2020-21 season?

[wichshock65]

Doc has talked Shaka into taking the job? Thanks terrific news! Well done Doc!!

[pinstripers]

Shaka Smart's brother or cousin or chauffer calls Doc or somebody and hints that he might have an interest if certain things were to happen......

[SubGod22]

If it truly was a surprise to him... He's either lieing or horrible at his job... Maybe both.

Also hope they aren't really just waiting until the end of the year to do any coach searching.

There's not much they can do in regards to officially opening a coaching search considering the season has started. Nobody is interviewing or talking about changing jobs right now. You pretty much have to wait to the end of the season. Unless you limit yourself to only coaches that are currently not working.

Now, come March or so, they could probably start casually reaching out to some agents to see if there could be potential interest when the time comes, but one would think now is not that time.

Everyone knows the job is open. Even IB would have to interview for the job at the end of the season to keep it. I'm sure there will be some agents that reach out to WSU towards the end of the season as well.

For now, you do your homework. You update your list and figure out what you want to start doing when the time is right.

[SB Shock]

Boatright sucks ass.

Don't you get the feeling that Boatright is gone sooner rather than later? It seems he is just taking the Gregg Marshall second statement strategy to get insure he gets his golden parachute when the new President comes aboard and hires a new AD. Why would the guy make such stupid statements?

[ShockerFever]

Boatright sucks ass.

[wichshock65]

Article from November 24, 2020. Talks about numerous things, including the investigation, coaching search, and covid:

Based on that, we should know about scheduling plans going forward any time.

[Stickboy46]

Article from November 24, 2020. Talks about numerous things, including the investigation, coaching search, and covid:

If it truly was a surprise to him... He's either lieing or horrible at his job... Maybe both.

Also hope they aren't really just waiting until the end of the year to do any coach searching.

[Ted Lasso's Neighbor]

Article from November 24, 2020. Talks about numerous things, including the investigation, coaching search, and covid:

[Ted Lasso's Neighbor]

I wonder how long those writers take combing through pictures to find the one they want for their article. I'm surprised the picture from this one hasn't become a meme or a 'caption this' discussion.

[Aargh]

Not a good year to lose 3 to 5 games at the beginning of the season. That's going to be tough to overcome.

[wichshock65]

[ShockTalk]

Seriously. Where are the mods? This conversation needs to be moved. We come to the basketball thread for basketball, we go to the politics section for politics. I've certainly had things moved for far less than this.

I have to agree. I'm not being left or right about this. If you want to talk about Democrats/Republicans, left/right, rallies/marches and so on, those are POLITICAL. If you have a different opinion, state it without such references. THIS GOES FOR EVERYONE.

[Kung Wu]

Take it to the politics forum. Covid definitely plays a role in the discussion of our season, and is certainly okay to discuss. But opinions of the politics of how covid is/was managed doesn't belong in the basketball forum.

[Shockm]

I think we can safely put the absence of fans another way.

No fans will be allowed in Charles Koch Arena in the unlikely case that a home game might be played there prior to December 31. I don't think it's going to be any better after December 31.

We didn’t take it seriously enough to have a basketball season, and now we're seeing the consequences.

Who didn’t take it serious enough? Wichita State fans? Sedgwick Countians? Americans, People of the World?

[Aargh]

I think we can safely put the absence of fans another way.

No fans will be allowed in Charles Koch Arena in the unlikely case that a home game might be played there prior to December 31. I don't think it's going to be any better after December 31.

We might get some games played prior to the end of the year, but the resistance to mitigation efforts had the predictable result of destroying the basketball season. A fall second wave was being predicted in April because people would be moving activities indoors, which increases the probability of spreading the virus.

Any discussion of what could have been done to save the basketball season would immediately deteriorate into a political argument rather than a discussion, so I'll leave it at - it was predicted, we didn't take it seriously enough to have a basketball season, and now we're seeing the consequences.

Predictions for healthy 18 - 22 year old people getting a vaccination is in the May-June range. We might have enough first responders and at-risk people vaccinated by baseball season to knock down the spread enough that a baseball season has a chance, but probably not starting in February.

If you want a baseball season, do anything you can to limit the spread of the virus.

Thank you.