There are at least 5 Division I programs in North Carolina, and New York is not alone in having a governor or legislature banning official travel to another state. For example Pac 12 member Washingont has also banned state travel to North Carolina.
A ban against travel to Indiana over a law passed there didn't affect college sports as the law (allowing people to refuse service based on their religion) was rescinded within weeks of it's passage.
However a law is Mississippi is still on the books (also about religious conviction) that has already led to the governors of New York, Vermont, Big 10 member Minnesota, and Washington to ban state employees from traveling to The Magnolia State.
In the meantime the California legislature has been actively discussing the passage of the law very similar to New York's, and it is believed Governor Brown would sign it.
No one knows where this will all end up, but with Albany pulling out of the game in North Carolina the game (both on and off the court) has been changed. Don't be surprised if football is next, and the NBA's All Star game in Charlotte for 2017 is in serious jeopardy.
The Nov. 12 game between Duke and Albany is off the schedule, thanks to New York’s policy banning certain types of official travel to North Carolina in the wake of that state’s anti-LGBT HB2 law.
Duke was scheduled to host two games of the Hall of Fame Tipoff tournament, but is now scrambling for a second opponent after the State University of New York system, of which Albany is part, confirmed that the Great Danes won’t head to Durham. NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order in Marchbanning non-essential publicly funded travel to North Carolina. As a SUNY, Albany’s trip would qualify.
Cuomo’s order came as a response to North Carolina’s HB2, a law best known for forcing transgender people to use the bathroom of their birth gender, but much more insidious for excluding LGBT protections from statewide anti-discrimination policies, and preventing municipalities from enacting anti-discrimination policies of their own.
A SUNY spokesperson sent this statement to the Albany Times Union:
“The State University of New York supports Governor Cuomo’s executive order banning all non-essential travel to the state of North Carolina, and we instructed our campuses to immediately review any existing travel plans by faculty and staff. SUNY and its campuses continue to support the Governor on taking this stand.”
Albany’s AD also told the paper that the university supports the governor’s position.
This isn’t much of a punishment for North Carolina. Duke will get some other cupcake to fill out their schedule. (Albany will now open their season at Penn State instead.) But where this sort of sanction may have an effect is if more and more entities follow through on threats to shun the state. The big one, of course, is the NBA’s hints that it could pull the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, though commissioner Adam Silver hasn’t mentioned that since April.
http://deadspin.com/duke-albany-gam...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
A ban against travel to Indiana over a law passed there didn't affect college sports as the law (allowing people to refuse service based on their religion) was rescinded within weeks of it's passage.
However a law is Mississippi is still on the books (also about religious conviction) that has already led to the governors of New York, Vermont, Big 10 member Minnesota, and Washington to ban state employees from traveling to The Magnolia State.
In the meantime the California legislature has been actively discussing the passage of the law very similar to New York's, and it is believed Governor Brown would sign it.
No one knows where this will all end up, but with Albany pulling out of the game in North Carolina the game (both on and off the court) has been changed. Don't be surprised if football is next, and the NBA's All Star game in Charlotte for 2017 is in serious jeopardy.
The Nov. 12 game between Duke and Albany is off the schedule, thanks to New York’s policy banning certain types of official travel to North Carolina in the wake of that state’s anti-LGBT HB2 law.
Duke was scheduled to host two games of the Hall of Fame Tipoff tournament, but is now scrambling for a second opponent after the State University of New York system, of which Albany is part, confirmed that the Great Danes won’t head to Durham. NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order in Marchbanning non-essential publicly funded travel to North Carolina. As a SUNY, Albany’s trip would qualify.
Cuomo’s order came as a response to North Carolina’s HB2, a law best known for forcing transgender people to use the bathroom of their birth gender, but much more insidious for excluding LGBT protections from statewide anti-discrimination policies, and preventing municipalities from enacting anti-discrimination policies of their own.
A SUNY spokesperson sent this statement to the Albany Times Union:
“The State University of New York supports Governor Cuomo’s executive order banning all non-essential travel to the state of North Carolina, and we instructed our campuses to immediately review any existing travel plans by faculty and staff. SUNY and its campuses continue to support the Governor on taking this stand.”
Albany’s AD also told the paper that the university supports the governor’s position.
This isn’t much of a punishment for North Carolina. Duke will get some other cupcake to fill out their schedule. (Albany will now open their season at Penn State instead.) But where this sort of sanction may have an effect is if more and more entities follow through on threats to shun the state. The big one, of course, is the NBA’s hints that it could pull the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, though commissioner Adam Silver hasn’t mentioned that since April.
http://deadspin.com/duke-albany-gam...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
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