Corona Virus And Playoff Games

[nmcorm83]

Sorry - posted this without noticing someone beat me to it earlier...

Students have been told to not come back from Spring Break and "attend" classes remotely. Not sure what that means for athletics. Here's an excerpt of the announcement:

Most significantly, we will move to virtual instruction. We are asking faculty to begin that transition now so that after spring break all instruction – for the rest of the semester – will be online. We will be asking all undergraduate students and many professional degree students to leave campus at the start of spring break and to remain at their permanent home residence, completing their semesters remotely. (When essential, we will honor requests for exemptions).

[marty]

Sorry - posted this without noticing someone beat me to it earlier...

Students have been told to not come back from Spring Break and "attend" classes remotely. Not sure what that means for athletics. Here's an excerpt of the announcement:

Most significantly, we will move to virtual instruction. We are asking faculty to begin that transition now so that after spring break all instruction – for the rest of the semester – will be online. We will be asking all undergraduate students and many professional degree students to leave campus at the start of spring break and to remain at their permanent home residence, completing their semesters remotely. (When essential, we will honor requests for exemptions).

Evacuate Ithaca.  If no one is in town no one will be infected.

The occupy somewhere else movement?

[redice]

Sorry - posted this without noticing someone beat me to it earlier...

Students have been told to not come back from Spring Break and "attend" classes remotely. Not sure what that means for athletics. Here's an excerpt of the announcement:

Most significantly, we will move to virtual instruction. We are asking faculty to begin that transition now so that after spring break all instruction – for the rest of the semester – will be online. We will be asking all undergraduate students and many professional degree students to leave campus at the start of spring break and to remain at their permanent home residence, completing their semesters remotely. (When essential, we will honor requests for exemptions).

Evacuate Ithaca.  If no one is in town no one will be infected.

The occupy somewhere else movement?

About as logical as the rest this nonsense.

[cth95]

This is getting ridiculous.  The annual charity tournament I was supposed to play in this weekend consisting of local pick-up hockey players like myself just got cancelled.  I'm sure the dense population around Middlebury, VT is a real hotbed for risk.

We play at the public rink, not the college.  I also just saw Middlebury College has not only cancelled classes like Cornell, they have also cancelled all spring sports until further notice.

[Swampy]

the mayor told everyone to go home this afternoon as well.

Makes perfect sense, especially in the Trump era. Mayor declares martial law and sends Ithaca police, backed by mobs of townie vigilantes, to kick all studentS out of their apartments and send them home to Westchester. Their leases on their apartments are still in effect, so the students must still send in the rent or forfeit their security deposits.

To make up for the hit on the local economy, the mayor initiates public works projects and builds a wall around Tompkins County.

What could possibly go wrong?

[Trotsky]

the mayor told everyone to go home this afternoon as well.

Makes perfect sense, especially in the Trump era. Mayor declares martial law and sends Ithaca police, backed by mobs of townie vigilantes, to kick all studentS out of their apartments and send them home to Westchester. Their leases on their apartments are still in effect, so the students must still send in the rent or forfeit their security deposits.

To make up for the hit on the local economy, the mayor initiates public works projects and builds a wall around Tompkins County.

What could possibly go wrong?

Those wetbacks from Elmira, that's what!

[upprdeck]

So if Cornell gets to rd 1 in Albany probably no fans.. Wonder what happens in Allentown.

[Trotsky]

Albany has banned fans?

[adamw]

I'd put the odds of having fans at Lake Placid or any NCAA games at 0.47%

math

[jtwcornell91]

So I was thinking these steps were overreaction, but the situation seems to be deteriorating rapidly, and large gatherings have been banned in many places, so I think these recommendations are now coming from the health authorities.  The pro hockey leagues in Germany have cancelled (not just no fans, no games) the rest of their playoffs, because several states were banning gatherings of over 1000 people.  I would guess that the average attendee is not at much risk of exposure, maybe interacting closely with 5-10 other people.  But multiply that by four or five thousand, and the odds of some transmission occurring are a lot higher.  So it seems like it's in the interest of jurisdictions to cancel events, even if it's not in the interest of individuals to skip them.

Interestingly, RIT has not cancelled classes yet, although there's been a lot of contingency planning about what we'd do if we had to.  Given that we have a lot of online courses already (like mine), we're probably better suited to pull it off than most universities.

[marty]

Albany has banned fans?

No and speculation is king in the state Capital.  

Jim's observation that he is attending a concert at "The Egg" is a hopeful sign.  That venue isn't a stone's throw from the Times Union Center, but a hard slap shot would make it.

[CU2007]

How realistic is it that you could keep some of these events open and just ensure people spread out a bit? Like some sort of rule that you can only sell 25% of the tickets of the usual capacity. Something like that

[Trotsky]

Albany has banned fans?

No and speculation is king in the state Capital.  

Jim's observation that he is attending a concert at "The Egg" is a hopeful sign.  That venue isn't a stone's throw from the Times Union Center, but a hard slap shot would make it.

For reference.

The longest ice hockey pass is 275.63 m (904.33 ft), and was achieved by Zach Lamppa and Tom Chorske (both USA) on Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, on 20 November 2018.

[billhoward]

I came to this thread to post how it's a shame we (fans, alumni fans) can't come to Ithaca and get in to watch what will be one of the best Cornell sports weekends ever, with MHockey, WHockey and MLax ranked 1, 1 and 2 in the nation, all playing national caliber opponents.

But some of the let's-blame/kill-the lawyers reaction here and similar comments is overboard. Fear of legal liability is a concern but Cornell is also acting in the interest of public safety. Ithaca may not have any/many cases of Covid-19, but with fans coming in from everywhere, the odds suggest somebody might be a carrier, and all of a sudden of the other 5,000 hockey-hockey-lax fans spread it further. Who'd want to sit next to a fan coming in from New Rochelle?

I'd like to push our unhappiness in another direction: Get Cornell to add a reverse angle camera in Lynah so we can see better than if we were there in person. Nobody ever knows what's happening in the corner near the band.

Lastly, you can see lax game sort of okay from the top level of the parking garage.

[upprdeck]

The camera experience could vastly improved at Lynah for very little cost.  You could add some remote controlled cameras or even a couple at center ice pointing back towards each goal and that would add a lot to what you can see.