Coronavirus Pandemic Impacts

[Pablo]

https://espnrichmond.com/54612/a10-commissioner-bernadette-mcglade-moving-foward-with-bob-black/

 

[Pablo]

Brett McMurphy
@Brett_McMurphy
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2h

Michigan Pres. Mark Schlissel tellls @WSJ, UM won’t have a football season this fall unless all students back on campus for classes & he has “some degree of doubt as to whether there will be college athletics [anywhere], at least in the fall.”

 

[Pablo]

https://hoopdirt.com/the-list-college-athletics-teams-cut-sports-suspended-and-schools-closed/:

"NCAA D1 Schools eliminating teams

• Akron – Men’s Cross Country, Men’s Golf, Women’s Tennis
• Bowling Green – Baseball
• Central Michigan – Men’s Track and Field
• Cincinnati – Men’s Soccer
• East Carolina – Men’s + Women’s Tennis, Men’s + Women’s Swimming and Diving
• Florida International – Men’s Indoor Track & Field
• Furman – Baseball, Men’s Lacrosse
• Old Dominion – Wrestling
• Wisconsin-Green Bay – Men’s + Women’s Tennis

NCAA D2 Schools eliminating teams

• Alabama Huntsville – Hockey (which competes at the D1 level), Men’s + Women’s Tennis
• Florida Tech – Football
• St. Edward’s University (TX) – Men’s + Women’s Golf, Men’s + Women’s Tennis, Men’s Soccer
• Sonoma State – Men’s + Women’s Tennis, Water Polo

Colleges + leagues suspending athletics, altering schedules
NCAA D1

Mid-American Conference (MAC) eliminates post-season league tournaments for:

• Baseball
• Softball
• Men’s Soccer
• Women’s Soccer
• Men’s Tennis
• Women’s Tennis
• Women’s Lacrosse
• Field Hockey

Men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, swimming, golf, and track & field all alter their tournament formats to include less teams in some cases, and less days for others. Complete details HERE.

NCAA D2

NCAA D2 as a whole reduced sport maximums, and reduced minimum games played by 33% for 2020-21

Sport-by-sport recommended maximums for the 2020-21 academic year only HERE.

California Collegiate Athletic Association – canceled all fall sports competitions

CCAA schools which are affected include:

• Cal Poly Pomona
• Cal State Dominguez Hills
• Cal State East Bay
• Cal State Los Angeles
• Cal State Monterey Bay
• Cal State San Bernardino
• Cal State San Marcos
• Chico State
• Humboldt State
• San Francisco State
• Sonoma State
• Stanislaus State

NJCAA

• Eastern Gateway CC (OH) – Discontinuing athletics
• Owens CC (OH) – Fall + Winter sports suspended
• Sinclair CC (OH) – All sports for 2020-21 school year suspended

*There is at least one JUCO in New England and potentially an entire group of colleges in the Midwest that have suspended or will suspend sports for a year. More on these shortly.

Colleges closing permanently (some announced pre-COVID-19 outbreak, but listing them as well).
NCAA D2

• Concordia University (OR)
• Notre Dame de Namur (CA) – scheduled to close in 20-21 – athletics discontinued now.
• Urbana University (OH)

NCAA D3

• MacMurray College (IL)
• Pine Manor College (MA) – bought by Boston College – 2 yr “teach out” plan in place

NAIA

• Holy Family College (WI)
• Lindenwood University – Belleville (IL)

NJCAA

• Mercyhurst North East (PA)"

 

[Five Two]

Here is a short piece on Wofford athletics that finishes with:
"For us, we have a huge athletic endowment, around $45 million. That money goes solely to scholarships, and that relieves the annual pressure of having to raise that money. Because of that, I think we're positioned well."
How does a school that small, with little national athletics history, have that much? I'm impressed.
https://www.wyff4.com/article/wofford-ad-anticipates-social-distancing-at-gibbs-stadium/32663528

 

[mason89]

How does a school that small, with little national athletics history, have that much? I'm impressed.

I'm impressed as well. I think it helps, though, that they've been around since 1854 and have an impressive alumni with deep pockets.

 

[Pablo]

https://woffordterriers.com/news/20...es-cost-containment-measures-for-2020-21.aspx:

"SoCon Announces Cost Containment Measures for 2020-21

The measures include:

- Reducing the number of teams qualifying for conference championships to the top four teams in the regular season in the sports of men's and women's soccer, volleyball, men's and women's tennis, softball and baseball;

- Scaling back on conference championship expenses while ensuring quality and memorable events;

- Reducing all conference baseball series from three days to two;

- Reducing the men's and women's golf championships from three days to two;

- Adjusting in-person coaches' meetings and the conference's fall meetings to virtual events;

- Adjusting in-person football and basketball media days to virtual events;

- Identifying other potential savings concepts that each institution can implement per its preference."

 

[Five Two]

have an impressive alumni with deep pockets.

I'm too lazy to search for it, who are these alums?

 

[Pablo]

I'm too lazy to search for it, who are these alums?

https://www.wofford.edu/terrier-club/terrier-club-scholarships/endowed-athletics-scholarships

 

[GMUgemini]

https://www.wofford.edu/terrier-club/terrier-club-scholarships/endowed-athletics-scholarships

Way more endowments than we've gotten started, that's for sure. I've said for awhile we should set as a goal to have every single one of our scholarships endowed here. The problem is our infrastructure is pretty crappy passed a few things (the RAC is nice, the Aquatic Center is top notch, EBA is adequate, I haven't seen what the Field House looks like since it has been renovated) and needs to take priority.

 

[tblack33]

Way more endowments than we've gotten started, that's for sure. I've said for awhile we should set as a goal to have every single one of our scholarships endowed here. The problem is our infrastructure is pretty crappy passed a few things (the RAC is nice, the Aquatic Center is top notch, EBA is adequate, I haven't seen what the Field House looks like since it has been renovated) and needs to take priority.

I wonder how much it costs to endow an athletic scholarship? We tried to endow a scholarship through Mason for a pledge brother that passed away a few years ago and the math Mason sent us back to do a named endowed scholarship just didn’t add up. The number of years times the amount we wanted it to pay out per year was somehow 50% less than what they were asking for.

Can’t remember the exact numbers now but I remember it being something like we wanted to pay out 2k per year over 10 years and they were asking for 40k or something for a named scholarship and we had no say in the requirements or who it went to.

 

[GMUgemini]

I wonder how much it costs to endow an athletic scholarship? We tried to endow a scholarship through Mason for a pledge brother that passed away a few years ago and the math Mason sent us back to do a named endowed scholarship just didn’t add up. The number of years times the amount we wanted it to pay out per year was somehow 50% less than what they were asking for.

Can’t remember the exact numbers now but I remember it being something like we wanted to pay out 2k per year over 10 years and they were asking for 40k or something for a named scholarship and we had no say in the requirements or who it went to.

I'm not sure what the endowment size would have to be to endow every athletic scholarship at Mason, but according to Mason's own website "to name an endowment requires a gift of $25,000," this is might be different than starting a new endowment?"

Also, apparently there is an $8 million funding limit set by the NCAA. From Giving to Mason: "Our goal is to fill the gap between the levels of currently funded scholarship in our 22 sports ($5.5 million) and the maximum number allowed by the NCAA ($8 million)." One of Mason Athletics top priorities supposedly is to fill this gap (who knew?) The other two are the continued construction of the basketball practice facility and the academic support center.

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

I wonder how much it costs to endow an athletic scholarship? We tried to endow a scholarship through Mason for a pledge brother that passed away a few years ago and the math Mason sent us back to do a named endowed scholarship just didn’t add up. The number of years times the amount we wanted it to pay out per year was somehow 50% less than what they were asking for.

Can’t remember the exact numbers now but I remember it being something like we wanted to pay out 2k per year over 10 years and they were asking for 40k or something for a named scholarship and we had no say in the requirements or who it went to.

This sounds completely Mason.

 

[sleeperpick]

This sounds completely Mason.

They were complete pieces of shit regarding this topic.

 

[GMUgemini]

They were complete pieces of shit regarding this topic.

That's a shame, especially for an honorarium. I've only ever worked on the donation side of a non-profit one time and you'd never catch us dead forcing conditions on an honorarium donation.

 

[sleeperpick]

That's a shame, especially for an honorarium. I've only ever worked on the donation side of a non-profit one time and you'd never catch us dead forcing conditions on an honorarium donation.

Like tblack said they were making outrageous requests. Just pour in money to them each year to endow it and then that’s it, no choice in winner, no choice in qualifications of winner, etc. The responses we got back seemed rather cold for the situation as well. Very disappointing. We were a bunch of 23 years olds trying to do something good and it felt like a slap in the face. We could have done the scholarship privately for cheaper if we went that route.

 

[mkaufman1]

Mason half a**'ing something and not communicating clearly? Pissing off alumni that are trying to be engaged?

Never ever heard of it.

 

[Pablo]

Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
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38m

Sources: Certain power conference programs in college basketball are offering approximately 33% less than normal for guarantee games. Another effect of the coronavirus.




Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein
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44m

The Big Sky is shortening its conference schedule to 16 games in an effort to save its programs money. This will lead to more opportunities for guarantee games in November and December. Another effect of the coronavirus.


Big Sky Basketball Teams to Play 16-Game Conference Schedule in 2020-21 Season
FARMINGTON, Utah (May 22, 2020) - The Big Sky’s women’s and men’s basketball teams will compete in a 16-game conference schedule during the 2020-21 season, the conference office announced today. The...
bigskyconf.com

"The composite 2020-21 Big Sky Conference basketball schedules, which will tip off on or after New Year’s Eve, will be released at a later date. Geographic proximity will be one of the criteria to determine which six opponents each school plays twice and which four opponents each school plays once.

The previously approved 2020-21 conference schedule was a 20-game double-round robin slate that began with two games in early December and resumed after Christmas. Each institution can determine whether it will replace the four fewer conference games in 2020-21 with non-conference matchups."

 

[Pablo]

Brett McMurphy
@Brett_McMurphy
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May 26

Appalachian State is eliminating men’s soccer, men’s tennis & men’s indoor track & field, sources told
@Stadium

 

[gmutom]

Appalachian State is eliminating men’s soccer, men’s tennis & men’s indoor track & field...

Hmm, so are they no longer hot, hot hot?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVENWl8uBeg&t=11s

 

[Pablo]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/05/25/georgetown-maryland-virginia-reopen-coronavirus/:
'"In Northern Virginia, the public George Mason University, with 37,000 students, intends to have 'face-to-face instruction to the extent that we can safely do so,' said Anne Holton, GMU interim president. Officials are identifying spaces on campus where sick students could be isolated and figuring out when and where students and faculty members should be required to wear masks."

Will fans be required to wear masks at EBA? Will the green and gold rooms be open?