12/30 - St. Joe's...what is the chance game is played?

[spiderhoops]

Selfish post...I bought tickets a few months back (pre-Omicron) to take my son to his first Spiders home game. Traveling a few hours and planning on staying overnight, etc. Any scoop on the chances the game is played on the 30th? I've been checking St. Joes twitter, etc. but no mention since they went on pause prior to their 12/22 game.

If anyone has heard any rumblings, please post. Thanks...and Go Spiders.

 

[Eight Legger]

Without knowing their situation, I would think the odds got a lot better with the CDC announcement yesterday shortening quarantine time. If they have enough guys who are beyond the five day window, I'd think things are good to go.

 

[SFspidur]

No news is good news...so far.

 

[SpiderTrap]

But don't think they would be testing day of the game? And that could result in a lot of "gameday" changes?

Maybe not cancellation, but having certain players unavailable.

 

[32counter]

Here is the guy to shadow

Taylor Funk - 2021-22 - Men's Basketball - Saint Joseph's University

Taylor Funk (33) Forward - • 2020-21 Big 5 Most Improved Player • 2020-21 Big 5 Leading Free Throw Shooter • 2020-21 All-Big 5 First Team • 2021-22 All-Big 5

sjuhawks.com

 

[SpiderDogg]

Hope they stop testing symptom free, vaccinated players. Do what the CFP is doing.

 

[Eight Legger]

Didn't we just shut down another Funk? How many funky Funks are there?

 

[spider23]

I sure hope the young man or lady in the hawk costume has been thoroughly tested for every possibly underlying condition, and overlaying ones too.

 

[spider fan]

Didn't we just shut down another Funk? How many funky Funks are there?

Too many!

 

[3genspider]

Curious, will the Hawk be asked/required to wear a mask under the costume?

 

[spider fan]

I sure hope the young man or lady in the hawk costume has been thoroughly tested for every possibly underlying condition, and overlaying ones too.

That is a great attention getter for St. Joe's with at least one arm flapping throughout the entire game. Often think of how sweat producing the whole exercise for the full scholarship student who takes on the responsibility. Must have some "back-up" waiting in the "wings" haha if anything happens to the primary arm flapper.

 

[spider fan]

Curious, will the Hawk be asked/required to wear a mask under the costume?

Would think not as the Hawk is a member of the "team" in the sense of physical activity the entire game. Can you imagine how hot a mask would be under the Hawk head?

 

[SFspidur]

COVID doesn't seem to infect birds.

 

[urmite]

I sure hope the young man or lady in the hawk costume has been thoroughly tested for every possibly underlying condition, and overlaying ones too.

Now I am picturing a mascot with swabs replacing feathers...

 

[Gallipoli]

Curious, will the Hawk be asked/required to wear a mask under the costume?

Otherwise, ban the Hawk.

 

[urmite]

Didn't we just shut down another Funk? How many funky Funks are there?

If Taylor plays, Aiden may have to forego his redshirt...

In other words, If they bring the Funk, we will bring the Noyes...

 

[Gallipoli]

Instead of t-shirts, they should launch masks and tissues directly at the Hawk.

 

[Gospiders06]

The Holy cross they had before this was cancelled. That game was supposed by played 12/22. Now it's been a week. I thought the window was 2 weeks to make sure you don't have it? With varies tests I am sure the whole team has been tested many times. With Covid everyone again. It's like a coin-toss this game will happen.

 

[SpiderDad75]

Selfish post...I bought tickets a few months back (pre-Omicron) to take my son to his first Spiders home game. Traveling a few hours and planning on staying overnight, etc. Any scoop on the chances the game is played on the 30th? I've been checking St. Joes twitter, etc. but no mention since they went on pause prior to their 12/22 game.

If anyone has heard any rumblings, please post. Thanks...and Go Spiders.

May find something out this evening from what I was told.

 

[97spiderfan]

Well VCU and Mason just got called off and they are playing tomorrow.

 

[spiderhoops]

May find something out this evening from what I was told.

Thank you. Appreciate the inside info!

 

[Long Island Spiders]

The league just announced the following games are postponed. Our game is not on the list.


The league also announced the postponement of the following conference games, due to COVID-19 issues:

Women's Games	Men's Games
Jan. 1 – Fordham at Davidson	Dec. 30 – St. Bonaventure at George Washington
Jan. 1 – George Mason at Massachusetts	Dec. 30 – George Mason at VCU
Jan. 1 – VCU at La Salle	Dec. 30 – Duquesne at Davidson
Jan. 1 – Dayton at Rhode Island Reschedule: Wednesday, Feb 16	Dec. 30 – Dayton at Rhode Island
Dec. 30 – Saint Louis at Massachusetts

 

[SFspidur]

Hallelujah...that's a good sign.

 

[RichmondNative]

The league just announced the following games are postponed. Our game is not on the list.


The league also announced the postponement of the following conference games, due to COVID-19 issues:

Women's Games	Men's Games
Jan. 1 – Fordham at Davidson	Dec. 30 – St. Bonaventure at George Washington
Jan. 1 – George Mason at Massachusetts	Dec. 30 – George Mason at VCU
Jan. 1 – VCU at La Salle	Dec. 30 – Duquesne at Davidson
Jan. 1 – Dayton at Rhode Island Reschedule: Wednesday, Feb 16	Dec. 30 – Dayton at Rhode Island
Dec. 30 – Saint Louis at Massachusetts

Hard to believe that there are not 7 available scholarship players for all of those games. I suppose if the “majority” if the team tested positive then they should be good to go once the required isolation time has passed.

 

[8legs1dream]

this thing is going off the rails at an amazing rate

 

[Long Island Spiders]

Hard to believe that there are not 7 available scholarship players for all of those games. I suppose if the “majority” if the team tested positive then they should be good to go once the required isolation time has passed.

I feel like they probably told the players to stay home, game going to be cancelled. Let’s see what happens now that the policy has officially been revised.

 

[urmite]

Well VCU and Mason just got called off and they are playing tomorrow.

Wow, game got postponed from Thursday to Wednesday...

 

[urfan1]

saw on the news tonight covid hospitalizations in Richmond area --- 12/1 were 901, today 1966

 

[SouthJerseySpiderFan]

this thing is going off the rails at an amazing rate

Indeed and consider 14 of the 23 scheduled CBB games tonight were either cancelled or postponed. And going by urfan1's post above doesn't look like it will get any better any time soon.

 

[spider23]

Saw a tweet from Goodman that many college coaches were secretly hoping their whe team tests positive to get it over with. Makes sense since it seems would almost have to be the case with so many games postponed.

 

[SpiderDogg]

Feels like so long since we’ve played a game

 

[SpiderGuy]

The league just announced the following games are postponed. Our game is not on the list.


The league also announced the postponement of the following conference games, due to COVID-19 issues:

Women's Games	Men's Games
Jan. 1 – Fordham at Davidson	Dec. 30 – St. Bonaventure at George Washington
Jan. 1 – George Mason at Massachusetts	Dec. 30 – George Mason at VCU
Jan. 1 – VCU at La Salle	Dec. 30 – Duquesne at Davidson
Jan. 1 – Dayton at Rhode Island Reschedule: Wednesday, Feb 16	Dec. 30 – Dayton at Rhode Island
Dec. 30 – Saint Louis at Massachusetts

This is not a good thing. I hope I'm wrong, but this seems like the start of things to come. Hopefully we won't see a redo of last season's cancellations...but. We obviously are victims of other teams' Covid cases not just our lack of. The last few weeks in the sports world has not been good.

 

[SpiderTrap]

Its almost like they should wait and have teams test on Monday, and those that pass and have enough - schedule a game for Wednesday. Then test again Thursday - those teams that pass testing - schedule a game for Saturday. Schedule games week by week with the teams that are available.

 

[SFspidur]

Spiders just published game notes...so far so good. Grasping for any little sign that the game is still on.

 

[97spiderfan]

saw on the news tonight covid hospitalizations in Richmond area --- 12/1 were 901, today 1966

Everyone is tested when they enter the hospital and given rate of spread a lot of these new admissions are being admitted with Covid vs. because of Covid.

 

[Eight Legger]

 

[Spiderstew1962]

I sure hope the young man or lady in the hawk costume has been thoroughly tested for every possibly underlying condition, and overlaying ones too.

Test for avian flu also!

 

[SpiderK]

Yep, this thing has hit Chicken Little on steroids status now. The school administrators obviously want to shut the season down and will within a couple weeks. If they don’t let the fans in, who cares anyway. I have had scores of colds and I am still here.

 

[Spiders4ever]

Spiders -12. Win going away.

 

[SpiderTrap]

These games will be so hard to predict because I don't think we will know who is available until gametime. And with the new CDC guidelines - if your vaccinated and exposed, they say to no longer quarantine, just wear a mask for 5-10 days - so does that mean we could have players get exposed, but just play in the next game wearing a mask?

I like the Spiders in this one, but I do think it will be closer than expected. I like Lange as a coach for St. Joes and think he had them trending in the right direction at the end of last year. COVID has really played havoc with recruiting and I am sure put them behind schedule - but last 4 games St. Joes has loss to Villanove, beat Penn, beat Temple, and loss to Bradley. They have not played in almost 2 weeks - so we should look to start fast and shock them a bit. But I doubt we do that.

Spiders win by 7 by making some late free throws.