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Post by larrytitan on Feb 2, 2022 8:51:29 GMT -5
And the other four games?
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Post by Rogobob77 on Feb 2, 2022 9:11:51 GMT -5
And the other four games? Making up a game between travel partners is relatively easy since there is a short distance between the schools. That’s why the HL policy is that those games should be made up if possible. It’s a lot harder for a school like say Green Bay to come to Detroit on a Monday or Tuesday and then head in a different direction for a Thursday/Saturday swing. Would make it very difficult for student athletes to get any time in the classroom if you tried to make up the bulk of these missed games.
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Post by Commissioner on Feb 2, 2022 11:05:15 GMT -5
And the other four games? Making up a game between travel partners is relatively easy since there is a short distance between the schools. That’s why the HL policy is that those games should be made up if possible. It’s a lot harder for a school like say Green Bay to come to Detroit on a Monday or Tuesday and then head in a different direction for a Thursday/Saturday swing. Would make it very difficult for student athletes to get any time in the classroom if you tried to make up the bulk of these missed games. The HL might have been able to do some more makeups with an aggressive policy of rescheduling right from the start, but whatever chances were there have largely disappeared. Believe it or not, the HL tournament starts in less than a month. There aren't a lot of free dates left. OU at Detroit should definitely have been played, on Monday, January 24 (OU played UM-Dearborn instead), Tuesday, February 15 (OU rejected), or Wednesday, February 16 (OU presumably would reject.) The Robert Morris game could probably have been played on Wednesday, January 19 (both teams played the prior weekend; Bob Morris was then played at Fort Wayne on Friday, January 21, and could probably have stopped in Detroit to play. Since OU wouldn't play us on the 24th, Green Bay probably could have played us on Tuesday the 25th--they played in Green Bay the prior weekend and then in Youngstown on the 27th. IUPUI is playing at YSU on February 19 and home on February 24th. They could probably play in Detroit on Monday, February 21. In other words, while difficult, it could be done for a lot of these games. The drag on students of squeezing these games in would have been real, but I suspect the real reason for the lack of enthusiasm was financial. Attendance would be very low, and most Horizon schools seem to have adopted anti-covid policies that will assure it remains exceptionally low, even by normal HL standards; you have another night or two of hotel room each time; meals; costs for bus and driver. The bottom line is that the league and its members, for various reasons, just didn't care enough to make them up. You can decide if you agree or disagree. It had also occurred to me that the Titans might have tried to schedule Eastern Michigan for a make up game for both schools, but the way the MAC and HL schedule conference games, that was almost impossible, unless one school agreed to play games on consecutive days (you know, like they all do in November tournaments). You could even have made it a home and home.
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Post by Rogobob77 on Mar 8, 2022 12:55:16 GMT -5
Saw this statistic today: of 3,241 D-I MBB conference games scheduled for the 2021-22 season, 3,166 were played (a 97.7% play rate).
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