Dan Wolken: NCAA should cancel tournament column

[PsychoticGerbil]

Wolken is mad at the NCAA and wants the tournament shut down to hurt them. He’s just pissed off because he feels the Wiseman decision cost Memphis “a title”.

Just another pissed off former Memphis beat writer.

Mad at the NCAA?! That's this forum's job!! [roll]

 

[BigBlueFanGA]

Moron...

Not really, the pressure is mounting. The WHO just officially designated covid-19 as a pandemic. Let the real panic begin.

Oops, I misread that. I thought it said no fans not no tournament.

 

[Ryan Lemonds Hair]

UNC slurper?

Probably so UNC can say their NCAA tournament streak is alive.

 

[Ben101er]

This crap is getting out of hand. There have been 12,000 deaths this flu season, even though there is a vaccine, and only 22 deaths from coronavirus, which has no vaccine. If the media concentrated their efforts on flu, nobody would leave their homes. Ridiculous.

 

[Ryan Lemonds Hair]

Maybe that is why I can't even buy toilet paper.

This crap is getting out of hand. There have been 12,000 deaths this flu season, even though there is a vaccine, and only 22 deaths from coronavirus, which has no vaccine. If the media concentrated their efforts on flu, nobody would leave their homes. Ridiculous.

 

[Ben101er]

Maybe that is why I can't even buy toilet paper.

They have great pricing on it, and plenty in stock, at Sams Club.

 

[Ryan Lemonds Hair]

They have great pricing on it, and plenty in stock, at Sams Club.

Not at the Sam's in Cookeville. I ordered some yesterday and got an email saying they were out.

 

[HerrosHeroes]

First of all, I'm so tired of the hot take ******** that dominates sports talk now.

Second, there are so many steps you could take instead of canceling it. Even setting aside what we don't know about the virus and how bad it might get, the logic behind canceling it altogether at this point doesn't hold up.

I don't say that from a "don't take away the thing I like" perspective, but just from a rationality standpoint. You could play with no fans. You could play at fewer venues. You could choose sites/cities that could accommodate multiple rounds being played there to reduce travel.

If we can keep 3,000 people on a cruise ship for weeks and then send them to military bases for two week quarantines, we can get 800 basketball players together to play a tournament on the weekends.

Hell, send them all to Harvard's campus. It's built perfectly to accommodate students already. There are countless colleges in the immediate area with gyms for practice and games, and they wouldn't encounter anyone else right now with school dismissing.

Yeah, but, but UK has won 17 of 20 and 10 of 11 and rallied down 18 at UF with just 10 minutes to go. If we play they may very well win another title...