Great to see Tech being proactive for a change.
Should have let channel 8 or 10 break this since they actually cover LaTech baseball. Nobody reads the paper anymore.
Great to hear! Let's make it happen
Now we’ll see how hard Tech works the collegiate sports network to get something that would normally be well out of their reach. Of course the team has to do the most important part of continuing winning and while that’s going on all the sales people of Tech beginning with AD Woods have to work all the connections they have. For this not to happen because of a leadership failure would be inexcusable.
Dr. Wood will be 97.7 on at 5:00. This obviously will be a topic discussed.
Today is the deadline for submitting a bid to host.
Logistics were explained in an April 2 NCAA memorandum to Division I baseball coaches and administrators.
“Part of the health and safety protocols for NCAA championships this year was to change to predetermined sites for all sports. In order to fully prepare for COVID-19 testing procedures and protocols, more than a week is needed to prepare the site including certification as a testing site and also to confirm testing personnel from the testing provider. A minimum of three weeks is necessary to ensure that the site will be functioning efficiently,” the memo states. “For the 2021 NCAA Division I Baseball and Softball Championships, preliminary-round sites (regionals and super regionals) will be predetermined.”
Member institutions may bid for the right to host one of the 16 regionals. A program’s on-field product is expected to be a factor in determining hosts. While a three-week interval is necessary for a regional site to be approved by the NCAA, eight of the 16 sites will be additionally designated as super regional hosting locations in the single week between the two rounds. Coronavirus protocols and procedures will be unchanged between the regionals and super regionals.
“There is only one testing location that will be used at each regional and super regional site and it must be a minimum of 2,500 square feet. The testing space may be located in a hotel ballroom or at a designated campus location (at a location other than the competition venue),” the memo says.
The timeline for submitting a bid to host a preliminary round is as follows.
Monday, March 29 – bid portal opened.
Monday, April 12 – deadline to submit bids.
Week of May 10 – baseball regional site selection announcement.
Monday, May 31 – baseball selection announcement.
Throw a bone to somebody who can help you not somebody who bashes you every chance they get. Had I known they were going to leak it to TNS I would’ve called it into a talk radio station the day before.