News Article: NCAA lays out plan for playing but warns of surging pandemic

[crimsonaudio]

NCAA lays out plan for playing but warns of surging pandemic

The NCAA handed down its latest guidelines for playing through a pandemic while also sounding an alarm: The prospect of having a fall semester with football and other sports is looking grim.

If the games can go on, the NCAA says college athletes should be tested for COVID-19 no more than 72 hours before they play, players with high-risk exposures to the coronavirus should be quarantined for 14 days and everybody on the sideline should wear a mask.

 

[81usaf92]

Yep we are done for the year. Notice the word(s) missing... "fan" "attendance"

 

[NationalTitles18]

''This document lays out the advice of health care professionals as to how to resume college sports if we can achieve an environment where COVID-19 rates are manageable,'' NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement. ''Today, sadly, the data point in the wrong direction. If there is to be college sports in the fall, we need to get a much better handle on the pandemic.''

Kratochvil, who heads the Big Ten's Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases, said the availability of tests and how quickly results can be delivered, the availability of personal protective equipment used by healthcare workers and the stress on hospitals will all be considered when determining whether college sports can be played.

''Everything is connected,'' he said.

If you want college sports (and if you care about preserving life) then do what every competent public health expert is advising you to do.

 

[DogPatch]

everybody on the sideline should wear a mask.

That won't happen.

 

[crimsonaudio]

That won't happen.

I assume they mean everyone outside of the program, but I'm also pretty sure the whole concept is pie-in-the-sky thinking anyway.

Would love to be wrong.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I have gotten to a point that I don't care if there is or isn't a 2020 football season. I just want this damn virus gone.

 

[92tide]

this is getting to be like watching your child desperately hold onto the idea of believing in santa claus, the easter bunny, and the tooth fairly even though they are pretty sure it's all bunk

 

[B1GTide]

Sorry - realized this is a FB board.

 

[Con]

Sorry - realized this is a FB board.

You have to stay focused @B1GTide

 

[Bazza]

Welcome to the year 2020.....

 

[CHATTBRIT]

Hopefully requiring a mask on the sidelines would be followed. Surely, working for Coach Saban they would be more disciplined and aware of protecting others than most of the non-mask wearing, selfish idiots we see on the news every night for the last few weeks, some of which are either in the hospital or the morgue. Be aware of others.

 

[DogPatch]

Hopefully requiring a mask on the sidelines would be followed. Surely, working for Coach Saban they would be more disciplined and aware of protecting others than most of the non-mask wearing, selfish idiots we see on the news every night for the last few weeks, some of which are either in the hospital or the morgue. Be aware of others.