Just Curious: Health Protocols

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Really hoping this thread stays on topic…

All game we kept hearing how Nunge was battling the flu. Have we learned nothing in the last 3 years? This dude is out there putting the health of 9 other guys at risk? Are there no protocols or screening before games? He’s a stiff and 40 years old so we should have been able to stop him especially because he looked like a ghost but it seems reckless to me.

 

[YearoftheHusky]

Honestly was thinking the same thing. I know it’s not covid, but it’s gross to get that close to someone with the flu.

 

[superjohn]

Really hoping this thread stays on topic…

All game we kept hearing how Nunge was battling the flu. Have we learned nothing in the last 3 years? This dude is out there putting the health of 9 other guys at risk? Are there no protocols or screening before games? He’s a stiff and 40 years old so we should have been able to stop him especially because he looked like a ghost but it seems reckless to me.

Is this a serious post?

Athletes play sick all the time.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Is this a serious post?

Athletes play sick all the time.

In 2022?

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Is this a serious post?

Athletes play sick all the time.

Post/avatar-ish

 

[Mike Honcho]

Is this a serious post?

Athletes play sick all the time.

Are you serious?

First, playing hurt and playing sick are two different things. I'd argue that too often athletes are lionized for "sucking it up" to the detriment of their own health (for example, all of the kudos given to Mike White after he fractured a few ribs a couple weeks ago). Same thing with Tua.

Secondly, it really depends on what type of illness he was dealing with. If it's a stomach flu (like MJ's famous game) then go nuts playing through it. If it's going to endanger others on the court because he has a respiratory illness, then sit out. This is not rocket science.

Beyond what has been happening IRL over the last three years, there is a basketball precedent for this. If you're bleeding or have an open wound, the game is stopped and it must be taken care of.

I side with Momma Cole and dreamjobbed2.0 over superjohn:

 

[uconngb]

Really hoping this thread stays on topic…

All game we kept hearing how Nunge was battling the flu. Have we learned nothing in the last 3 years? This dude is out there putting the health of 9 other guys at risk? Are there no protocols or screening before games? He’s a stiff and 40 years old so we should have been able to stop him especially because he looked like a ghost but it seems reckless to me.

OMG please

He had the flu. Not Covid. If he had Covid he wouldn’t have been in the building. Pick another red herring.

 

[temery]

Is this a serious post?

Athletes play sick all the time.

Hungover and sleep deprived from too much partying doesn't count. If you have the flu you are supposed to call in sick, mostly so you don't spread whatever you have.

 

[XLCenterFan]

I was more disturbed by the fact that he’s in college and just got married. Who steered him wrong like that? Terrible decision. Far more egregious than playing under the weather.

 

[tcf15]

I don’t think it was the flu: Takeaways: No. 22 Xavier upsets No. 2 UConn 83-73 on New Year's Eve

Jack Nunge battled through a nasty stomach bug and managed to be Xavier's most impactful player in the win. Sean Miller said afterward that Nunge was sleeping 30 minutes before tipoff but he didn't have a fever so he was cleared to play.

 

[J187Money]

My son was a trainer for MSU football this year. He tested positive for the flu before thanksgiving and they didn’t let him travel to the Penn State game. Shouldn’t have been on the floor. Athletes were treated the same way.

(If it was the flu)

 

[Edward Sargent]

I don’t think it was the flu: Takeaways: No. 22 Xavier upsets No. 2 UConn 83-73 on New Year's Eve

Jack Nunge battled through a nasty stomach bug and managed to be Xavier's most impactful player in the win. Sean Miller said afterward that Nunge was sleeping 30 minutes before tipoff but he didn't have a fever so he was cleared to play.

Sorry but not having a present fever is not the only consideration within an acceptable protocol. I had a “nasty stomach bug” on Dec 27 tested negative for Covid and flu then and yesterday tested positive for Covid. Along with the refs we have a couple of things to talk to the front office about. Those of you looking at Miller in the BE as a good thing be careful what you wish for

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I was more disturbed by the fact that he’s in college and just got married. Who steered him wrong like that? Terrible decision. Far more egregious than playing under the weather.

His poor wife probably thinks he has a professional future that doesn’t involve Estonia.

 

[superjohn]

In 2022?

Yes, any year. Players play sick all the time.

It's the winter, if every player who wasn't feeling well was stopped from playing you wouldn't have a basketball season.

 

[bigknight3]

Is this a serious post?

Yes. It crossed my mind while watching the game too.

The fact that you aren't in tune with world enough to know that after the last two years people are going to have a heightened response to someone showing up to work or a game sick or battling symptoms is crazy.

 

[Edward Sargent]

OMG please

He had the flu. Not Covid. If he had Covid he wouldn’t have been in the building. Pick another red herring.

Not a red herring. He may or may not have either either flu or covid

 

[uconnfan68]

I was more disturbed by the fact that he’s in college and just got married. Who steered him wrong like that? Terrible decision. Far more egregious than playing under the weather.

He’s 35.

 

[AzHusky]

He is 23 and has been playing college basketball for 6 years.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Here's hoping this thread tests positive for the flu and needs to be done away with.

 

[J187Money]

Every college athlete that presents symptoms gets tested for flu and COVID (or at least they should). And shouldn’t be playing if they test positive for either. I didn’t even know there was a test for flu until I asked my son how do you know it was the flu?

 

[superjohn]

Here's hoping this thread tests positive for the flu and needs to be done away with.

Hungover and sleep deprived from too much partying doesn't count.

 

[HeGotGame]

In 2022?

Yes, welcome to reality. Do you pay attention to the NFL? Throughout the last month or two teams have been playing through the flu, including the Bills, Giants, Saints, and Seattle.

The idea that players are going to sit out because they are not feeling well is fantasy land.

 

[Buffett10]

Big deal. They beat us he played well
The complaining from uconn fans is getting alittle ridiculous... yeah let's beat them without one of xavier best players. That's a great way to want to win. All of a sudden we turned into the whining complaining Syracuse fan base

 

[huskyfan224]

Can you imagine being worried about someone with the flu? Lol

(It disappeared the last few years btw)

 

[J187Money]

Can you imagine being worried about someone with the flu? Lol

(It disappeared the last few years btw)

It is just a matter of not wanting it to run through the whole team and kill practice and games for a week. It isn't really "worry"...

 

[storrsroars]

His poor wife probably thinks he has a professional future that doesn’t involve Estonia.

He's in Ohio now. Estonia is an upgrade.

 

[storrsroars]

Yes. It crossed my mind while watching the game too.

The fact that you aren't in tune with world enough to know that after the last two years people are going to have a heightened response to someone showing up to work or a game sick or battling symptoms is crazy.

SJ lives in Chicago where Jordan scored 38 in a finals game with the flu, and the only acceptable excuse for missing a game is getting shot.

 

[casual-yardin]

I'd bet a lot of money that the entire team plus coaches, managers, trainers etc got the flu shot. This really isn't an issue.

 

[John]

Really hoping this thread stays on topic…

All game we kept hearing how Nunge was battling the flu. Have we learned nothing in the last 3 years? This dude is out there putting the health of 9 other guys at risk? Are there no protocols or screening before games? He’s a stiff and 40 years old so we should have been able to stop him especially because he looked like a ghost but it seems reckless to me.

Definitely irresponsible.

 

[superjohn]

SJ lives in Chicago where Jordan scored 38 in a finals game with the flu, and the only acceptable excuse for missing a game is getting shot.

Haha, the flu game was actually food poisoning according to Jordan's trainer Tim Grover. They ordered a pizza to the hotel and 5 guys came to deliver it. Grover said he had a bad feeling about it, Jordan was the only one who ate and he got sick as a dog.

Stayed in last night and didn't drink. Wake up at 2 am to an unbelievable amount of sirens. They were all responding to a hookah bar a mile down the road where a guy walked in with a gun and started shooting and others returned fire.