Some teams said to already be withdrawing from NCAA wrestling.....
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This would be the one sport I can see it. When you have to cut weight and get a little dehydrated to make weight your immune system may be down a little. Lose the first match and get into the backside.
If teams withdraw, then the NCAA should be compelled to make the only reasonable response. An asterisk should be placed after the name of the team winning the team championship for this season. 
unless it is Iowa in which case the virus will disappear and all humanity will be restored because once again the good guys are back on topIf teams withdraw, then the NCAA should be compelled to make the only reasonable response. An asterisk should be placed after the name of the team winning the team championship for this season.
At this point, I think it's greater than 50-50 chance NCAA Championship is cancelled.
If the NCAA can get out of its financial obligation to US Bank Stadium due to an act of god clause, it will get canceled. If not, they will probably hold the event and try to recoup some money through the deal with ESPN.
If it does get cancelled it will be because of the pressure on the NCAA to cancel the basketball tournaments. Hopefully it will be a postponement but who knows.
NCAA will fight like hell to not cancel March Madness, as it is the vast majority of their revenue. Could bankrupt them
Imagine they postpone it for a month, Joseph will be up to 225 and Cael will have to petition the NCAA to allow him to wrestle at heavy weight.
I would imagine that NCAA teams have the ability to monitor participant health, practice appropriate social distancing/quarantine, etc. both before and after championship events that risk to themselves, as well as others, could be on the low end.
I continue to assert this crisis is moving so fast there isn't time to consider the impact and make sound well founded decisions. The NBA has now suspended all games due to one player testing positive - really?
We still have a week to go but the chances of one coach, athelete, trainer, roommate, etc... testing positive on one of the top 20 teams with highly ranked wrestlers is certainly there. When it does that team will be toast, then will come the question of, top ranked kids missing from the competition, asterisks for those wrestlers who win a title, and so on.
Given wrestling has closer physical contact than any other sport, litterally drenching themselves in each other's blood, sweat and tears, the avenues for transmission are magnified many fold. This applies to every wrestling room in the country not just tournaments.
Some Dr. will step in with an opinion and put the cabosh on the whole thing and the NCAA administrators will be left with only one choice.
I think the NBA may serve as the first domino, with the inevitable overreaction soon to follow. I think our chances are now 50/50 at best, and can see the sport totally shut down inclusive of all practicing as well. Sad times on multiple fronts, including the real human tragedy if those infected to the social, economic and lifestyle impacts cascading outward.
We still have a week to go but the chances of one coach, athelete, trainer, roommate, etc... testing positive on one of the top 20 teams with highly ranked wrestlers is certainly there. When it does that team will be toast, then will come the question of, top ranked kids missing from the competition, asterisks for those wrestlers who win a title, and so on.
Given wrestling has closer physical contact than any other sport, litterally drenching themselves in each other's blood, sweat and tears, the avenues for transmission are magnified many fold. This applies to every wrestling room in the country not just tournaments.
Some Dr. will step in with an opinion and put the cabosh on the whole thing and the NCAA administrators will be left with only one choice.
I think the NBA may serve as the first domino, with the inevitable overreaction soon to follow. I think our chances are now 50/50 at best, and can see the sport totally shut down inclusive of all practicing as well. Sad times on multiple fronts, including the real human tragedy if those infected to the social, economic and lifestyle impacts cascading outward.
There are now 2 players that are known to have it on 1 team. The NBA did not suspend the league over 1 player they suspended it over the fact that 1 player would spread it his entire team, that team spreads it to the team they’ve played and so forth. I saw a chart on Twitter that basically showed the connection to the Utah Jazz within the last week or so and it would have affected every team. It’s interesting to think about though. I do think the media is hyping it up but would not be shocked if they cancelled the tournament or atleast postponed it. Which would suck for any graduating seniors
Today is the last day of fans at PGA tour events going forward indefinitely.
The NBA ordered all teams that faced Utah in the past 10 days, to self-quarantine for 2 weeks.
If they were to go forward I could see mandatory testing for every wrestler (how long to get results, are tests available,...) as well as having to disinfect the mats between each match. It seems that simply taking one's temperature is an insufficient guage of being contagious.
It is really sad for the sport but you can imagine the 'perceived' risk here, and then there us always the trump card - liability of litigation and lawyers.
That usually is the final nail in the coffin when it comes to influencing administrators decision processes.
Imagine the event going forward, and just one kid with no symptoms wrestling only to test positive later, then his opponent's getting sick, then coming home from spring break and infecting the parents and grandparents, etc.... and someone tracing back a death of a family member to an event where intimate contact was involved not being cancelled while the rest of the world us going nuts cancelling every form of public gathering. If you cant watch a Golf tourney outdoors, can kids really be all over each other?
I think I these cancellations are a huge overreaction but if there is one area where you have to raise the question it is probably wrestling, boxing, MMA,....
It is really sad for the sport but you can imagine the 'perceived' risk here, and then there us always the trump card - liability of litigation and lawyers.
That usually is the final nail in the coffin when it comes to influencing administrators decision processes.
Imagine the event going forward, and just one kid with no symptoms wrestling only to test positive later, then his opponent's getting sick, then coming home from spring break and infecting the parents and grandparents, etc.... and someone tracing back a death of a family member to an event where intimate contact was involved not being cancelled while the rest of the world us going nuts cancelling every form of public gathering. If you cant watch a Golf tourney outdoors, can kids really be all over each other?
I think I these cancellations are a huge overreaction but if there is one area where you have to raise the question it is probably wrestling, boxing, MMA,....
But we don’t know if the policy would cover a coronavirus shutdown. South by Southwest had insurance but the policy turned out not to cover a coronavirus shutdown.
While I do not know for certain, I suspect Bob Anderson is correct. It is highly unlikely that an event the size of the NCAA championships would go forward without adequate insurance and bonds of various types. I suspect Lloyds syndicates and major US and international surety companies are providing the financial guarantees. Perhaps someone with more knowledge than I could comment more precisely.
Exactly Jefe and then you have to think about all the teams the jazz have faced in the last 10 days and who those teams have played after
One HR poster, which I know doesn't mean all HR posters, seemed to post a serious question that if the NCAA's are canceled do they just give the team trophy to Iowa. They really thought that?
It will be cancelled before all competitors are tested.
No way do you prioritize limited test kits for a non-essential wrestling tournament.
Based on? With wrestling anything can happen. I see no way they can award number one to a team without wrestling.
Off subject, I imagine most wrestlers would qualify for a year back under the hardship rule if they don't even get to wrestle NCAAs. Would any of our seniors hypothetically even want to come back? Hall and Cenzo both look super ready to move on. Shak is already in a 6th year. I don't think Cenzo's mom can take another year of watching like she does aha. On the flip side, I bet someone like Lugo would 100% want to ...
Iowa can have the NBA trophy.
They give the trophy to the previous year's champion.
The NCAA gets no additional money for the Wrestling championship and would lose no monies for the cancellation.
Nate Brown didn't get one for missing NCAAs when Billy George concussed him into the next year. (Though IDK if he wanted or applied.)
A blanket hardship waiver merely transfers the lost year to next year's rosters, and complicates scholarship allocations.
I suspect the Illuminati are involved.
It sounds like you have a movie script to start on.
I forgot about the George incident.
I can't find video of it.
But I remember what you're talking about ...... it was implausibly dirty; one of the most classless things I've ever seen in sports.
Well the ACC, big Ten and SEC tournaments were all just cancelled. So let’s see how this affects the NCAAs. As far as team title, who cares who wins it if the tournament doesn’t occur. We as fans lost out. The wrestlers themselves more importantly lost out especially for some of them who may not have made the field without the Olympic redshirts taken. If Iowa wins the team trophy due to ranking then yes give it them for all i care
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