Brandeis cancels fall athletics.
Do we know who else in the Greater Boston area also canceled?
https://d3soccer.com/notables/2020/COVID-Status-of-Play has a pretty comprehensive list on the D3 side of things.
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West Coast Conference delays competition until Sept 24.
https://wccsports.com/news/2020/7/16/general-wcc-statement-on-fall-competition.aspx
90% California schools will be online unless infection improves. Will the rest of the country follow this approach as daily cases surpass 70,000?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/california-schools-reopening-newsom.html
https://calmatters.org/education/2020/07/california-schools-shut-down-reopening/
The NEWMAC and CCC both canceled.
NE10 D2 canceled as well.
MAAC(D1) and LEC(D3) conferences cancel fall athletic seasons.
Clemson is discontinuing Men’s Track & Field and Men’s Cross Country
https://www.wyff4.com/article/clemson-to-discontinue-mens-track-and-field-and-cross-country-program/34589998
Add Stanford to the list of schoosl bringing back sports that they had previously cancelled:
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All still not forgiven, although I think this was certainly a good development. I know wrestling had the money raised to be fully self funding a long time ago, and that should have been the end of the conversation about cutting them as soon as it happened.
Stanford was “disappointed” that 2 lawsuits were filed even though they were far along in the talks to possibly reinstate.
The rest of us were “disappointed” that you chose to cancel 11 programs without getting input, claiming the reasons were financial when in reality the amount of money involved was a rounding error in Stanford’s budget. I’m guessing that alumni threatening to punish Stanford for this decision was not a rounding error. Good for them.
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Further development on Stanford wrestling. They just did a big (and expensive if the leaked info is close to true) hire as a new head coach. The leaked info also said it came with a 5 year guarantee.
The new coach is from Cornell. He took over that program almost 30 years ago and took it from an afterthought in the Ivy Legue to one that has finished in the top 10 as a team at D1’s the last 10+ years with multiple national champions. They are competing for recruits against Penn State and Iowa, not Harvard and Brown.
The best thing about this from Stanford wrestling’s point of view is that he is the perfect hire for them. He is fine as a coach. But he excels at recruiting, fund raising, and hiring great assistants who can do the “on the ground coaching”. If he gives them the 5 years in his contract, my guess is that in 5 years not only are they fully endowed, they are one of the best funded programs in the country.
That doesn’t give them guaranteed safety. But if they are flush with cash, and are adding to diversity rather than detracting from it (wrestling rooms overall are mostly kids with bluecollar backgrounds, it is definitely not a rich white kid sport) that is about all you can ask for.
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