Alabama football: At least five players have reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus

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“If you’re gonna bring back 6,400 students back to Cambridge, understand that this peer group is going to exchange fluids at every opportunity they can, socially,” says Harvard distance coach Alex Gibby. “They’re not gonna distance. They’re gonna have conversations, they’re gonna have their love lives, they’re gonna drink — all the things college kids do.”
 
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“I think that the way we’ve designed the modern university, it’s so dependent on tuition revenue, and tuition revenue is so dependent on people being in-person in classes — it’s a really different experience for families to want to pay tuition to take Zoom classes,” says Northern Arizona coach Mike Smith. “And with that design, colleges have had to really put the emphasis on how they can get humans in chairs, six feet apart, with masks and things like that.”
 
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“If one of our kids get COVID, then everybody on the team who’s been in contact with him has gotta be quarantined for two weeks or so,” said Joe Pienta. “And that might be the season there.”
 
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“You can’t social distance on a bus or airplane no matter how many people you have on it when you’re on it for four hours of recycled air,” Dave Smith says.
 
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“Are we going to fly a kid from California here, let him stay in a dorm room with one of the kids from our team, let him go to classes and then 48 hours later put him in a plane to fly back to California?” says Harwick. “I mean, I just don’t see how that’s going to work.”
 
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s far as the 2020 season is concerned, NCAA coaches remain in a holding pattern. They’re waiting for guidance — from the NCAA, from their states and counties, from their university. Once they know the rules under which they can operate, they can start making definitive plans. Because right now, there’s still too much uncertainty.

“It feels like we’re just stuck,” says Ireland.
 
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BTW, High School sports are in the same holding pattern. The school where I teach and coach had softball tryouts today and football tryouts and practice start after the 4th of July. The plan now is we start as normal and go as normal as long as circumstances allow. I expect disruptions later in the year, but maybe things will hold. We shall see.
My son plays football now and I will allow him to play as long as the team is together. If players and faculty and students begin testing positive as the season starts, it will be nearly impossible to say it is a safe environment and playing situation for adults or students, regardless of personal feelings about the pandemic and politics.
 
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I'm busy with work for a day, I come back, and we have a 7 page thread about bama players with the flu?

Let's shut down the whole world!!!

God forbid, if someone swallows a dorito the wrong way, we may need to cancel football for a hundred years.

Some of you seem to have dedicated your lives to freaking out over fake news.
 
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That's not a corona virus in Alabama, it's DNA damage from interbreeding, Bama fans know that!
 
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Berry4Heisman14 said:
you’re right let’s shut down the world for an entire year and increase the unemployment rate. It’s done really good things for everyone thus far
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The PlannedDemic got ya skeer'd , yo better watch out, dat corona may have yo number
 
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Volinnooga said:
Sure, go ahead and make light of it—ignore the fact that those with the virus could likely contaminate others who are older or otherwise compromised. The risk isn’t so much to the young and healthy-/ it’s the risk of others that they expose.
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So what? If there had been no lock down at all, herd immunity would have been achieved quickly and this would have all been over in about 3 weeks. Highly conditioned athletes in their late teens/early twenties have just about the least to worry about from it.
 
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Caspian said:
Some people seem to be enjoying the whole virus scene, with its lockdowns, masks, and distancing. It's as if they have been secretly waiting for this event their entire lives. And now that it's here, they can barely contain their enthusiasm. And they want everyone else to share in their fear-based OCD. Masks have become the new universal symbology for sheep.
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What a load of crap. But if I can have my opinion, you can have yours.

I suppose there are some "doomsday" type people that might fit that description, but I don't get the vibe from anyone here. I get the feeling a few want to just say "I told you so" but don't you think that originates from genuine concern? What was your motivation for your comment here?

I just don't get the "hate". And IMO the above comment is just stoopid.
 
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PSYVOL said:
Only way to explain cavalier attitudes over the reality of the situation, as it stands now, is idealogical bias or personal desire. Would any of us want our beloved Trey Smith, with his medical history and compelling life story, to contract this virus? Is that an acceptable risk so we can be entertained? That's just one hypothetical. We need to think about it beyond our own wishes with empathy and respect for lives already lost.
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Great example. To me, this is where most AD's, Fulmer included are coming from. Everyone's got plan A for playing the full tilt, but, they're for sure developing plans B,C,D... with the effort of playing ball. Outside of doing what's right for the players because ultimately, they're the caretakers for people's kids, just from a financial stand point, if they don't go to all measures to protect the players, they miss any longer term financial opportunities for this season. I think they'll start the season with the most conservative approach possible...probably no fans, and see how that goes until they open the flood gates for a certain number of folks to attend games.
 
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ManboyVol said:
I'm busy with work for a day, I come back, and we have a 7 page thread about bama players with the flu?

Let's shut down the whole world!!!

God forbid, if someone swallows a dorito the wrong way, we may need to cancel football for a hundred years.

Some of you seem to have dedicated your lives to freaking out over fake news.
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I think in another 2-4 weeks there's gonna be legit concern as to whether there's gonna be a season. Bammer ain't the only school reporting cases.

If all schools have to test all players there are gonna be cases all over the country being reported which is inevitably going to lead to panic among the media, which will apply pressure to conference leaders, university officials, etc to cancel on campus meetings, classes, practice. Etc.

Again, this is just the way I see it going down. Not necessarily how I think it should happen.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
Maybe you should learn a lot more about the virus and its sequelae before making uninformed statements.
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You can't make a statement either way right now on which is more deadly (mortality rate) until we have accurate antibody testing and find out exactly how much of the population has actually been infected. Everything that's come out so far has the mortality rate for Covid dropping with each new count.
 
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