents of the 10 schools now say they have only recommended that Athletics be suspended but no formal action has been ratified.

[Anchorage]

[tsull]

Yesterday the U-Cal system said that they would be open this fall. Seems that the State system jumped the gun. It would be odd to have one set of public schools open yet the other system closed in the same state.

Looks like the CSU system might have been right: California had its worst day yet yesterday. People need to quit taking this lightly, starting with universities and their desperate athletic departments.

[laker]

Yesterday the U-Cal system said that they would be open this fall. Seems that the State system jumped the gun. It would be odd to have one set of public schools open yet the other system closed in the same state.

[Anchorage]

[northernGNAChoopfan]

Alaska is opening up almost completely this Friday, and that includes large gatherings such as concerts, festivals and sporting events provided the venue is in contact with state advisors. Alaska still has a 14 day quarantine for people entering the state from outside but that is to be reviewed on June 2nd.

Provided there is no major relapse in cases/deaths, it appears the Alaska teams will be ready to open the college basketball season on October 15th.

1. There will be more cases now, that's for sure. It'll be interesting to see what human behavior is going to do with everything being thrown open pretty wide. We're lucky to live in a place that's pretty physically distanced without having to sacrifice too much daily.
2. Alaska's teams won't be ready to go if UAA and UAF don't open their campuses to in person classes and remain online, because most of our players don't live in Alaska.
3. Even if Alaska has college students on campus this fall and things are awesome in Alaska, that won't matter if the rest of the GNAC or the NCAA makes the call that things aren't swimmingly awesome everywhere else. Our league's headquarters are in Portland and the center of the league revolves around Seattle. I don't think the league is going to weigh Fairbanks and Anchorage too closely in their analysis of how to move forward with sports.
4. There is still so much to figure out and evolve before October, just cause we're opening up this Friday doesn't mean mid October is going to be all things normal. I know you got a kid on the team and thus need to be optimistic about the season, but what Dunleavy announces today has almost no bearing on what will be happening in October, especially since he doesn't have any say in what college athletics will look like. That said, I appreciate the optimism and continually feel like a Debbie Downer in my responses to you; sorry for that. I would be only too happy to have you be right on this one. Let's hope so.

[tsull]

Alaska is opening up almost completely this Friday, and that includes large gatherings such as concerts, festivals and sporting events provided the venue is in contact with state advisors. Alaska still has a 14 day quarantine for people entering the state from outside but that is to be reviewed on June 2nd.

Provided there is no major relapse in cases/deaths, it appears the Alaska teams will be ready to open the college basketball season on October 15th.

Oregon has a no-big-crowds rule through September. Where I live in Idaho, they're slowly opening up in phases, but our number of cases and death keep going up rather rapidly every day. They'll probably have to shut it down again as most people around don't practice the guidelines and get all whiny when they're told to do so. At the beginning, Idaho was doing well, we're now percentage-wise in relation to our population, one of the worst in the nation for slowing the spread of the virus.

[Anchorage]

Alaska is opening up almost completely this Friday, and that includes large gatherings such as concerts, festivals and sporting events provided the venue is in contact with state advisors. Alaska still has a 14 day quarantine for people entering the state from outside but that is to be reviewed on June 2nd.

Provided there is no major relapse in cases/deaths, it appears the Alaska teams will be ready to open the college basketball season on October 15th.

[tsull]

I think college basketball ball will be played this year; I'm skeptical sbout college football. Oxford University is moving pretty quickly on a vaccine by the end of September or October or November. The NCAA should just move college football to the spring and call it a day.

I think they can start college basketball in January and extend the season a little bit, maybe play some more non-conference tournaments at one site to save money.

[CWU Wildcat Nation]

CSU Dominguez Hills just got a big commit from 6'10" San Bernardino Valley College transfer Cam Butler. Interesting he committed to a CSU program given what is going on. He even passed up like 3 Division 1 offers including Cal Poly. Also held an offer from CWU. Highlights: https://twitter.com/camm2x/status/1244404374140416000

[CWU Wildcat Nation]

You think online classes would work better for athletes, considering how little they are actually in class due to travelling for away games. Weird.

I just think whole NCAA should cancel fall sports, otherwise it should be a school by school decision, or at least the CCAA members should have the chance to play the season as an independent (though it would be hard to find games to schedule)

[tsull]

They can at least enter the transfer portal to see who reaches out from other conferences that have a better chance of staying open. If all of fall college sports was going to be cancelled or postponed, we would be hearing something from the NCAA.

You'll be hearing something soon. San Jose State, Fresno State, and San Diego State are part of the CSU system and the NCAA says no on-campus classes, no football. This affects the Mountain West. Sac State and Cal Poly are in the CSU system and in the Big Sky for football and that hampers that conference. Most junior and senior athletes are deep into their academic program, some will transfer, many won't. I saw some cool senior update videos on WOU spring athletes, most were moving on in life even with being granted another year. WOU's best softball player, I believe earned some national honors last year and would've been up for similar honors this year, said she was happy to be moving on towards her career. One senior said she was coming back, three said they were moving on; similar in track and baseball, too.

[CWU Wildcat Nation]

They can at least enter the transfer portal to see who reaches out from other conferences that have a better chance of staying open. If all of fall college sports was going to be cancelled or postponed, we would be hearing something from the NCAA.

[tsull]

The CCAA is very wrong to make this decision so early, with 4 months before the season even begins. This is terrible for all of the athletes. However, maybe it is for the best to make this call now, so that those athletes can have time to transfer to other programs, perhaps in Texas which is already reopening things.

This is a public health decision as the United States had 17,000 new cases of the virus found yesterday. Texas maybe opening things up right now, they will be closing things in August. It's better to make the decision early so the campuses can prepare for the fall. The NCAA is stupid to be dragging out the college football season decision into May. That decision should have been done yesterday.

Oxford University is in the lead to find a vaccine and they say the earliest would be the end of September and that's probably not going to happen. They know a little bit about science at Oxford.