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CL82 said:
If I were to guess, I think BB will delay the start, in anticipation of a vaccine, which will reduce, but not eliminate the threat. Then again, I though delaying football until the Spring was a sure thing. It's more of timing thing than a sport thing. (Although it is tough to imagine that linemen wouldn't pass the disease pretty readily.)
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Oh yeah, football linemen are in close contact... like basketball players...they will breathe near the opponent...I guess you could go to the old UNC four corner game and maintain six foot spacing.
 
billybud said:
Sooo...if covid is around for basketball...will the Big East cancel? It is tougher to cancel the primary sport...$$$$ or not.
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Not sure it's realistic but if they really wanted to, they could follow the NBA model of a bubble. It's waaaay more complex and harder but if classes are virtual anyway, why not? The problem is that these are 18-22 year old kids. If adults can't help themselves from leaving the bubble, good luck keeping college kids in!
 
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It's naive to assume that it would be safe to play only other independents or in parts of the country that aren't current hotspots. Start mixing it up in such places, increase your exposure and that of your opponents, infection rates will begin to rise again, and the schools that flouted common sense will get the blame. Best to bag the entire season and start anew when/if there's a Covid-19 vaccine and effective therapies. And don't worry about public perception of UConn's football program. Those negative impressions formed when UConn decided to leave the AAC, and they persist. Playing a couple of football games before being obliged to shut down again isn't going to change them.
 
billybud said:
ACC test requirements for football...if you do not have a PCR lab on campus...hard to comply.

The test must be administered within three (3) calendar days of the day of competition (e.g., Wednesday test prior to a Saturday game).

At the present time, the medically appropriate weekly test for all sports shall be molecular (PCR) testing with an FDA approval .

The members of the football team include all student-athletes, countable coaches, and any support staff member that is in regular, in-person close contact with student-athletes, as determined by the institution. These support staff members may include, but are not limited to, medical care providers (e.g., athletic trainers, team physicians, nutritionists,
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So what happens to a team testing on Wednesday for a Saturday game, and the test takes 7-10 days to come back? The obvious answer is, there is no game. Time to shut this all down. It has a zero chance of working because the goal posts keep moving, and the rules in each state and conference are all different. You can't operate with 50 different sets of rules. Plus, at this point our schedule is in shambles.
 
If all conference's programs instituted the ACC stringent testing rules for teams...the risks in playing would be lessened...

In fact..the athletes with that constant testing may be safer than the average on campus student....
 
EASTFLA said:
So what happens to a team testing on Wednesday for a Saturday game, and the test takes 7-10 days to come back? The obvious answer is, there is no game. Time to shut this all down. It has a zero chance of working because the goal posts keep moving, and the rules in each state and conference are all different. You can't operate with 50 different sets of rules. Plus, at this point our schedule is in shambles.
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FSU, with its on campus PCR machines and lab has announced same day or next day turn around...the programs, I assume will have their on campus labs like FSU.

And a "play all in conference" rule ensures the control of procedure.
 
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The reason there won't be a season is the math basically doesn't work. It doesn't work in terms of the number of tests, the cost, the number of players available, you name it and it wont work.
 
Baseball keeps having positive cases, not a good sign for sports not in a bubble.
 
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Medically one of the things that had to happen to have fall football short of a cure is the advent of a cheap, accurate and instant COVid test. Something that anyone can administer daily on hundreds of people. Without cheap instant testing you really can't proceed. P5 schools are going to realize this days before the first game.
 
UCONN opponents in All-NE reshuffling:

Sacred Heart
CCSU
URI
Maine
New Hampshire
Army
UMASS
Albany
Stony Brook
Wagner

The ‘buy game’ checks ain’t there BUT it’s football and keeps the kids engaged.
 
Exit 4 said:
Medically one of the things that had to happen to have fall football short of a cure is the advent of a cheap, accurate and instant COVid test. Something that anyone can administer daily on hundreds of people. Without cheap instant testing you really can't proceed. P5 schools are going to realize this days before the first game.
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Not cheap...but FSU, at least, will be testing 130 folks weekly with same and next day returns....the answer is setting up PCR machines and lab on campus.
 
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the NCAA's preferred test, costs on average $100 to $110. Take a football team like Northwestern State's: It would cost almost $8,000 a week to test the 71 players on its 2020 roster.

"Multiply that by 16 weeks," Burke said. "I mean, that's a chunk of money for somebody like us. And I think it is for a lot of schools at the FCS level, to be honest."
 
billybud said:
Not cheap...but FSU, at least, will be testing 130 folks weekly with same and next day returns....the answer is setting up PCR machines and lab on campus.
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Once you have one case you have to do it daily. It takes a few days for COVid to incubate.
 
Rich said:
UCONN opponents in All-NE reshuffling:

Sacred Heart (NEC Cancelled Season)
CCSU (NEC Cancelled Season)
URI (CAA Cancelled Season)
Maine (CAA Cancelled Season)
New Hampshire( CAA Cancelled Season)
Army
UMASS
Albany (CAA Cancelled Season)
Stony Brook (CAA Cancelled Season)
Wagner (NEC Cancelled Season)

The ‘buy game’ checks ain’t there BUT it’s football and keeps the kids engaged.
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CAA and NEC have already cancelled their fall football season.
 
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Exit 4 said:
Once you have one case you have to do it daily. It takes a few days for COVid to incubate.
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You do know that the incubation period is the time between being infected and the showing of symptoms? The Covid virus is there during incubation and the DNA can be identified by the PCR...

Could someone become infected in the three days between the test and the game...sure...But it really cuts down the odds. Particularly if they isolate from other students in that interim.
 
billybud said:
You do know that the incubation period is the time between being infected and the showing of symptoms? The Covid virus is there during incubation and the DNA can be identified by the PCR...

Could someone become infected in the three days between the test and the game...sure...But it really cuts down the odds.
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You can still be infected prior to testing positive if your viral titer is below the LOD of the assay.
 
Rosebud70 said:
So if football season gets cancelled what about basketball???
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Football is poised to be shelved (tune in next week). Basketball is on deck. I think they will cancel Nov and Dec and then give it a go in January if the vaccines roll out and winter weather doesn't turn this world further upside down (big if).
 
phillionaire said:
You can still be infected prior to testing positive if your viral titer is below the LOD of the assay.
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The real time reverse RT PCR's are as precise as you can now get...if the DNA of Covid is there...they should find it better than any other test...

If you can not play with that, scrap all sports until next summer.
 
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