I know that they have already played some college football and NFL football, but it's still too early to say if that's a success or not. Fortunately for the Pac-12 is that the picture should be clearer by the end of the month.
Pro sports in a non-bubble environment have been fairly cavalier about the whole two-week incubation period (they being satisfied with two consecutive negative test results and not requiring people to quarantine for two weeks even after exposure to the someone with the virus). I think baseball is able to avoid disaster because transmission through touching the ball is small; football is obviously a much more contact sport (both within practices and games). We are still a week or two before we can say that no COVID spread across two cities/towns because of a game of football either in college, pro, or high school level to be able to proclaim that football during the pandemic is working.
another great write up by Nick. My only disagreement is with the first point: rapid testing "fanfare". Sure, its awesome, but not a game changer. The ACC announced 3x/wk testing back in the summer. Similar to Big12, NBA, MLB, NFL; if they can do it, so could the p12, which just happens to have some of the greatest medical centers in the world.... (Heck, in back in April LA County announced free testing to anyone who wants it. Sure, it took a few days for the results, but that is just a logistics issue, not a scientific lab issue. USC & UCLA could have easily paid their med centers to run pcr tests same-day.) The lack of testing was and has been nothing more than an excuse to justify delaying sports. Now, delaying fall sports for the health/safety of the student athletes may have been the right thing to do, but using testing availability as a rationale was just spin.
Regarding Title IX, the other fall sports were ppd to spring at the NCAA level. If they are played at any time this academic year, or cancelled by the NCAA (in the off chance all this goes sideways), Title IX is satisfied.
I know that they have already played some college football and NFL football, but it's still too early to say if that's a success or not. Fortunately for the Pac-12 is that the picture should be clearer by the end of the month.
Pro sports in a non-bubble environment have been fairly cavalier about the whole two-week incubation period (they being satisfied with two consecutive negative test results and not requiring people to quarantine for two weeks even after exposure to the someone with the virus). I think baseball is able to avoid disaster because transmission through touching the ball is small; football is obviously a much more contact sport (both within practices and games). We are still a week or two before we can say that no COVID spread across two cities/towns because of a game of football either in college, pro, or high school level to be able to proclaim that football during the pandemic is working.
Thanks for the reporting. Now what happens to the laundry list of demands made by Pac-12 players for revenue sharing and whatnot?
Is it okay to be both jazzed and uneasy?
another great write up by Nick. My only disagreement is with the first point: rapid testing "fanfare". Sure, its awesome, but not a game changer. The ACC announced 3x/wk testing back in the summer. Similar to Big12, NBA, MLB, NFL; if they can do it, so could the p12, which just happens to have some of the greatest medical centers in the world.... (Heck, in back in April LA County announced free testing to anyone who wants it. Sure, it took a few days for the results, but that is just a logistics issue, not a scientific lab issue. USC & UCLA could have easily paid their med centers to run pcr tests same-day.) The lack of testing was and has been nothing more than an excuse to justify delaying sports. Now, delaying fall sports for the health/safety of the student athletes may have been the right thing to do, but using testing availability as a rationale was just spin.
Regarding Title IX, the other fall sports were ppd to spring at the NCAA level. If they are played at any time this academic year, or cancelled by the NCAA (in the off chance all this goes sideways), Title IX is satisfied.
Your penultimate sentence is true in more cases than we would like to contemplate.
Great write up.