RIT Cancels 2020-2021 Hockey Season

[jtwcornell91]

https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2020/11/09_RIT-Shutting-Down-Hockey-.php

We just raised the COVID alert level from Yellow to Orange, but it's not clear if this is a result of that, or the Liberty League cancelling winter sports.

[upprdeck]

and the players are pissed. may be a mass exodus from the program.

still unclear to me what the Liberty league has to to do with the Hockey team though.

[dbilmes]

still unclear to me what the Liberty league has to to do with the Hockey team though.

Since RIT competes in the Liberty League in every other sport, apparently the administration felt it didn't want to have the hockey team playing this season while no one else was at the school.

[Trotsky]

and the players are pissed.

[ithacaster]

This could have an impact on us.  Other Liberty League teams include Clarkson, St. Lawrence, RPI, and Union. Clarkson and. St. Lawrence have already said that they still plan on playing.  Union hasn't said that they *won't* play, but they haven't definitively said that they would either.  RPI hasn't really commented.  If RPI and/or Union decide not to play that would mess up the potential ECAC schedule which involves splitting the conference into a New York and New England divisions.

[upprdeck]

so playing a sport for 2-3 months when no kids would be going to class on campus?

[Trotsky]

This could have an impact on us.  Other Liberty League teams include Clarkson, St. Lawrence, RPI, and Union. Clarkson and. St. Lawrence have already said that they still plan on playing.  Union hasn't said that they *won't* play, but they haven't definitively said that they would either.  RPI hasn't really commented.  If RPI and/or Union decide not to play that would mess up the potential ECAC schedule which involves splitting the conference into a New York and New England divisions.

I am 95% sure we will all cancel, particularly since the systemic dumbassery has now been dragged behind the barn, shot in the head, and left to bleed out in the snow as the light dims and the devil approaches through the mist to claim His own.

Nobody's gonna play because there's just not enough money in college hockey to monetize the death.

[upprdeck]

hockey once you remove the fans is not a money maker..  but you are paying scholies in most places anyway so only some travel money is saved by not playing.. but you may drve more tv revenue?

[scoop85]

The Patriot League announced a plan for a 16-game, conference only basketball season beginning January 2nd. Seems likely that Colgate will attempt some semblance of a hockey season. My guess is the "New York Division" structure that was discussed awhile ago is the best shot going forward this year.

[upprdeck]

to play you have to commit to testing.  Rit was going some.. I dont think another 100 a week to play hockey was gonna break them

[jtwcornell91]

to play you have to commit to testing.  Rit was going some.. I dont think another 100 a week to play hockey was gonna break them

RIT has been doing a lot of wastewater testing, which presumably makes the process more efficient by effectively pooling a lot of "tests", but I suspect the strategy breaks down as you get more and more positive results.

[jts15]

I don't see it mentioned here but this came up on local radio recently regarding Union and RPI cancelling some winter sports.  No decision on hockey yet.
https://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/RPI-Union-cancel-Division-III-winter-sports-15714258.php

[upprdeck]

except almost none of the hockey team lives on campus.. and many were not taking classes in person .. testing random kids once a semester when 80% of your kids live off campus is not really gonna catch much.. then add in all the parties that have been going on it is gonna catch up with them at some point.

[redice]

I don't see it mentioned here but this came up on local radio recently regarding Union and RPI cancelling some winter sports.  No decision on hockey yet.
https://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/RPI-Union-cancel-Division-III-winter-sports-15714258.php

Taken from that Albany newspaper article:  "McElroy said ECAC Hockey athletic directors and the Ivy League  presidents each have meetings Tuesday to discuss the future of the  hockey season."  I'm guessing that, since that article was dated Monday, 11/9/20, he was referring to YESTERDAY.....   So, if they came to some type of agreement, an announcement about the ECAC season should be forthcoming very soon!!!  tick toc tick toc tick toc......

[billhoward]

Pulling off even half a season's worth of games would show some continuity to the academic and athletic endeavors of the colleges and universities that keep on going.

OTOH, by the time they become college presidents, most college presidents are risk-averse.