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— The Ivy League (@IvyLeague) June 10, 2020
Sports Illustrated has a story under the headline, NCAA Committee Passes Six-Week Football Preseason Plan that begins this way:
The 2020 college football season took a major step toward an on-time start on Thursday when the NCAA's College Football Oversight Committee passed a six-week plan that would allow football activities to resume in mid-July.
According to published reports, the four-phase plan will allow coaches to begin having contact with their players on July 13, with training camps beginning on Aug. 7.
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While the NCAA is going in one direction, at least one other college sports governing group is considering some revolutionary changes as a result of the pandemic.
The California Community College Athletic Association has drawn up and approved three contingency plans, one of which has its football season beginning in February. Here are the plans, re-posted from the site (LINK):
CONVENTIONAL PLAN •Cross country, football, women’s golf, soccer, women’s volleyball, water polo and wrestling will compete during the fall. Competition will begin on Sept. 11 except for football (Sept. 26) and will allow for 75% of the maximum number of contests currently permitted. The season, including any regional championships, will end by Nov. 25.• All the remaining sports (badminton, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball, men’s golf, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, and men’s volleyball) will start competing on Mar. 1 and finish by May 22.
CONTACT/NON-CONTACT PLAN• Cross country, women’s golf, swimming and diving, and women’s volleyball – each considered as Non-Contact or minimal contact sports – will begin competition in mid-September and conclude by Nov. 25. Sports will be permitted 70% of their current maximum number of contests.• Basketball, football, soccer, water polo and wrestling would begin competition on Feb. 13 and finish by April 17 while all other sports will start competing on April 10 and end by June 23. Volleyball will move to the spring and start competition on Feb. 13, if it is deemed to be unsafe to compete in the fall.
CONTINGENCY PLAN• Only cross country and women’s golf will stay in the fall and all others will go to the spring with regular-season competition capped at 70% of current levels. Basketball, football, soccer, women’s volleyball, water polo and wrestling will start competition in early February and finish by April 17 while the remaining sports will start on April 10 and end by June 23.
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Dartmouth News has a posting under the headline Dartmouth Issues New Face-Covering Policy for Employees. (LINK)
From the story:
To reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, Dartmouth now requires all persons to wear cloth face coverings at all times when using or accessing shared or communal spaces at any Dartmouth worksite and also when a minimum of 6 feet of physical distancing is difficult to maintain.
The College's COVID-19 page also includes this:
All persons accessing Dartmouth facilities or worksites are expected to comply with this policy, without exception. Anyone not wearing a face covering as expected will be asked to leave the facility immediately; will be subject to corrective action or disciplinary process as appropriate for failure to comply with Dartmouth policy; and may lose any privileges or ability to access Dartmouth facilities.
Green Alert Take: Whether there will be Ivy League football in the fall is yet to be determined. What is clear, however, is that if there is football this fall BGA Premium's approach to covering the team will have to evolve. After 15 years of practically embedding with the Big Green my access to the players and coaches figures to be dramatically and understandably cut back.
Subscription enrollment for BGA Premium has generally begun on or about July 1, but because of uncertainty surrounding both the season and my ability to provide the kind of seven-days-a-week coverage I have in the past this year's subscription renewal won't begin until August 1 at the earliest and terms may be adjusted.
If you are one of the few eager readers who has already subscribed for the 2020 season and it is not played, your subscription will of course be refunded. It would be a huge help if those who were waiting for the new cycle to begin could hold off until more is known both about the season and my ability to deliver what I promise.
More information will be posted on BGA Daily as it develops. Thank you.
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EXTRA POINT
It's an exciting day in these parts as we head up to the Burlington, Vt., area to pick up our '84 VW Westfalia Vanagon camper. We've had it for 26 years and while we have had it regularly serviced as needed, this time we handed it over to a dedicated VW bus mechanic with instructions to make it as dependable as a 36-year-old vehicle can be. That meant going over all the hoses, belts, nuts, bolts and the rest, and replacing anything that even hints at giving us trouble.
After three weeks or so the work is done and the report we got from the mechanic was, "I would drive it to California now."
Keeping in mind, it was a mechanic who can fix things saying that and not someone who makes his living (such as it is) typing, we're optimistic that we can be a lot more confident hitting the road in the bus than we were before. (Which was not confident at all ;-)
