Sacramento as regional bubble host city?
Posted: Sat Dec 5, 2020 10:34 pm
I can't post on General Board yet and am active in the two LA forums and a few others so far. I'm really interested in the COVID league management stuff and was impressed by the Florida bubble.
Sac seems like the perfect spot for any West-regional bubbles that become necessary to keep the league going. The new COVID protocols coming out today seem really punitive and position the league for some shut downs. California is already really restrictive and likely to get more so before the vaccine is distributed and/or the issue is under control via other means. But for whatever limited travel is necessary, I know the Sac airport is excellent and more manageable than every other major airport in the state. A bubble limits travel by definition, and so I was thinking more of how Sac has a smaller population than every other west-side conference team from PDX-through CA-and over to AZ. It's conceivably a more manageable area with some more reliable weather than PDX or the mountain states that could become a node of player campuses- or one big one like in FL- should the need arise. Particularly given the public investment in the Sac arena (vs. the SF arena, for example), I'd like to see a way the league can direct some sort of revenue that direction. But that's beyond the scope, and all teams would need fair share of any bubble proceeds. It just seemed like Sac would be a really logical site, unless the downtown location is actually still tough to manage lodgings, food, training and medical, travel in and out of, and so on. I don't know of any other pro-level arenas in the state that would be any better though, right?
Perhaps Phoenix would be better?
Any thoughts about this?
Sac seems like the perfect spot for any West-regional bubbles that become necessary to keep the league going. The new COVID protocols coming out today seem really punitive and position the league for some shut downs. California is already really restrictive and likely to get more so before the vaccine is distributed and/or the issue is under control via other means. But for whatever limited travel is necessary, I know the Sac airport is excellent and more manageable than every other major airport in the state. A bubble limits travel by definition, and so I was thinking more of how Sac has a smaller population than every other west-side conference team from PDX-through CA-and over to AZ. It's conceivably a more manageable area with some more reliable weather than PDX or the mountain states that could become a node of player campuses- or one big one like in FL- should the need arise. Particularly given the public investment in the Sac arena (vs. the SF arena, for example), I'd like to see a way the league can direct some sort of revenue that direction. But that's beyond the scope, and all teams would need fair share of any bubble proceeds. It just seemed like Sac would be a really logical site, unless the downtown location is actually still tough to manage lodgings, food, training and medical, travel in and out of, and so on. I don't know of any other pro-level arenas in the state that would be any better though, right?
Perhaps Phoenix would be better?
Any thoughts about this?