CIAC will pause all fall sports activities until Aug 24

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to each his own. Our school is still playing a good number of normal competitors but different conference. Watching their football friends get jerked around for weeks gave them a new appreciation for being able to play at all.

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And the football players wish they could have gone south like the top 5-10 players in the state did.
My kids are not thankful to be playing they are pissed to be living in the **** hole of CT and really want to move back to the south.

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Move then. Any idiot that comes to CT for high school sports in dumb

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An omen of the season?

Branford boys soccer in quarantine:
https://www.nhregister.com/sports/ar...hp?src=nhrhpcp

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Branford boys soccer in quarantine:
https://www.nhregister.com/sports/ar...hp?src=nhrhpcp

Yes an omen for sure, it is the end of high school soccer and the world as we know it

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And the football players wish they could have gone south like the top 5-10 players in the state did.
My kids are not thankful to be playing they are pissed to be living in the **** hole of CT and really want to move back to the south.

buh bye 👋👋👋 No one will miss you or the jerks you are raising.

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Branford HS boys already quarantined through Oct 5 before games begin.

Season opener will be Oct 8.

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Branford HS boys already quarantined through Oct 5 before games begin.

Season opener will be Oct 8.

Someone posted a link a few hours ago, but thanks for the recap. Helpful.

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Someone posted a link a few hours ago, but thanks for the recap. Helpful.

Many posters can't be bothered to look back more than one or two posts, let alone an entire page. So hard!

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The kids are happy to be playing but they are pissed to not be playing their rivals

This statement is exactly spot on. If the conditions for going ahead and playing soccer under these circumstances have been deemed acceptable, then the games themselves should be taken just as seriously as they normally would. Or else the approval to go ahead and play shouldn't have been given in the first place. Since that approval has been given, the individual conferences need to do the right thing and at least declare champions in the respective regions of the conferences. All the hard work these players are putting in under these circumstances needs to count for something. No, life isn't all about winning trophies. But ask Jurgen Klopp what it meant to be able to lift a trophy after waiting months wondering whether they would be able to do so. It meant the world to LFC and all their supporters. And it would mean the world to me for my HS to be able to win at least something after months of suffering through all this.

Do you think the Premier League would have played out the remaining fixtures if Liverpool had already clinched the title when Covid cancelled the season? No. Because those games would have been meaningless (other than for maybe deciding the relegation places) and there would have been no reason to take the risk in playing them. Once the conditions were deemed safe, the PL did go on and finish the season. Why? Because they still hadn't declared a champion when it was cancelled that's why. There had to be some sort of closure to the season. Obviously HS is much different than EPL but the same basic principles apply.

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^^^This guy again? Wah wah wah there won't be a trophy! It's not a season unless we play our normal opponents!

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^^^This guy again? Wah wah wah there won't be a trophy! It's not a season unless we play our normal opponents!

Sorry but when you've somehow managed to make it through six months of this misery, it really is all or nothing. (And yes, a society of tech obsessed people who already spent enough time inside on devices away from fresh air being dealt the absolute hammer blow by being told they literally cannot go outside and do face to face interaction without fear of getting a death sentence- odds thankfully less than 1% now but still a very real chance- absolutely qualifies as misery). The fact that it's 2020 and we are this far into the future now is depressing enough to begin with, and when you add that on top of it, it creates the "perfect storm."

Yes, the end purpose of high school sports is about creating lasting memories and friendships regardless of the outcomes of the games. Yes, we are very fortunate to be playing any games at all. But if the go ahead was given by Gov. Lamont, that should mean that all parts of the game (including getting close enough for proper free kick walls) are indeed safe to engage in. It also should mean that whatever games are played should be taken every bit as seriously as they would be in a normal year and thus, conf champs should be declared even if state champs cannot be because of the travel risk. If those conditions aren't true, then the games should have been cancelled. Cancellation, as tough as it obviously would be, at least completes the story of the dumpster fire year and provides a definitive answer to the drama. So that's why it's a reality I can accept at this point.

When you've come this far and still haven't gotten a real solution to this mess, you have every right to wah wah wah.

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Can you post a link for this? Where do they stand on basketball?

Basketball is considered Moderate Risk. How could Boys Lacrosse which is played outdoors be considered a higher risk than boys basketball which is played indoors? Have these people every played hoops? Makes no absolutely no sense at all.

Indoor Basketball will not be able to meet these metrics:

Sports defined as Moderate Risk should be allowed to continue activities indoors, up to and including small group conditioning/skill building (Tier 1), provided routine public health protocols for indoor activities (e.g. face coverings, social distancing, cohorting, hygiene procedures) are in place.Tier 2 and 3 activities should be suspended and reconsidered for the spring season unless additional safe and effective strategies can be developed and implemented, in consultation with sports medicine advisors, to significantly mitigate the spread of respiratory droplet emissions among participants.

https://portal.ct.gov/DPH/Communicat...ID-19-Pandemic

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Basketball is considered Moderate Risk. How could Boys Lacrosse which is played outdoors be considered a higher risk than boys basketball which is played indoors? Have these people every played hoops? Makes no absolutely no sense at all.

Indoor Basketball will not be able to meet these metrics:

Sports defined as Moderate Risk should be allowed to continue activities indoors, up to and including small group conditioning/skill building (Tier 1), provided routine public health protocols for indoor activities (e.g. face coverings, social distancing, cohorting, hygiene procedures) are in place.Tier 2 and 3 activities should be suspended and reconsidered for the spring season unless additional safe and effective strategies can be developed and implemented, in consultation with sports medicine advisors, to significantly mitigate the spread of respiratory droplet emissions among participants.

https://portal.ct.gov/DPH/Communicat...ID-19-Pandemic

No it makes no sense, but I'm not sure they've been focusing on basketball/winter sports yet as they've been trying to just get the fall settled. I think they already said no basketball games until after the holidays? LAX should be fine.

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Basketball is considered Moderate Risk. How could Boys Lacrosse which is played outdoors be considered a higher risk than boys basketball which is played indoors? Have these people every played hoops? Makes no absolutely no sense at all.

Indoor Basketball will not be able to meet these metrics:

Sports defined as Moderate Risk should be allowed to continue activities indoors, up to and including small group conditioning/skill building (Tier 1), provided routine public health protocols for indoor activities (e.g. face coverings, social distancing, cohorting, hygiene procedures) are in place.Tier 2 and 3 activities should be suspended and reconsidered for the spring season unless additional safe and effective strategies can be developed and implemented, in consultation with sports medicine advisors, to significantly mitigate the spread of respiratory droplet emissions among participants.

https://portal.ct.gov/DPH/Communicat...ID-19-Pandemic

none of their decisions make sense in regards to their rulings on sports...they live in a bubble and have probably never played a competitive sport...it is a travesty what they have done to these children

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No it makes no sense, but I'm not sure they've been focusing on basketball/winter sports yet as they've been trying to just get the fall settled. I think they already said no basketball games until after the holidays? LAX should be fine.

they just dialed back club lax with their BS on Friday
spent all summer playing and not one case in our club and havent heard of any other Ct club having issues- why the backtrack?
i would understand if the summer fell apart ,but it didnt happen

this is all about football getting their panties knotted up, Lax lost their spring and didnt whine like little bitches, and im a football dad