Can this year get any worse?!?!

Could it get worse? Yes, we could play Chicago State 26 times!

Really bummed. The release says they've been "testing for the past 16 weeks with no positives until this point," and "in response to these positive cases," so it's more than one. Language also hints that at least one of the unknown multiple cases is a non-player.

I was especially looking forward to the Cincinnati and Duquesne games, which would have connected our .NET rankings to the American and A-10, which are expected to have multiple teams in the tournament.

I guess with 25 or 30 people in the group of "student-athletes, coaches, managers and staff" and Covid-19 resulting in **checks notes** an average of over 10,000 new cases per day in Illinois to go with nearly 100 deaths a day, it's useless to try to affix blame for carelessness, but I'm still a little angry at whomever dropped the ball this close to tip off.

I said back in April--- just wear the damn mask, keep 6 feet away, and wash your frickin' hands. Pretty simple. Relatively painless. And what I got back was I'm "a partisan hack," and people who encourage mask wearing are "Covid scolds." All you guys had to do was stick to the program.

I searched Ramblermania for the phrase which you put in quotes: "Covid Scolds".

No matches.

I then searched for Covid + scolds without the quotation marks.

No matches.

Finally I searched for the word scolds by itself.

EUREKA! A match. But it was a post from 2014.

It is a bad look for you to post after a long absence for what seems to be the sole purpose of: 1. Resurrecting old grudges; 2. "Proving" your superior intellect; 3. Casting veiled blame on the infected Rambler, while making up quotes in support thereof.

My apologies. I searched "Covid scold" singular instead of plural.

I should have realized that you would never forget a challenge to your omniscience. Your righteous indignation is well deserved and quite becoming!

So I assume the opener is now Dec. 9th vs Chicago State. The entire non conference schedule over a 21 day period?!

UIC's schedule announcement said they have an opening for a non-con game between Dec 5 and Dec 19.

I would assume if we didn’t get UIC On the schedule before that they probably don’t wanna play us. I’m sure their fans probably do though, given the lack luster non-con they have. Maybe that will change and we will pick up a game.