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RPI 2020 Off-season: Off-season Cancelled

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Many/most deposits for fall enrollment are due the first week of May. Administrators will soon have a very real understanding of what will happen in the fall.
 
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Today is 21 April 2020. There are 165 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 3 October 2020 for the start of next season.
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
Many/most deposits for fall enrollment are due the first week of May. Administrators will soon have a very real understanding of what will happen in the fall.
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Perhaps, but that's only for freshmen. I would expect a fair number to submit deposits and then request deferral for a year. Meanwhile, the upperclassmen will wait and see. If it looks like another on-line semester then there will be a second wave of leave of absence requests.

In some ways that may be good for traditional colleges. It's hard enough to justify the expense of college, but if mainstream students found online to be an acceptable alternative then the long-term enrollment losses would be even greater.
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
This is certainly a valid concern. I can tell you that schools here locally (my info is not from RPI) are actively weighing the viability of 3 basic scenarios:
1. Full enrollment on campus 2. No students on campus 3. A hybrid of limited /small classes, perhaps composed of upperclassmen, with underclassmen studying remotely for '20-21.

Given the pains we all endured with the abrupt end to our season i shudder to write this, but given the risks and public attention I think the only way #1 is possible is if the numbers of COVID cases drops markedly AND if a reliable/accurate test was available for incoming students. There has been a lot of the news in recent days of the unreliability of the assay tests that are now flooding the market. FDA approval is not able to quickly evaluate the quality and accuracy of the reported 90 + different testing products now on the market (according to Dr. Fauci).
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Watching the news everyday (what else is there to do) I was pretty sure that we would have what we needed to be back to "normal" bu August. But these protests and some states opening early give me serious doubt that we will be opening anything by August.
I hope I am wrong.
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
Watching the news everyday (what else is there to do) I was pretty sure that we would have what we needed to be back to "normal" bu August. But these protests and some states opening early give me serious doubt that we will be opening anything by August.
I hope I am wrong.
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I agree completely. I heard the Notre Dame A.D. on ESPN this morning and while the primary focus was on football he said paraphrasing.... " there will be no fall sports at all if there are no students on campus." That's a pretty serious statement given that 90% of their revenue is from football.

I guess we can only hope for the best as we head into summer (although the weather here lately feels more like March than April)
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
I agree completely. I heard the Notre Dame A.D. on ESPN this morning and while the primary focus was on football he said paraphrasing.... " there will be no fall sports at all if there are no students on campus." That's a pretty serious statement given that 90% of their revenue is from football.

I guess we can only hope for the best as we head into summer (although the weather here lately feels more like March than April)
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Yesterday I heard a rumor that the NCAA was going to move football season to the spring semester. Given that my sources are hardly plugged in to anything you can probably take it with a grain of salt, and there would be many obstacles to overcome in order for it to happen, but whisperings are out there. Given football's role in generating $$$ for massive D-I athletic departments you can expect them to do whatever is necessary to salvage a good portion of it.
 
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engineerhockeyfan said:
Watching the news everyday (what else is there to do) I was pretty sure that we would have what we needed to be back to "normal" bu August. But these protests and some states opening early give me serious doubt that we will be opening anything by August.
I hope I am wrong.
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I just don't see a return to normalcy for a long time. There was an article yesterday that indicated Disney won't reopen until 2021. If you believe social distancing has/is working, what has changed about this virus to give anyone the idea reopening won't take us back toward square one? The thing we all need to remember is it isn't just the number of people dying that is a problem, but health care workers are not society's whipping boy here. Doctors and nurses and techs did not sign up to put their lives on the line over and over again. And they did not plan on working long shifts and having to live away from their families with no end in sight for a year or two. Not to do that so people could go to the beach or a sporting event.
 
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25+years said:
I just don't see a return to normalcy for a long time. There was an article yesterday that indicated Disney won't reopen until 2021. If you believe social distancing has/is working, what has changed about this virus to give anyone the idea reopening won't take us back toward square one? The thing we all need to remember is it isn't just the number of people dying that is a problem, but health care workers are not society's whipping boy here. Doctors and nurses and techs did not sign up to put their lives on the line over and over again. And they did not plan on working long shifts and having to live away from their families with no end in sight for a year or two. Not to do that so people could go to the beach or a sporting event.
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Well for starters, most are talking about phasing in a "restart" with the understanding that social distancing, mask wearing and good hygiene would need to continue as proven mitigation. This in conjunction with testing as well as furthering advancements in treatments and ultimately a vaccine.

College athletics is obviously waaay far down the list right now. But if we don't at least partially start to reopen this economy, there won't be any jobs for people to go back to.

RPI just announced they are furloughing 300 employees. https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/RPI-to-furlough-hundreds-15215610.php
 
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rpi82 said:
Yesterday I heard a rumor that the NCAA was going to move football season to the spring semester. Given that my sources are hardly plugged in to anything you can probably take it with a grain of salt, and there would be many obstacles to overcome in order for it to happen, but whisperings are out there. Given football's role in generating $$$ for massive D-I athletic departments you can expect them to do whatever is necessary to salvage a good portion of it.
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The number one question is when students return to campuses in some form (upperclassmen on campus with underclassmen remotely studying ?) Until that question is answered with certainty, the sports planning will be on hold.
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
The number one question is when students return to campuses in some form (upperclassmen on campus with underclassmen remotely studying ?) Until that question is answered with certainty, the sports planning will be on hold.
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Planning for shortened hockey season already in motion. Sure smells like fall semesters will be held online.

https://www.uscho.com/2020/04/21/me...ans-for-possible-shortened-season-in-2020-21/
 
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Wicked Slappaahs said:
Planning for shortened hockey season already in motion. Sure smells like fall semesters will be held online.

https://www.uscho.com/2020/04/21/me...ans-for-possible-shortened-season-in-2020-21/
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The conferences wouldn't be doing their jobs if they weren't prepared for worst case scenarios. Just because planning has started in case of a delay to the start of the season does not make it more likely than it was yesterday.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/RPI_Hockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RPI_Hockey</a> Announces 2019-20 Awards <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RPIHockey?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RPIHockey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ECACHockey?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ECACHockey</a> <a href="https://t.co/s9HrpmMHoo">https://t.co/s9HrpmMHoo</a></p>— RPI Athletics (@RPIAthletics) <a href="https://twitter.com/RPIAthletics/status/1252674069708902400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Just the awards part:

Reilly, a senior captain and defenseman from Toronto, Ont., was also named Top Defenseman, Best Defensive Player and Ben Mayo Most Inspirational Player. Savory was the team's Top Goalie, while senior Todd Burgess earned Top Forward honors. Classmate Chase Zieky was the Best Offensive Player and blueliner Cory Babichuk was the Freshman of the Year, with sophomore Ture Linden picking up Most Improve Player honors. The Community Service and Scholar Athlete Awards went to senior TJ Samec and junior Linden Marshall, respectively, while senior Jake Marrello collected the Unsung Hero Award.
 
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Today is 22 April 2020. There are 164 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 3 October 2020 for the start of next season.
 
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sezenack said:
The conferences wouldn't be doing their jobs if they weren't prepared for worst case scenarios. Just because planning has started in case of a delay to the start of the season does not make it more likely than it was yesterday.
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Remember way back when the first round was to be played in an empty arena and then, well we all know what happened after that....The western schools were late to the party, so to speak. I am concerned places with less of a problem now will take a chance and allow students to go back and sports to follow, leaving places in the east at a disadvantage. I remember when RPI was closing down the WCHA wasn't even mentioning the pandemic. So I am wondering if there will be a season but only for half the schools?
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">. ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/RPI_Hockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RPI_Hockey</a>⁩ Listen to Podcast Episode 5 - Captain Will Reilly and Coach Smith recap the 19-20 season. <a href="https://t.co/Tzfx42hvkq">https://t.co/Tzfx42hvkq</a></p>— Coach Dave Smith (@RPI_HockeyCoach) <a href="https://twitter.com/RPI_HockeyCoach/status/1252921142312079360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It took me almost 10 minutes to actually find it. It's here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...key-womens-hoops/id1505626103?i=1000472205526.
 
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Today is 23 April 2020. There are 163 days until RPI's next game.


This is based upon 3 October 2020 for the start of next season.
 
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RPI gets mentioned by Tucker Carlson last night. In a short clip, he mentions the monies being received by the "wealthiest" colleges in the latest bailout. The good news, we get grouped with the elite wealthy schools such as Harvard, Penn, Yale, Stanford and University of Michigan. The bad news is how he portrays RPI (as a school that most would not even know anything about and as not needing the money since it pays it's President an enormous salary (which he mentions along with showing a picture of SAJ with Barack Obama). Worth a quick view for those who missed it. Wonder how much of this money should go into the Hockey program???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5I-Vs_l9Fs
 
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DrDemento said:
RPI gets mentioned by Tucker Carlson last night. In a short clip, he mentions the monies being received by the "wealthiest" colleges in the latest bailout. The good news, we get grouped with the elite wealthy schools such as Harvard, Penn, Yale, Stanford and University of Michigan. The bad news is how he portrays RPI (as a school that most would not even know anything about and as not needing the money since it pays it's President an enormous salary (which he mentions along with showing a picture of SAJ with Barack Obama). Worth a quick view for those who missed it. Wonder how much of this money should go into the Hockey program???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5I-Vs_l9Fs
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So another stunning fact that doesn't look good …. along with Dr J's pay, in the furloughs that were announced this week the entire hockey staff was included in the furloughs with the one exception being Dave Smith. Yet the money that the Dept of Education has set aside for RPI and other institutions was meant for the Students. The money is specifically for the purpose of refunding housing and food expenses. Not that the Houston renovations are ever going to take place but that money should have been more then enough to cover all of the employees that were furloughed.
 
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