Good find and very well said, GWAA.
Without reading the actual policy, this seems pretty reasonable, at a glance, as described on the GW sports page. 
  It's a hard task to come up with something that is weighted fairly.
 

The saddest things are:

1. Possible infection of anybody
2. Another totally messed up year for each player
3. Another year where it’s beyond  me to know if the program is progressing or not.

Last edited by FredD (12/31/2021 2:08 pm)

Add the Women´s game against SLU to the list of postponements.
https://gwsports.com/news/2021/12/31/atlantic-10-makes-changes-to-saturday-womens-basketball-schedule.aspx

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Sounds like the Atlantic 10 will not reschedule games between healthy teams that are available to play.

I guess travel logistics must be too difficult but it's a shame that the A-10 isn't trying to match up two health teams to play. That way games get played and then future dates are opened up to reschedule the COVID-postponed games.

GWRising wrote:

If everything goes well this week, I suspect our first A-10 game will be on Saturday against Dayton at home sans ticketed fans.

With all our starters?

Duquesne game officially PPD

https://twitter.com/a10mbb/status/1478146657598545920

FredD, I'm not sure what official word you really need.  Our last four games have been postponed or cancelled (likely cancelled but we shall see about conference games), and unless GW is healthy and fine while each of these four opponents weren't well enough to play, it can safely be assumed that GW has Covid issues.  Considering that one of those opponents, St. Joe's, played on Dec. 30 and is scheduled to play again tomorrow, it's pretty logical to conclude that GW does not have enough healthy players at this point.

AT Hiker wrote:

Here is the reality:

There are no A-10 members other than GW that have banned fans from upcoming or past games. In fact, I looked at 20 or so D-1 schools and none have such a ban. In addition, if you look at last year and this year, GW has played the fewest games. Is that because they have the most Covid cases or is it because the university testing program and decisions made based on the data are the strictest in the A-10? I believe it is the latter.

Spot on but in fairness part of that is because of the DC government mandates and requirements. 

 

Well the no-fans policy is a GW policy.  The Wizards played a home game last night with fans in the stands.  

As for the testing protocols, I agree with AT Hiker that it seems like we have more stringent testing and clearance policies than the other A-10 teams given we've played the fewest games over the last two years and haven't played any sort of game since December 13th.  This will mean it'll be a minimum of 26 days between playing games.  I don't think the team is faking the positive tests, just that we may be picking up more asymptomatic cases than other teams.

GWRising wrote:

Many schools do not test regularly or routinely if at all.

 

That seems to be the biggest news.  I brought it up in the other thread but I think when it comes to conference athletics there should be a uniform testing policy amongst the schools.  It doesn't seem fair that some schools are able to move forward while we're stuck quarantining. 

While COVID has hit all programs, it seems like GW has been especially snakebitten like FredD said and I too wonder about the damage to the program for taking an overly cautious approach.  If we're NOT taking a cautious approach, then what is it about our school that makes our players all keep getting sick at the same time?

If you're a recruit or transfer choosing between programs, you have to wonder if they're going to start taking into account whether the school has played most if not all games vs. GW who has played 8 conference games in two years.