welp, I'm 15 minutes from landing and the SECT announces fans won't be let in starting tomorrow. Awesome.
I understand the decision but I do not understand the timing. The risk of this virus has been known for weeks and nothing was canceled. Nothing was even hinted at until today, on the eve of the tournament. No chance for people to cancel flights, to cancel hotel rooms. It’s wrong imo. If they waited this long, I feel like they should have let people make the choice of whether they should attend or not or at least offer a refund of more than just tickets. Or at least told people who were traveling great distances that this was a possibility earlier in the week. I’m pretty pissed rn but that’s how I feel.
The NBA just suspended their season. Stop being a dipshit about this. Sucks for your travel plans, but come on dude.
that’s fine, but maybe if they floated this possibility a few days ago I could have cancelled? Why do you think that’s an unreasonable ask?
So they should let people still go to games because they didn't give you enough of a heads up, even though it's risking players', coaches', and other fans' health? It sucks, for sure, but this was the absolutely correct call.
I don’t think he’s saying he disagrees with it, just that they should have moved a lot faster and not waited until after the event started.
I mean you definitely would have gotten Corona virus from some Kentucky fan that goes to games in sickness and in health.
I simply wish they would have released a statement saying they were considering this before the start of the tournament, for something that has been ongoing for weeks. As I initially said my main gripe is with the timing. They held out because of money and it’s going to screw a lot of people over.
Should’ve just announced this yesterday If this was the route they wanted to go. Tbh, playing with no fans would’ve been fine. The teams are already in Nashville and have been in the arena practicing, if you’re worried about exposure then you already failed that part.
Congrats to all teams other than #Mississippi Rebels and #Vanderbilt Commodores on their 2020 SEC Tournament Co-Championship
I believe the move has more to do with perception than anything else. If they wouldn’t have cancelled, they would have been the only ones. All other sporting events are going to be on hold. One dude contracts it, and a shitstorm of backlash occurs
That’s probably true. Just funny they decide to cancel it once Alabama and Tennessee are literally in the gym for shoot around before the game. Like, great job SEC way to really limit the chance for these student athletes to get sick.
Seems to me that Arkansas and UGA are 2020 SEC conference tournament co-champs. Nobody else in the conference won so much as a single game.
Saw the SEC announce it on Twitter and a whole lotta these guys and gals letting us know that we're all snowflakes scared of something not even as bad as the flu. "Basically just a cold"
Sankey has announced they determined winner by most points scored, congrats to our Georgia posters for SEC tourney runners up
Bilas just said on ESPN that the NCAA was contemplating delaying or cancelling the NCAA tournament without informing the conference commissioners at all. Basically, the conference commissioners had no idea that there was a chance of a delay to the NCAA tournament until yesterday. That makes a lot more sense as to why all the conference tournaments remained scheduled (and open last night), and explains the SEC's perceived lack of transparency (at least by me). So I guess that makes more sense from the SEC, but also holy fuck at the NCAA. How can you have a breakdown in communication like that, and not alert the conferences or fans of this possibility? Very strange, costly, and dangerous that they would have considerations like that and not tell the conferences at all.
We’ll be fine like almost every year despite EJ Montgomery making one of the dumbest draft declarations you’ll ever see from a power five team considering he isn’t even in the ESPN top 100. Got a grad transfer in the Mintz kid from Creighton. Probably getting Haarms. A freshmen, Dontaie Allen, that would have been playing last couple months, but Calipari didn’t want to burn his redshirt, will be playing this year. Best recruiting class in the country with two top-5/10 prospects, depending on which ranking service you look at.
From SEC Media Relations: Mark Whitehead, who has served as Coordinator of Men’s Basketball Officials for the Southeastern Conference since 2016, has resigned from that position, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey announced Tuesday. “I appreciate Mark’s work and his investment of time and effort the last four seasons to improve the SEC officiating program,” Sankey said. “He was tireless in his dedication to the position and we will miss his enthusiasm for the sport of basketball that brought our officiating program to a new level.” In his role with the SEC, Whitehead also directed an officiating consortium that includes the American, Sun Belt and Atlantic Sun conferences. Before becoming the SEC’s Coordinator of Officials, Whitehead worked regularly as an official in the SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, American, Mountain West, Conference USA and Missouri Valley conferences and was selected to work the NCAA men’s basketball tournament 22 consecutive years, including 18 times in the NCAA regional round and five Final Four assignments. The SEC will immediately begin the search process for a new Coordinator of Men’s Basketball Officials.
There were some very real disconnects between what the rest of the country and the SEC were doing with regards to how games were officiated. Frankly, most games were tough to watch due to the sheer number of fouls called—not to mention fouls that were called in anticipation of contact which often sadly never occurred. Props to Sankey for moving on this.
Fuck Mark Whitehead. Maybe the SEC will finally start to have at least semi-competent officiating for once.