Bunch of bullshit in my opinion. I hope teams put someone they can “trust” in charge of testing or this thing is gonna get shut down before it really has a chance to get off the ground. The Karen wing of presidents won this battle IMO. They knew they would get raked over the coals if they didn’t allow the teams to play while other conferences were playing successfully. They also knew they would get blowback if they allowed the B1G to start in early/mid October giving the conference 9-10 weeks to complete an 8 game season. They didn’t want to play and they don’t want anyone else to play. So they forced the pro-play camp to make a deal with the devil knowing, in the end, the pro-play camp would ultimately take anything that gave them a chance to qualify for the playoff.
So they set them up to fail. 8 weeks to complete an 8 week season? WTF?!?! 5% positivity rate among athletes constitutes a level RED “outbreak”. Outbreak? Are you fucking kidding me?!?! That could be anywhere for 6-10 cases depending on roster size. That’s an “outbreak”? And if your student/local population is >7.5% the whole damn program has to shut down. Despite the fact the athletic dept has zero control over that metric. Then the cherry on top of the shit sundae... 21 day quarantine for any athletes that test positive. Holy what the fuck?!?! That extra week, beyond national guidelines, gives them an extra week for additional cases to pop up while completely healthy athletes are still sitting in quarantine. They will have kicked the virus in 7-10 days but will still be considered a “positive case” for another 10-14 days. Total bullshit move by the Karens.
God I hope we can finish a season, but this sure looks like the Karens are pissing on us and calling it rain. They just can’t wait till this thing shuts down so they can say “I told you so”. This whole thing is a total joke. Probably be lucky to even start the season under the 7.5% local infection rate and 5% among athletes. SMH