Posted on 04/29/2020 6:27:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
If I were an incoming freshman at a university that had not yet declared they were opening in late August, I would take a gap year.
Why pay full tuition, at a new school, for which you will only get online courses?
One of our grandsons is finishing his freshman second semester on line. He still doesn’t know if his Cal State branch will be open or not. That is negatively impacting an internship and a job this summer.
He has two younger friends supposedly being graduated from high school in May with pending athletic scholarships. They and their parents are having a lot of sleepless nights and loud discussions during the day. Of course their potential colleges have no idea if they will have football, basketball or baseball this school year. They were tendered big buck scholarships before the CV storm hit.
My daughter is a Boilermaker, entering her junior year this fall. We are very glad that Mitch is leading, when it comes to getting this country back on its feet.
I've seen a lot of this on various social media.
Of course, that will impact other states that play CA teams. Gonzaga announced plans to reopen the campus for the fall semester, and the Zags play in the WCC, where 7 of the 10 members are CA schools.
So Gov Gruesome is not only going to $crew California kids who are good enough to get scholar ships, but the kids from other schools re no shows by Cal teams.
“California is going to play a major role in sports. IIRC, Governor Newsom has put a halt on sports in CA for the rest of the year.”
“Of course, that will impact other states that play CA teams. Gonzaga announced plans to reopen the campus for the fall semester, and the Zags play in the WCC, where 7 of the 10 members are CA schools.”
We've got two road trips planned later this year (November-December): Austin (U of TX), and Phoenix (Texas Tech). We're showing up in the top-5 in everyone's too early top-25. We have 3 announced for the NBA draft, none of whom have hired an agent. We're expecting 2, if not all 3, will return for one more year.
It's more difficult to schedule games with Power Conference teams, as the trend has been for these conferences to expand their conference schedules.
If the delay is only until 12/31/2020, the WCC can schedule accordingly, by starting the conference season in 1/2021. Social distancing is usually not a problem for CA schools, with the exception of St. Mary's. The only game that guarantees a sell out for the CA schools is when Gonzaga comes to town. (chuckle) For most of these schools, to buy a ticket for the Zags, you must buy a package of 2-3 additional games.
Jocks, artists, business people are starting to revolt out here in California as well as beach people and hikers.
We have counties with zero to maybe one case of CV and no fatalities. Why should they go into bankruptcy because of an elite out of touch governor.
I would love to see such a matchup, just because 'Zaga has a rather storied program--one of the West Coast elites. We rarely get to see that kind of a game, and I hope that whoever schedules such things will strongly consider it.
Still a far cry when I was a UTEP season ticket holder in the 80s. The WAC schedule was ferocious, the equation to win the league was "win your home games, split your road games." There were many nights when my ears were ringing from the crowd noise.
Other problem is that the Zags play in a top preseason tournament every year, such as Maui or the Bahamas. Those cupcakes give the coaches the opportunity to develop their team, albeit against lesser competition.
Living in Texas, I haven't seen a Zags game on campus since 1976. We make it a road trip when they play within a day's drive of Dallas. Our trips over the past 5+ years have been to Stillwater, Wichita, Omaha, College Station, and (my favorite) Nashville.
The trip to Nashville was my first trip with "my boys": 2 sons and grandson, who had just turned 6. Nana wasn't thrilled, but his mom trusted me. We spent 4 days in Nashville, and he was plucked out of the stands to participate in the halftime "entertainment", a slam-dunk contest.
Next thing I knew, he had his own thread and moniker on the GU hoops blog...lol.
Last November's trip to College Station was special, too. After the game, he had his picture taken with most of the players, including his favorite Zag, Killian Tillie. He also reconnected with Corey Kispert, who gave him personalized instruction during our trip to Spokane. It was heart warming to see how Corey remembered him, and they spent a great few minutes together.
Back to your comment, I suspect Illinois may be our next B1G opponent. One of their assistant coaches spent a few years at Gonzaga before rejoining Brad Underwood.
Daniels will be 75 in 2024. Too late.
Dammit! Plus, being a president of a major university has far fewer headaches, and more pay, than being POTUS.
I really enjoyed your post, even though long it was very informative and told of many good times/stories for you.
I was a baby boiler in 1980. There was a universal class everyone was required to take: Communications 101.
Hopefully it is still there and has only been refined to be even better. Every college and university should have a class like this that makes it so very clear how easily bias and bad reporting enter into the comm process. How much of our comm is non-verbal.
That comm class alone showed the great need for students to be active and present in class. Online should be optional - esp. for elective / easy type classes but there are at least 50-75% of classes that truly need interactive face-to-face interactions, online will never equal this imho.
If anyone could handle being POTUS at that age it would be Mitch Daniels!
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