wonder who really took the test for all the athletes? https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article244092037.html UNC-Chapel Hill announced an outbreak of COVID-19 among its athletic department on Wednesday that will halt the football team’s voluntary off-season workouts. In a press release, the school said it conducted 429 tests of athletes, coaches and staff and 37 tests came back positive for the coronavirus. The Orange County Health Department has identified the situation as a cluster, which means there are five or more people who are positive for COVID-19. The football team’s workouts, which are led by players without coaches present per NCAA rules, will be paused at least for one week. UNC’s athletes returned to campus last month, with groups of athletes returning in phases. One group arrived June 12, another June 19 and two more arrived later in the month. When the players arrived on campus, they were tested for the coronavirus. The school had previously said it wouldn’t be announcing coronavirus test results. Now that there are 37 positive tests, the infected athletes will quarantine for 14 days at their permanent residence or in a residence hall specified by the university. That is in accordance with protocols the university established prior to allowing athletes to return. Coaches and staff members will isolate at their homes. In addition, anyone identified as a close contact will self-quarantine for 14 days. If they become symptomatic, they will also be tested, the school said in a press release.
Report: ACC considering a five team home-and-home schedule As conferences scramble to put together a plan for the 2020 college football season after the Big Ten announced it would be playing a conference-only schedule on Thursday, one of the Power-Five conferences is floating an interesting idea. According to 99.9FM The Fan radio host Joe Giglio, the ACC is considering a ten-game schedule consisting of a home-and-home between five different opponents. Notre Dame would also be included and count in the ACC standings, and there wouldn't be any other games against teams outside the league. Adding Notre Dame to the mix would help them fill their schedule (they are an FBS Independent team) and make the five home-and-home games possible with the Fighting Irish being the 15th team in the ACC. According to Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter David Teel, ACC commissioner John Swofford has said that if the league adopts an all-conference football schedule for 2020, Notre Dame likely will be in the mix. In 2020, Notre Dame first plays an ACC opponent on September 26, away at Wake Forest. After that first game against an ACC opponent, the Fighting Irish play ACC teams five consecutive weeks in a row from October 17 to November 21. Those five opponents, in order, are Pitt, Duke, Clemson, Georgia Tech, and Louisville. Notre Dame is a member of the ACC in all other sports except for hockey. This report of the proposed five opponent home-and-home schedule contradicts a report from earlier today that claimed SEC East schools and ACC state rivals may want to still try to play their originally scheduled contests. However, this would only benefit the SEC if the ACC adds Notre Dame and finalizes the proposed five opponent home-and-home schedule. Last month, ACC Commissioner John Swofford joined The Paul Finebaum Show to discuss the latest steps in college football and the challenges ahead. “I think we’ve made the decisions that we can make and should make up to this point in time,” Swofford said. “We haven’t altered the preseason practice period at this point in time, there’s no reason to at this point in time. So I think that the decisions that can be made have been made. But it’s odd being in a situation beyond that where coaches and athletic directors and commissioners that are in leadership roles are used to making decisions and moving on and you’re action-oriented. In a sense, with some of this, we’re in a holding pattern where we’re not at a point to make definitive decisions yet. We’re proceeding as if we will start the football season on time and we will play a full season. But we also know that either of those could be altered, either significantly or not so significantly. So we’re having to develop a lot of different scenarios and spend a lot of time and energy on different scenarios that may or may not come into play.” Swofford was asked by Finebaum about when college football is a full-on green light “go.” “Well I think that when we reach mid-July, hopefully that’s a more definitive point,” Swofford said. “I think that’s a benchmark certainly when you reach a point where you’re starting practice and that first weekend of games is in sight and potentially a reality at that point. Then it all starts becoming more and more real. I do think that we’re all moving ahead on the basis that we will start and that we will start on time. If that changes we will adjust and I think we’ll be ready to adjust to whatever we may have to adjust to. It may be a Fall that is very different than any other Fall, there may be some teams playing more games than others based on testing and potential outbreaks and different locales and every conference has different state regulations that will have to be dealt with.”
Damn it sucks we lost the tournament but at least we'll have football back. Okay so I won't make it to a game but it will be nice to watch on TV at least. Wow lots of schools going online, going to be weird to see how football works. Ivy League cancelling the season, who cares, it's the Ivy League. Damn a lot of these teams are having a bunch of positive tests. Okay so maybe it's a conference only schedule this year. Okay so division only schedule. ...... We can all see where this is going.
It's pretty awesome. My roommate loves it and had me watch the Netflix special and now I'm a big fan. It helps having him there to answer all my questions.
I for one can’t wait to draw clemson when we inevitably try a 10 game home and home with a single team.
clearly no one had to take tests for you unlike athletes at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
that would be the only concern i have. I don't know how the NBC contract versus the ACC's television rights would work out.
bummed we don't play NC State ( at me thinking we will have a season). outside of South Carolina and FSU, they're probably our biggest rival.
I assume they'll try to keep the rivalry games as the one OOC, but I wonder what the revenue breakdown would be between a home UF game vs a sponsored kickoff classic matchup with WVU. Schools may have to make the choice based on that, especially if it is an away game