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RPI 2021-22: Picking Up Where We Left Off

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Sorry hit post before I was finished. ***come up with and follow a plan. Keeping the classrooms open and the students and safe as healthy and safe as is possible has to be the primary goal. How many icu hospitalizations or deaths would be acceptable? I get it we are all frustrated and have had enough. But we have no concept of what it’s like to be an ICU nurse or ER doctor or school bus driver. We will get through this and we will be a better people for our patience, diligence, and willingness to care for each other. Sorry for ranting.
 
25+years said:
Sorry hit post before I was finished. ***come up with and follow a plan. Keeping the classrooms open and the students and safe as healthy and safe as is possible has to be the primary goal. How many icu hospitalizations or deaths would be acceptable? I get it we are all frustrated and have had enough. But we have no concept of what it’s like to be an ICU nurse or ER doctor or school bus driver. We will get through this and we will be a better people for our patience, diligence, and willingness to care for each other. Sorry for ranting.
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Please explain to me how allowing the team to move a UVM home game to an away game in another state - invariably INCREASING their risk of exposure - is somehow a meritorious plan?
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
Please explain to me how allowing the team to move a UVM home game to an away game in another state - invariably INCREASING their risk of exposure - is somehow a meritorious plan?
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Wicked - I have to recuse myself from commenting since i have spent lots of time in the past 50 years as an ER physician and Jen has been an ICU nurse.
 
I cannot rationalize why that game was moved. That decision made no sense to me either. But in the context of the end of the holiday break (and apparently a rise in the number of positive cases on the team) I think the thinking is that the campus will likely see lots of cases in the coming weeks if they bring students back. You can try and control who has access to the campus and the students while school is in session. Once students go home, that control is totally lost. We don’t know what school officials know at any given point in time. I think many decisions (not just on the RPI campus but across the country) are made to try and meet people half way. To try and meet the virus half way, actually. In China they get 3 cases and tell people they cannot leave home. Millions of people not even able to get food. And the virus is stopped cold Then you have places where you let people do what they want and we have every conceivable position in between. I would not want to be the one making the decision what to allow and what not to allow for an organization. One thing I think is a certainty. SAJ is not making these decisions all on her own. Don’t you think the counties, the healthcare system, the state, the CDC, or other entities also are taken into consideration? My point is: if I were in her shoes, I am not sure I would do things much differently. As much as I don’t like it.
 
25+years said:
I cannot rationalize why that game was moved. That decision made no sense to me either. But in the context of the end of the holiday break (and apparently a rise in the number of positive cases on the team) I think the thinking is that the campus will likely see lots of cases in the coming weeks if they bring students back. You can try and control who has access to the campus and the students while school is in session. Once students go home, that control is totally lost. We don’t know what school officials know at any given point in time. I think many decisions (not just on the RPI campus but across the country) are made to try and meet people half way. To try and meet the virus half way, actually. In China they get 3 cases and tell people they cannot leave home. Millions of people not even able to get food. And the virus is stopped cold Then you have places where you let people do what they want and we have every conceivable position in between. I would not want to be the one making the decision what to allow and what not to allow for an organization. One thing I think is a certainty. SAJ is not making these decisions all on her own. Don’t you think the counties, the healthcare system, the state, the CDC, or other entities also are taken into consideration? My point is: if I were in her shoes, I am not sure I would do things much differently. As much as I don’t like it.
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I'm not trying to single you out honestly. It just doesn't make any sense if the stated goal is to keep students "safe" to then move a home game which would have been played in a cavernous empty building from an empty campus 2+ weeks before students were due to return to that campus. If science is driving the decisions, then I need to see the math on that one.... just sayin'.
 
Someone just sent me a text that there may be rink refrigeration issues at the HFH....I'd have to think Sezenack or someone in the know would have heard something if this were true ? If it were true, it might explain the road games....dunno
 
While I can't confirm any issues about the rink at HFH, I can confirm the womens team has been practicing there all week as usual. They are in Providence right now, of course, arrived last night.
 
Wicked Slappaahs said:
I'm not trying to single you out honestly. It just doesn't make any sense if the stated goal is to keep students "safe" to then move a home game which would have been played in a cavernous empty building from an empty campus 2+ weeks before students were due to return to that campus. If science is driving the decisions, then I need to see the math on that one.... just sayin'.
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Wicked -If science was guiding any decisions, then I might have to press the rewind button and go back a bit over the last two years.
 
DavidNardolillo said:
The logic here is probably "get them in while you can." Unfortunate that women's team has already lost two games and freeing up a date later in the season might allow for another game to get squeezed in.
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Since Yale and Brown are travel partners, it will allow Yale to play two games in Troy to make up for their lost game against us this weekend. However they are scheduled to play Union then one night so they would have to spend 3 days in the CD.
 
I see that Dartmouth has rescheduled their games against us and Union. Any word on the rescheduled date with Harvard? Could the Beanpot again play a part in rescheduling with Harvard?
 
fr. joe said:
I see that Dartmouth has rescheduled their games against us and Union. Any word on the rescheduled date with Harvard? Could the Beanpot again play a part in rescheduling with Harvard?
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The Beanpot is without a doubt playing a role in that rescheduling. Harvard is always a huge pain in the ass with the Beanpot because they only want to play 1 game in the weekends before a Beanpot game (doesn't seem to make a difference considering that they're always in the consolation game!)
 
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The Beanpot is without a doubt playing a role in that rescheduling. Harvard is always a huge pain in the *** with the Beanpot because they only want to play 1 game in the weekends before a Beanpot game (doesn't seem to make a difference considering that they're always in the consolation game!)
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And more often than not, we seem to be a team involved in the scheduling difficulties.
 
sezenack said:
The Beanpot is without a doubt playing a role in that rescheduling. Harvard is always a huge pain in the *** with the Beanpot because they only want to play 1 game in the weekends before a Beanpot game (doesn't seem to make a difference considering that they're always in the consolation game!)
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I always wonder if there are special Ivy League rules involved in creating this situation, e.g., the number of games that a team can play in any 7 day span in the regular season. I remember Ralph posting a future ECAC schedule a year or two ago and Union was going to draw the short straw for the Beanpot reschedule in a future season . . . but maybe that was scheduled to happen in 20-21. :-/
 
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