NC State Booted From College World Series for COVID, Vanderbilt Advances to Championship (msn.com)
It's hard to feel sorry for a Cinderella baseball team going to the college world series for only the third time in 53 years! being disqualified from the Championship game due to COVID.
Wouldn't you think that, with the chance of a lifetime for NC State to bring home the College World Series championship, that the players would have been vaccinated for COVID?
Quite a few obviously weren't. Needing to win two out of three against Vanderbilt to move on to the finals, the underdog team took the first game, lost the second because they only had a 9 player team to go out on the field--plus four pitchers, two of whom played in the previous game!
Since they could not move forward with a skeleton crew, the NCAA disqualified the team.
When I was a kid, the stereotype of the "dumb jock" prevailed. Today we know that many student athletes are exceptional students, bright and well-disciplined.
But I have to admit the NC State baseball team seems to fit that stereotype. How could so many players on full scholarships, working hard to get to the championship during the whole season, throw it all away because they were too--I don't know--lazy?? ignorant?? delusional?? to get vaccinated?
As I said many times, "You'd think we were asking them to donate a kidney instead of a shot in the arm for all the bellyaching they do about it!"
The players, the coaches, and the culture of a university that doesn't push back on vaccination conspiracy theories deserves what they got.
It's hard to feel sorry for a Cinderella baseball team going to the college world series for only the third time in 53 years! being disqualified from the Championship game due to COVID.
Wouldn't you think that, with the chance of a lifetime for NC State to bring home the College World Series championship, that the players would have been vaccinated for COVID?
Quite a few obviously weren't. Needing to win two out of three against Vanderbilt to move on to the finals, the underdog team took the first game, lost the second because they only had a 9 player team to go out on the field--plus four pitchers, two of whom played in the previous game!
Since they could not move forward with a skeleton crew, the NCAA disqualified the team.
When I was a kid, the stereotype of the "dumb jock" prevailed. Today we know that many student athletes are exceptional students, bright and well-disciplined.
But I have to admit the NC State baseball team seems to fit that stereotype. How could so many players on full scholarships, working hard to get to the championship during the whole season, throw it all away because they were too--I don't know--lazy?? ignorant?? delusional?? to get vaccinated?
As I said many times, "You'd think we were asking them to donate a kidney instead of a shot in the arm for all the bellyaching they do about it!"
The players, the coaches, and the culture of a university that doesn't push back on vaccination conspiracy theories deserves what they got.
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