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And just like that I'm watching Georgia/Florida and getting ready for the game tonight.Don't know what's up or down with this shit. Cases through the fucking roof, but they still playing and unemployment down to 6.9. Man. I'm so fucking confused right now.
And just like that I'm watching Georgia/Florida and getting ready for the game tonight.
You saw that bullsh*t Notre Dame did?
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From the beginning of this Year of the Virus, it has been clear that the sport least compatible with curtailing COVID-19 is college football. The logistical hurdles were obvious and immense. Yet the powers that be persisted, and we have had a season, and it has been successful in terms of avoiding health calamities.
But it hasn’t been easy—and if anything, it is showing signs of getting harder.
The virus continues to surge nationally, and most campuses and college towns are not exempt. The single biggest challenge to conducting higher education—and the football tail that often wags that dog—is changing the behavior of college kids. They’re going to do what they want to do, and what they want to do in terms of social interaction is often directly at odds with what health experts want them to do.
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So we had late-summer campus spikes related to return-to-campus parties and Greek rush activities. Lately we have seen spikes in the aftermath of Halloween. In the football world, where the millionaires in charge insisted that the players would hunker down and stay healthy if they had the motivation of a season, the outbreaks have not stopped.
Last week, 49 out of 59 games were played—a 17% postponement/cancellation rate. That was an uptick from the season average, which had been 14.3%. And this week is off to a challenging start:
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Air Force-Wyoming (21) is canceled, the second straight game the Falcons have lost. Air Force had a number of players take “turnback” options before the semester started and are not on campus. So its available numbers were lower to begin with.
Auburn-Mississippi State (22) was postponed due to an outbreak with the Bulldogs. The Athletic reported that the Bulldogs were down to the mid-40s in terms of available players, after barely having enough to play Vanderbilt Saturday. (Teams are allowed 85 scholarship players.) But some of the attrition is due to factors beyond the virus—injuries and players who have left the program, which always happens during a coaching change. Mike Leach is in his first season at Mississippi State.
(That game has been rescheduled for the SEC’s “COVID Weekend” of Dec. 12, alongside LSU-Florida and Vanderbilt-Missouri. If you want to give players a great reason to opt out en masse and not play, tell the Commodores — who are currently winless and might still be at that point — that they must travel to the coldest town in the SEC in mid-December to play at the tail end of finals week. The Dash would vote Hell No to that assignment.)
The LSU-Alabama game (23) is in jeopardy due to the Tigers’ COVID numbers. While that may save the Tigers from a trip to the wood chipper, it also makes coach Ed Orgeron’s preseason boast about his team’s virus situation look all the more silly. "Not all of our players, but most of our players have caught it," Orgeron said in mid-September. "I think that hopefully they won't catch it again, and hopefully they're not out for games.” The Athletic reported that LSU currently has one available scholarship quarterback, no tight ends and no long snappers. The Crimson Tide would like to play the game for the chance to smash a rival, but also to further integrate its young receivers into the offense in the absence of injured star Jaylen Waddle.
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Utah (24) is trying to assemble spare parts from the scout team and walk-on ranks to play UCLA this week after missing its opener. Coach Kyle Whittingham told the media Monday that at the moment, the Utes “barely” have more than the minimum of 53 scholarship players available. He also said one player on the team had been hospitalized, which led the school to subsequently put out a statement: “One student-athlete who has not been participating with the football program since August recently tested positive for COVID-19 and was hospitalized. He has since been released from the hospital, is at home and is doing much better. Throughout this time he has been receiving full care from the medical team.” For the armchair epidemiologists who say college kids never get seriously ill from the virus, keep that young man in mind.
California (24) may have to relocate to have a chance to play due to its local health restrictions. It’s not that the Golden Bears have had an outbreak; it’s city regulations that cast a wide contact tracing net. Cal’s opener against Washington was canceled; next up (maybe) is a game at Arizona State.
Five different schools are returning to action Saturday after two consecutive weeks on the sideline, led by Wisconsin (25). The Badgers played one game and then disappeared into a COVID tunnel, and now emerge to play reeling Michigan. The other teams coming back from long layoffs: Army (to play Tulane); UTEP (to play UTSA); North Texas (to play UAB); and Florida International (to play Florida Atlantic). Thus far teams playing after two or more weeks off have gone 9–7.
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Arkansas head coach Sam Pittman (26), the landslide leading candidate for SEC Coach of the Year, is out Saturday after testing positive. He will turn over leadership of the team against No. 6 Florida to defensive coordinator and former Missouri head coach Barry Odom. Other head coaches who have missed games this year include Mike Norvell (Florida State), Jeff Brohm (Purdue) and Les Miles (Kansas).
Texas A&M (27) has paused its football workouts after a player and a staffer tested positive in the wake of the Aggies’ game against South Carolina. They are scheduled to play at Tennessee Saturday.
That’s all as of Monday afternoon. Plenty of time for other developments.
The ultimate example of the incompatibility between college football and pandemic best practices was the field storming (28) we saw at Notre Dame Saturday night. Which was followed by a remarkably craptastic missive from school president and lead hypocrite, Father John Jenkins (29).
Jenkins deemed it “disappointing” that the Notre Dame students stormed the field and engaged in other unwise weekend revelry. The letter said that many students will need to test negative to be allowed to leave campus for the extended Thanksgiving break—which is responsible stewardship for a national university that could be exporting the virus to every corner of the country. But it came from the same university president who returned from the infamous October White House super-spreader event with COVID, after failing to take precautions to protect himself and those around him.
The COVID melodrama never stops at Notre Dame. In August there was an outbreak that shut down in-person classes for two weeks and nearly sent everyone home. Then the team had an outbreak that forced the postponement of a game against Wake Forest. Now a field storming.
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick told the South Bend Tribune that the school prepared for a field storming. Irish football coach Brian Kelly (30) flat-out predicted it to his players at their walk-through, and advised his players to hightail it for the tunnel. But if Notre Dame was actually concerned about the potential health risks associated with thousands of overjoyed fans surging onto the field and surrounding its players, there was one easy way to stop it.
Don’t put thousands of fans in the stands.
That’s what the Big Ten and Pac-12 have done. Other conferences have gone ahead with having limited numbers of fans, and the social distancing of said fans has been inconsistent. (SMU is the one school that did something about those not following protocols, booting the students out of one home game.) At many locales—including Notre Dame Saturday night—the social distancing was sketchy at best and deteriorated as the game went on.
Fact is, Notre Dame wanted some home-field advantage from its crowd of 11,011, and got it. Then it also got a field storming, and we’ll see what the ripple effect is from that.
It's probably also true that those students who stormed the field would have been joyously storming the hallways of their dorms, the bars on Eddy Street or the nearest apartment kegger. Trying to prevent the close personal contact of communal celebration in that moment was impossible, whether it was in the stadium or outside. If you have thousands of students on a college campus, and you play football, the emotions of the moment are going to overtake the discretion recommended by the administration.
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THIRD QUARTER: COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND COVID, THE ONGOING STRUGGLE
From the beginning of this Year of the Virus, it has been clear that the sport least compatible with curtailing COVID-19 is college football. The logistical hurdles were obvious and immense. Yet the powers that be persisted, and we have had a season, and it has been successful in terms of avoiding health calamities.
But it hasn’t been easy—and if anything, it is showing signs of getting harder.
The virus continues to surge nationally, and most campuses and college towns are not exempt. The single biggest challenge to conducting higher education—and the football tail that often wags that dog—is changing the behavior of college kids. They’re going to do what they want to do, and what they want to do in terms of social interaction is often directly at odds with what health experts want them to do.
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So we had late-summer campus spikes related to return-to-campus parties and Greek rush activities. Lately we have seen spikes in the aftermath of Halloween. In the football world, where the millionaires in charge insisted that the players would hunker down and stay healthy if they had the motivation of a season, the outbreaks have not stopped.
Last week, 49 out of 59 games were played—a 17% postponement/cancellation rate. That was an uptick from the season average, which had been 14.3%. And this week is off to a challenging start:
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Air Force-Wyoming (21) is canceled, the second straight game the Falcons have lost. Air Force had a number of players take “turnback” options before the semester started and are not on campus. So its available numbers were lower to begin with.
Auburn-Mississippi State (22) was postponed due to an outbreak with the Bulldogs. The Athletic reported that the Bulldogs were down to the mid-40s in terms of available players, after barely having enough to play Vanderbilt Saturday. (Teams are allowed 85 scholarship players.) But some of the attrition is due to factors beyond the virus—injuries and players who have left the program, which always happens during a coaching change. Mike Leach is in his first season at Mississippi State.
(That game has been rescheduled for the SEC’s “COVID Weekend” of Dec. 12, alongside LSU-Florida and Vanderbilt-Missouri. If you want to give players a great reason to opt out en masse and not play, tell the Commodores — who are currently winless and might still be at that point — that they must travel to the coldest town in the SEC in mid-December to play at the tail end of finals week. The Dash would vote Hell No to that assignment.)
The LSU-Alabama game (23) is in jeopardy due to the Tigers’ COVID numbers. While that may save the Tigers from a trip to the wood chipper, it also makes coach Ed Orgeron’s preseason boast about his team’s virus situation look all the more silly. "Not all of our players, but most of our players have caught it," Orgeron said in mid-September. "I think that hopefully they won't catch it again, and hopefully they're not out for games.” The Athletic reported that LSU currently has one available scholarship quarterback, no tight ends and no long snappers. The Crimson Tide would like to play the game for the chance to smash a rival, but also to further integrate its young receivers into the offense in the absence of injured star Jaylen Waddle.
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Utah (24) is trying to assemble spare parts from the scout team and walk-on ranks to play UCLA this week after missing its opener. Coach Kyle Whittingham told the media Monday that at the moment, the Utes “barely” have more than the minimum of 53 scholarship players available. He also said one player on the team had been hospitalized, which led the school to subsequently put out a statement: “One student-athlete who has not been participating with the football program since August recently tested positive for COVID-19 and was hospitalized. He has since been released from the hospital, is at home and is doing much better. Throughout this time he has been receiving full care from the medical team.” For the armchair epidemiologists who say college kids never get seriously ill from the virus, keep that young man in mind.
California (24) may have to relocate to have a chance to play due to its local health restrictions. It’s not that the Golden Bears have had an outbreak; it’s city regulations that cast a wide contact tracing net. Cal’s opener against Washington was canceled; next up (maybe) is a game at Arizona State.
Five different schools are returning to action Saturday after two consecutive weeks on the sideline, led by Wisconsin (25). The Badgers played one game and then disappeared into a COVID tunnel, and now emerge to play reeling Michigan. The other teams coming back from long layoffs: Army (to play Tulane); UTEP (to play UTSA); North Texas (to play UAB); and Florida International (to play Florida Atlantic). Thus far teams playing after two or more weeks off have gone 9–7.
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Arkansas head coach Sam Pittman (26), the landslide leading candidate for SEC Coach of the Year, is out Saturday after testing positive. He will turn over leadership of the team against No. 6 Florida to defensive coordinator and former Missouri head coach Barry Odom. Other head coaches who have missed games this year include Mike Norvell (Florida State), Jeff Brohm (Purdue) and Les Miles (Kansas).
Texas A&M (27) has paused its football workouts after a player and a staffer tested positive in the wake of the Aggies’ game against South Carolina. They are scheduled to play at Tennessee Saturday.
That’s all as of Monday afternoon. Plenty of time for other developments.
The ultimate example of the incompatibility between college football and pandemic best practices was the field storming (28) we saw at Notre Dame Saturday night. Which was followed by a remarkably craptastic missive from school president and lead hypocrite, Father John Jenkins (29).
Jenkins deemed it “disappointing” that the Notre Dame students stormed the field and engaged in other unwise weekend revelry. The letter said that many students will need to test negative to be allowed to leave campus for the extended Thanksgiving break—which is responsible stewardship for a national university that could be exporting the virus to every corner of the country. But it came from the same university president who returned from the infamous October White House super-spreader event with COVID, after failing to take precautions to protect himself and those around him.
The COVID melodrama never stops at Notre Dame. In August there was an outbreak that shut down in-person classes for two weeks and nearly sent everyone home. Then the team had an outbreak that forced the postponement of a game against Wake Forest. Now a field storming.
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick told the South Bend Tribune that the school prepared for a field storming. Irish football coach Brian Kelly (30) flat-out predicted it to his players at their walk-through, and advised his players to hightail it for the tunnel. But if Notre Dame was actually concerned about the potential health risks associated with thousands of overjoyed fans surging onto the field and surrounding its players, there was one easy way to stop it.
Don’t put thousands of fans in the stands.
That’s what the Big Ten and Pac-12 have done. Other conferences have gone ahead with having limited numbers of fans, and the social distancing of said fans has been inconsistent. (SMU is the one school that did something about those not following protocols, booting the students out of one home game.) At many locales—including Notre Dame Saturday night—the social distancing was sketchy at best and deteriorated as the game went on.
Fact is, Notre Dame wanted some home-field advantage from its crowd of 11,011, and got it. Then it also got a field storming, and we’ll see what the ripple effect is from that.
It's probably also true that those students who stormed the field would have been joyously storming the hallways of their dorms, the bars on Eddy Street or the nearest apartment kegger. Trying to prevent the close personal contact of communal celebration in that moment was impossible, whether it was in the stadium or outside. If you have thousands of students on a college campus, and you play football, the emotions of the moment are going to overtake the discretion recommended by the administration.
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Arkansas coach Sam Pittman tested positive for COVID-19 and went into isolation. Texas A&M put a pause on team activities after "a couple of positive cases," coach Jimbo Fisher said.
In what coach Ed Orgeron called "a very fluid situation," several players tested positive or are in quarantine as a result of contact tracing at LSU, leaving the upcoming rivalry game against Alabama in doubt.
Auburn and Mississippi State postponed Saturday's game "due to positive tests and subsequent quarantining of individuals within the Mississippi State football program," the SEC said in a statement.
All of this during a two-hour span Monday afternoon.
That doesn't even include one of the biggest names in college basketball, Michigan State coach to Tom Izzo, testing positive, according to the school.
With cancellations thwarting the start of Pac-12 play and another run of bad news in the SEC, the past few days have been a harsh reminder of how fragile the home stretch of this regular season will be for college football.
"Everything about managing through the pandemic has been humbling," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott told USA TODAY Sports. "It’s a year where we’ve all had to shift our priorities and kind of readjust expectations."
More:Notre Dame AD addresses fan surge in Clemson post-game amid COVID-19 spike in area
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The setbacks plaguing college football are mirrored by the national increase in cases of COVID-19. There were 105,927 new cases of the coronavirus Sunday, continuing the troubling upswing since September, and all but one state had more cases last week than the week before.
In all, 50 games in the Bowl Subdivision have been cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19, with 13 coming since the start of November.
"It’s a numbers game," said Zach Binney, an epidemiologist at Oxford College of Emory University. "The more cases we have in the country, the more likely anyone is to come into contact with somebody who is infected and therefore the more likely people are to come down with the virus.
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"College football players are no exception. They are certainly not in a bubble like you’ve seen in some of the pro sports leagues, so if you’re still interacting with the broader community, including the campus community, the more cases that there are in that community the more that are going to pop up on your team.
"Football, as much as it would like to believe so, is not special in that regard."
The Pac-12 tripped into the regular season this past Saturday with two cancellations and serious questions about the state of affairs across the conference, especially given the lack of open weeks to reschedule games before the end of the regular season.
Utah's opener against Arizona was canceled after multiple positive results for COVID-19 left the Utes short of the 53-scholarship threshold set by the conference. Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said Monday that one player who had contracted the coronavirus "had a tough go of it" and was hospitalized.
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Due to safety protocols outlined by local health officials, a single positive test forced California to cancel its opener against Washington and has left Saturday's matchup with Arizona State in doubt — the guidelines require a 14-day quarantine period for those who test positive and those who are then placed into contact tracing.
"What we’ve asked for is the criteria," California coach Justin Wilcox said. "If there’s new information, we’d love to have it."
Monday's rash of developments in the SEC will have a noticeable influence on the race for the conference and the College Football Playoff.
LSU and Florida had already postponed October's meeting to Dec. 12, leaving the Tigers without an open date to move Alabama should the two be unable to play Saturday. (The rivalry has been held in every season since 1964.) That Florida has a game scheduled for Dec. 12 can be viewed as a disadvantage — if the Gators end up reaching the SEC championship game on Dec. 19, they'd face an opponent in Alabama coming off a bye week.
Any missed games would have a deep impact on Texas A&M's push for the playoff. Having already lost to Alabama, the Aggies' best chance at finishing in the top four is to win out in style against the rest of the SEC schedule. Playing even one fewer game would diminish the number of data points presented to the playoff selection committee and impact the Aggies' overall strength of schedule.
The question that perplexed administrators and onlookers this summer has resurfaced: Will the FBS be able to wade through cancellations and postponements to cross the finish line?
Over in the Big Ten, Wisconsin has been forced to cancel games against Purdue and Nebraska and is in danger of falling under the minimum number of games required to be eligible for the conference championship, though the university has projected confidence the Badgers would be able to play this weekend's game against Michigan.
But confidence is no match for the coronavirus. As the year rounds the midway point and heads toward December, the only certainty in college football is uncertainty.
"We don't have those issues right now," Arizona coach Kevin Sumlin said. "But that can change tomorrow."
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Arkansas coach Sam Pittman tested positive for COVID-19 and went into isolation. Texas A&M put a pause on team activities after "a couple of positive cases," coach Jimbo Fisher said.
In what coach Ed Orgeron called "a very fluid situation," several players tested positive or are in quarantine as a result of contact tracing at LSU, leaving the upcoming rivalry game against Alabama in doubt.
Auburn and Mississippi State postponed Saturday's game "due to positive tests and subsequent quarantining of individuals within the Mississippi State football program," the SEC said in a statement.
All of this during a two-hour span Monday afternoon.
That doesn't even include one of the biggest names in college basketball, Michigan State coach to Tom Izzo, testing positive, according to the school.
With cancellations thwarting the start of Pac-12 play and another run of bad news in the SEC, the past few days have been a harsh reminder of how fragile the home stretch of this regular season will be for college football.
"Everything about managing through the pandemic has been humbling," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott told USA TODAY Sports. "It’s a year where we’ve all had to shift our priorities and kind of readjust expectations."
More:Notre Dame AD addresses fan surge in Clemson post-game amid COVID-19 spike in area
More:Alabama takes over No. 1, Notre Dame at No. 2 in NCAA Re-Rank
The setbacks plaguing college football are mirrored by the national increase in cases of COVID-19. There were 105,927 new cases of the coronavirus Sunday, continuing the troubling upswing since September, and all but one state had more cases last week than the week before.
In all, 50 games in the Bowl Subdivision have been cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19, with 13 coming since the start of November.
"It’s a numbers game," said Zach Binney, an epidemiologist at Oxford College of Emory University. "The more cases we have in the country, the more likely anyone is to come into contact with somebody who is infected and therefore the more likely people are to come down with the virus.
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"College football players are no exception. They are certainly not in a bubble like you’ve seen in some of the pro sports leagues, so if you’re still interacting with the broader community, including the campus community, the more cases that there are in that community the more that are going to pop up on your team.
"Football, as much as it would like to believe so, is not special in that regard."
The Pac-12 tripped into the regular season this past Saturday with two cancellations and serious questions about the state of affairs across the conference, especially given the lack of open weeks to reschedule games before the end of the regular season.
Utah's opener against Arizona was canceled after multiple positive results for COVID-19 left the Utes short of the 53-scholarship threshold set by the conference. Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said Monday that one player who had contracted the coronavirus "had a tough go of it" and was hospitalized.
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Due to safety protocols outlined by local health officials, a single positive test forced California to cancel its opener against Washington and has left Saturday's matchup with Arizona State in doubt — the guidelines require a 14-day quarantine period for those who test positive and those who are then placed into contact tracing.
"What we’ve asked for is the criteria," California coach Justin Wilcox said. "If there’s new information, we’d love to have it."
Monday's rash of developments in the SEC will have a noticeable influence on the race for the conference and the College Football Playoff.
LSU and Florida had already postponed October's meeting to Dec. 12, leaving the Tigers without an open date to move Alabama should the two be unable to play Saturday. (The rivalry has been held in every season since 1964.) That Florida has a game scheduled for Dec. 12 can be viewed as a disadvantage — if the Gators end up reaching the SEC championship game on Dec. 19, they'd face an opponent in Alabama coming off a bye week.
Any missed games would have a deep impact on Texas A&M's push for the playoff. Having already lost to Alabama, the Aggies' best chance at finishing in the top four is to win out in style against the rest of the SEC schedule. Playing even one fewer game would diminish the number of data points presented to the playoff selection committee and impact the Aggies' overall strength of schedule.
The question that perplexed administrators and onlookers this summer has resurfaced: Will the FBS be able to wade through cancellations and postponements to cross the finish line?
Over in the Big Ten, Wisconsin has been forced to cancel games against Purdue and Nebraska and is in danger of falling under the minimum number of games required to be eligible for the conference championship, though the university has projected confidence the Badgers would be able to play this weekend's game against Michigan.
But confidence is no match for the coronavirus. As the year rounds the midway point and heads toward December, the only certainty in college football is uncertainty.
"We don't have those issues right now," Arizona coach Kevin Sumlin said. "But that can change tomorrow."
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A crowded mass of students, players and coaches was on the field in the minutes following the Fighting Irish's 47-40 win Saturday night in South Bend, Indiana, over then-No. 1 Clemson. Many of the thousands who stormed the field were not wearing masks or had their masks pulled down.
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Now all Notre Dame students are required to undergo coronavirus testing before they leave South Bend for the extended winter break, the school president, Rev. John Jenkins, told students Sunday night. The email announcement didn't specifically reference the storming of the field but rather "many gatherings" over the weekend.
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The campus has also put in place a zero-tolerance policy for gatherings that do not follow safety guidelines. Any student hosting a large gathering will face "severe sanctions.''
"As exciting as last night's victory against Clemson was, it was very disappointing to see evidence of widespread disregard of our health protocols at many gatherings over the weekend,'' Jenkins said in his letter Sunday.
Following the win, Notre Dame moved up two spots to No. 2 in the Associated Press college football poll, while Clemson dropped to No. 4.
Notre Dame students stormed the field Saturday after the Irish defeated Clemson in two overtimes. Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports
The celebration came just two days after Jenkins released a video warning students about spikes in COVID-19 cases around the campus and implored them to redouble their efforts to follow safety measures. Notre Dame reported 24 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, with 220 active cases overall. The university has reported 1,355 positive cases since the start of the fall semester.
Jenkins himself has come under criticism in recent weeks after he failed to wear a mask at a White House Rose Garden ceremony where President Donald Trump introduced Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Jenkins, who tested positive for COVID-19 days after attending, shook hands and sat shoulder-to-shoulder with others at the event.
Jenkins later apologized for his actions, saying in a statement that he "failed to lead by example, at a time when I've asked everyone else in the Notre Dame community to do so.''
Notre Dame's faculty senate formally expressed disappointment in the school president's actions with a resolution passed Thursday.
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A crowded mass of students, players and coaches was on the field in the minutes following the Fighting Irish's 47-40 win Saturday night in South Bend, Indiana, over then-No. 1 Clemson. Many of the thousands who stormed the field were not wearing masks or had their masks pulled down.
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Now all Notre Dame students are required to undergo coronavirus testing before they leave South Bend for the extended winter break, the school president, Rev. John Jenkins, told students Sunday night. The email announcement didn't specifically reference the storming of the field but rather "many gatherings" over the weekend.
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The campus has also put in place a zero-tolerance policy for gatherings that do not follow safety guidelines. Any student hosting a large gathering will face "severe sanctions.''
"As exciting as last night's victory against Clemson was, it was very disappointing to see evidence of widespread disregard of our health protocols at many gatherings over the weekend,'' Jenkins said in his letter Sunday.
Following the win, Notre Dame moved up two spots to No. 2 in the Associated Press college football poll, while Clemson dropped to No. 4.
Notre Dame students stormed the field Saturday after the Irish defeated Clemson in two overtimes. Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports
The celebration came just two days after Jenkins released a video warning students about spikes in COVID-19 cases around the campus and implored them to redouble their efforts to follow safety measures. Notre Dame reported 24 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, with 220 active cases overall. The university has reported 1,355 positive cases since the start of the fall semester.
Jenkins himself has come under criticism in recent weeks after he failed to wear a mask at a White House Rose Garden ceremony where President Donald Trump introduced Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Jenkins, who tested positive for COVID-19 days after attending, shook hands and sat shoulder-to-shoulder with others at the event.
Jenkins later apologized for his actions, saying in a statement that he "failed to lead by example, at a time when I've asked everyone else in the Notre Dame community to do so.''
Notre Dame's faculty senate formally expressed disappointment in the school president's actions with a resolution passed Thursday.
lou holtz is still alive?!
I can’t stand these old white men who spend their career working with mostly young black men and they never bother to gain the slightest bit of empathy and understanding for them.
Get yo honky ass out there and play you old senile bastard!
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Yeah man, I was watching when they stormed the field. None of these college kids give a fuck man. They been partying for months now. Their IFR is so low they will never give a fuck.
Sucks for older members/sick folks in their families during home visits.
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THIRD QUARTER: COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND COVID, THE ONGOING STRUGGLE
From the beginning of this Year of the Virus, it has been clear that the sport least compatible with curtailing COVID-19 is college football. The logistical hurdles were obvious and immense. Yet the powers that be persisted, and we have had a season, and it has been successful in terms of avoiding health calamities.
But it hasn’t been easy—and if anything, it is showing signs of getting harder.
The virus continues to surge nationally, and most campuses and college towns are not exempt. The single biggest challenge to conducting higher education—and the football tail that often wags that dog—is changing the behavior of college kids. They’re going to do what they want to do, and what they want to do in terms of social interaction is often directly at odds with what health experts want them to do.
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So we had late-summer campus spikes related to return-to-campus parties and Greek rush activities. Lately we have seen spikes in the aftermath of Halloween. In the football world, where the millionaires in charge insisted that the players would hunker down and stay healthy if they had the motivation of a season, the outbreaks have not stopped.
Last week, 49 out of 59 games were played—a 17% postponement/cancellation rate. That was an uptick from the season average, which had been 14.3%. And this week is off to a challenging start:
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Air Force-Wyoming (21) is canceled, the second straight game the Falcons have lost. Air Force had a number of players take “turnback” options before the semester started and are not on campus. So its available numbers were lower to begin with.
Auburn-Mississippi State (22) was postponed due to an outbreak with the Bulldogs. The Athletic reported that the Bulldogs were down to the mid-40s in terms of available players, after barely having enough to play Vanderbilt Saturday. (Teams are allowed 85 scholarship players.) But some of the attrition is due to factors beyond the virus—injuries and players who have left the program, which always happens during a coaching change. Mike Leach is in his first season at Mississippi State.
(That game has been rescheduled for the SEC’s “COVID Weekend” of Dec. 12, alongside LSU-Florida and Vanderbilt-Missouri. If you want to give players a great reason to opt out en masse and not play, tell the Commodores — who are currently winless and might still be at that point — that they must travel to the coldest town in the SEC in mid-December to play at the tail end of finals week. The Dash would vote Hell No to that assignment.)
The LSU-Alabama game (23) is in jeopardy due to the Tigers’ COVID numbers. While that may save the Tigers from a trip to the wood chipper, it also makes coach Ed Orgeron’s preseason boast about his team’s virus situation look all the more silly. "Not all of our players, but most of our players have caught it," Orgeron said in mid-September. "I think that hopefully they won't catch it again, and hopefully they're not out for games.” The Athletic reported that LSU currently has one available scholarship quarterback, no tight ends and no long snappers. The Crimson Tide would like to play the game for the chance to smash a rival, but also to further integrate its young receivers into the offense in the absence of injured star Jaylen Waddle.
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Utah (24) is trying to assemble spare parts from the scout team and walk-on ranks to play UCLA this week after missing its opener. Coach Kyle Whittingham told the media Monday that at the moment, the Utes “barely” have more than the minimum of 53 scholarship players available. He also said one player on the team had been hospitalized, which led the school to subsequently put out a statement: “One student-athlete who has not been participating with the football program since August recently tested positive for COVID-19 and was hospitalized. He has since been released from the hospital, is at home and is doing much better. Throughout this time he has been receiving full care from the medical team.” For the armchair epidemiologists who say college kids never get seriously ill from the virus, keep that young man in mind.
California (24) may have to relocate to have a chance to play due to its local health restrictions. It’s not that the Golden Bears have had an outbreak; it’s city regulations that cast a wide contact tracing net. Cal’s opener against Washington was canceled; next up (maybe) is a game at Arizona State.
Five different schools are returning to action Saturday after two consecutive weeks on the sideline, led by Wisconsin (25). The Badgers played one game and then disappeared into a COVID tunnel, and now emerge to play reeling Michigan. The other teams coming back from long layoffs: Army (to play Tulane); UTEP (to play UTSA); North Texas (to play UAB); and Florida International (to play Florida Atlantic). Thus far teams playing after two or more weeks off have gone 9–7.
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Arkansas head coach Sam Pittman (26), the landslide leading candidate for SEC Coach of the Year, is out Saturday after testing positive. He will turn over leadership of the team against No. 6 Florida to defensive coordinator and former Missouri head coach Barry Odom. Other head coaches who have missed games this year include Mike Norvell (Florida State), Jeff Brohm (Purdue) and Les Miles (Kansas).
Texas A&M (27) has paused its football workouts after a player and a staffer tested positive in the wake of the Aggies’ game against South Carolina. They are scheduled to play at Tennessee Saturday.
That’s all as of Monday afternoon. Plenty of time for other developments.
The ultimate example of the incompatibility between college football and pandemic best practices was the field storming (28) we saw at Notre Dame Saturday night. Which was followed by a remarkably craptastic missive from school president and lead hypocrite, Father John Jenkins (29).
Jenkins deemed it “disappointing” that the Notre Dame students stormed the field and engaged in other unwise weekend revelry. The letter said that many students will need to test negative to be allowed to leave campus for the extended Thanksgiving break—which is responsible stewardship for a national university that could be exporting the virus to every corner of the country. But it came from the same university president who returned from the infamous October White House super-spreader event with COVID, after failing to take precautions to protect himself and those around him.
The COVID melodrama never stops at Notre Dame. In August there was an outbreak that shut down in-person classes for two weeks and nearly sent everyone home. Then the team had an outbreak that forced the postponement of a game against Wake Forest. Now a field storming.
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick told the South Bend Tribune that the school prepared for a field storming. Irish football coach Brian Kelly (30) flat-out predicted it to his players at their walk-through, and advised his players to hightail it for the tunnel. But if Notre Dame was actually concerned about the potential health risks associated with thousands of overjoyed fans surging onto the field and surrounding its players, there was one easy way to stop it.
Don’t put thousands of fans in the stands.
That’s what the Big Ten and Pac-12 have done. Other conferences have gone ahead with having limited numbers of fans, and the social distancing of said fans has been inconsistent. (SMU is the one school that did something about those not following protocols, booting the students out of one home game.) At many locales—including Notre Dame Saturday night—the social distancing was sketchy at best and deteriorated as the game went on.
Fact is, Notre Dame wanted some home-field advantage from its crowd of 11,011, and got it. Then it also got a field storming, and we’ll see what the ripple effect is from that.
It's probably also true that those students who stormed the field would have been joyously storming the hallways of their dorms, the bars on Eddy Street or the nearest apartment kegger. Trying to prevent the close personal contact of communal celebration in that moment was impossible, whether it was in the stadium or outside. If you have thousands of students on a college campus, and you play football, the emotions of the moment are going to overtake the discretion recommended by the administration.
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Back in the 80s I used to try to like Lou Holtz, but something deep inside of me knew he was a racist mofo. So I never warmed up to him, I guess he is who I thought he was.
Yup, racist a fuk!!!!! U right about that one.....This cracker also
I feel I have been remiss by not FULLY explaining the LEVEL of RACIST TRASH Lou holtz is...
allow me to expand.
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When Holtz was at North Carolina State, he became chummy with North Carolina's ultraconservative Senator Jesse Helms. The two men continued their friendship even after Holtz moved on to Arkansas, and in 1983 Holtz appeared in a pair of commercials endorsing Helms. The people of Arkansas were less than delighted to see one of their state employees dabbling in another state's politics, but the move was particularly toxic for Holtz because Helms was in the midst of spearheading a charge to block Martin Luther King Day from becoming a national holiday.
As the outrage over the Holtz-Helms connection gained steam, Holtz resigned under pressure from his Arkansas job on December 19, 1983. He landed on his feet with the head-coaching gig at Minnesota and quickly tried to distance himself from political issues. Upon arriving in Minnesota, Holtz met with Governor Rudy Perpich and publicly told the popular Democrat, "I assure you this, I will have nothing to do with politics."
called immigration an INVASION
this is some Hitler level sh*t
Former Notre Dame Player Reacts To Lou Holtz’s Controversial Speech
CHARLOTTE, NC - AUGUST 26: In this screenshot from the RNC’s livestream of the 2020 Republican National Convention, Former South Carolina Gamecocks football coach Lou Holtz addresses the virtual convention on August 26, 2020. The convention is being held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic but will include speeches from various locations including Charlotte, North Carolina and Washington, DC. (Photo Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via Getty Images)
A former Notre Dame football wide receiver has reacted to Lou Holtz’s controversial remarks at the Republican National Convention earlier this week.
Holtz, who coached Notre Dame from 1986-96, winning a national title in 1988, showed his support for President Trump at the convention.
“There are people today, like politicians, professors, protesters and, of course, President Trump naysayers in the media, who like to blame others for problems,” Holtz said on Wednesday. “They don’t have pride in our country and — because they no longer ask, ‘What can I do for my country?’ only what the country should be doing for them — they don’t have pride in themselves. That’s wrong.”
Holtz also took a shot at Democratic nominee Joe Biden, calling him a catholic in “name only.”
Notre Dame was quick to distance itself from Holtz’s comments.
“While Coach Lou Holtz is a former coach at Notre Dame, his use of the University’s name at the Republican National Convention must not be taken to imply that the University endorses his views, any candidate or any political party. Moreover, we Catholics should remind ourselves that while we may judge the objective moral quality of another’s actions, we must never question the sincerity of another’s faith, which is due to the mysterious working of grace in that person’s heart. In this fractious time, let us remember that our highest calling is to love,” Notre Dame’s school president said on Thursday afternoon.
One of Holtz’s former players, former wide receiver Bobby Brown, shared his reaction to the comments.
“We feel as though the hero we loved and adored, that we would run through a brick wall for, died in front of our eyes on Wednesday night,” Brown said, per the Chicago Tribune. “We have literally shed tears because of it. It seems as though you’ve abandoned us based on your alignment with a man who is at least very sympathetic to racists, if he’s not a racist himself.”
This is not the first time Holtz has said something controversial – and it likely won’t be the last time, either.
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When Holtz was at North Carolina State, he became chummy with North Carolina's ultraconservative Senator Jesse Helms. The two men continued their friendship even after Holtz moved on to Arkansas, and in 1983 Holtz appeared in a pair of commercials endorsing Helms. The people of Arkansas were less than delighted to see one of their state employees dabbling in another state's politics, but the move was particularly toxic for Holtz because Helms was in the midst of spearheading a charge to block Martin Luther King Day from becoming a national holiday.
As the outrage over the Holtz-Helms connection gained steam, Holtz resigned under pressure from his Arkansas job on December 19, 1983. He landed on his feet with the head-coaching gig at Minnesota and quickly tried to distance himself from political issues. Upon arriving in Minnesota, Holtz met with Governor Rudy Perpich and publicly told the popular Democrat, "I assure you this, I will have nothing to do with politics."
called immigration an INVASION
this is some Hitler level sh*t
Former Notre Dame Player Reacts To Lou Holtz’s Controversial Speech
CHARLOTTE, NC - AUGUST 26: In this screenshot from the RNC’s livestream of the 2020 Republican National Convention, Former South Carolina Gamecocks football coach Lou Holtz addresses the virtual convention on August 26, 2020. The convention is being held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic but will include speeches from various locations including Charlotte, North Carolina and Washington, DC. (Photo Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via Getty Images)
A former Notre Dame football wide receiver has reacted to Lou Holtz’s controversial remarks at the Republican National Convention earlier this week.
Holtz, who coached Notre Dame from 1986-96, winning a national title in 1988, showed his support for President Trump at the convention.
“There are people today, like politicians, professors, protesters and, of course, President Trump naysayers in the media, who like to blame others for problems,” Holtz said on Wednesday. “They don’t have pride in our country and — because they no longer ask, ‘What can I do for my country?’ only what the country should be doing for them — they don’t have pride in themselves. That’s wrong.”
Holtz also took a shot at Democratic nominee Joe Biden, calling him a catholic in “name only.”
Notre Dame was quick to distance itself from Holtz’s comments.
“While Coach Lou Holtz is a former coach at Notre Dame, his use of the University’s name at the Republican National Convention must not be taken to imply that the University endorses his views, any candidate or any political party. Moreover, we Catholics should remind ourselves that while we may judge the objective moral quality of another’s actions, we must never question the sincerity of another’s faith, which is due to the mysterious working of grace in that person’s heart. In this fractious time, let us remember that our highest calling is to love,” Notre Dame’s school president said on Thursday afternoon.
One of Holtz’s former players, former wide receiver Bobby Brown, shared his reaction to the comments.
“We feel as though the hero we loved and adored, that we would run through a brick wall for, died in front of our eyes on Wednesday night,” Brown said, per the Chicago Tribune. “We have literally shed tears because of it. It seems as though you’ve abandoned us based on your alignment with a man who is at least very sympathetic to racists, if he’s not a racist himself.”
This is not the first time Holtz has said something controversial – and it likely won’t be the last time, either.
Arkansas sets new record for coronavirus hospitalizations
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Sunday, November 8th 2020
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Arkansas has set a new record for total hospitalizations, with 741 reported on Sunday afternoon. (KATV)
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas has set a new record for total hospitalizations, with 741 reported on Sunday afternoon. The previous record number of hospitalizations was 722 hospitalizations, on Saturday.
Health officials reported 916 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the state with 122 probable virus cases. There are 110,932 confirmed cases of the virus in the state.
Governor Asa Hutchinson said on Twitter "There are 1,038 new COVID-19 cases in Arkansas. With yet another day of over 1,000 new cases, we are likely headed for a difficult week. Let’s all be safe and take action to protect each other. Follow the guidelines."
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The number of patients hospitalized with the virus is up by 19 with 103 on a ventilator. Deaths increased by 17 to 1,907.
The health department reported 9,833 active cases and that 99,179 Arkansans have recovered from the virus.
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Arkansas has set a new record for total hospitalizations, with 741 reported on Sunday afternoon. (KATV)
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas has set a new record for total hospitalizations, with 741 reported on Sunday afternoon. The previous record number of hospitalizations was 722 hospitalizations, on Saturday.
Health officials reported 916 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the state with 122 probable virus cases. There are 110,932 confirmed cases of the virus in the state.
Governor Asa Hutchinson said on Twitter "There are 1,038 new COVID-19 cases in Arkansas. With yet another day of over 1,000 new cases, we are likely headed for a difficult week. Let’s all be safe and take action to protect each other. Follow the guidelines."
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The number of patients hospitalized with the virus is up by 19 with 103 on a ventilator. Deaths increased by 17 to 1,907.
The health department reported 9,833 active cases and that 99,179 Arkansans have recovered from the virus.
Arkansas coach Sam Pittman tests positive for COVID-19; DC Barry Odom to serve as interim coach
Pittman is in his first season as coach of the Razorbacks
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Arkansas coach Sam Pittman has tested positive for COVID-19, the school announced on Monday. Pittman initially tested on Sunday and was informed on Monday morning that his PCR test came back positive. He was retested on Monday and is awaiting confirmation of that result.
Pittman had not experienced symptoms of the novel coronavirus as of Monday morning. Defensive coordinator Barry Odom, the former coach at Missouri (2016-19), will serve as the interim head coach until Pittman is able to return.
Pittman has entered quarantine and will follow the SEC's Return to Activity and Medical Guidance Task Force for asymptomatic testing. He will participate in team meetings virtually until he is cleared to return to the sideline.
The Razorbacks are scheduled to play No. 6 Florida on Saturday night in Gainesville. That game is on as of now. But, since all individuals who have been in close contact with Pittman will be forced to quarantine, it could be in doubt depending on who is out.
NCAA guidelines say that anybody who has been in "high risk" contact with infected individuals must be quarantined for 10 days. High risk contact is defined as being within six feet of an infected individual for at least 15 minutes without face coverings. Teams must have at least 53 scholarship players available by game time, and certain positions such as quarterback and offensive line must meet minimum positional requirements in order for the game to be played.
Pittman is in his first season as coach of the Razorbacks
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Arkansas coach Sam Pittman has tested positive for COVID-19, the school announced on Monday. Pittman initially tested on Sunday and was informed on Monday morning that his PCR test came back positive. He was retested on Monday and is awaiting confirmation of that result.
Pittman had not experienced symptoms of the novel coronavirus as of Monday morning. Defensive coordinator Barry Odom, the former coach at Missouri (2016-19), will serve as the interim head coach until Pittman is able to return.
Pittman has entered quarantine and will follow the SEC's Return to Activity and Medical Guidance Task Force for asymptomatic testing. He will participate in team meetings virtually until he is cleared to return to the sideline.
The Razorbacks are scheduled to play No. 6 Florida on Saturday night in Gainesville. That game is on as of now. But, since all individuals who have been in close contact with Pittman will be forced to quarantine, it could be in doubt depending on who is out.
NCAA guidelines say that anybody who has been in "high risk" contact with infected individuals must be quarantined for 10 days. High risk contact is defined as being within six feet of an infected individual for at least 15 minutes without face coverings. Teams must have at least 53 scholarship players available by game time, and certain positions such as quarterback and offensive line must meet minimum positional requirements in order for the game to be played.
Column: ‘Not my coach.’ Notre Dame icon Lou Holtz risks estrangement from the university and his former players with his tone-deaf RNC speech.
By SHANNON RYAN
CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
AUG 30, 2020 AT 7:00 AM
Notre Dame’s stern rebuke of former football coach Lou Holtz’s speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night was a warranted stiff-arm.
Given Notre Dame’s political straddling as a Catholic university, it was extraordinarily bold for the Rev. John Jenkins, the university president, to release a statement distancing the university from Holtz, who endorsed President Donald Trump for reelection.
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Holtz, of course, has the right to endorse any candidate he likes. Holtz’s background as a successful coach is the reason he was invited as a noted speaker to back Trump.
But when Holtz blasted protesters against police brutality, he criticized many of his former players.
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“There are people today, like politicians, professors, protesters and, of course, President Trump naysayers in the media, who like to blame others for problems,” Holtz said in a recorded RNC speech. “They don’t have pride in our country and — because they no longer ask, ‘What can I do for my country?’ only what the country should be doing for them — they don’t have pride in themselves. That’s wrong.”
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Holtz must be added to a long list of disappointing white coaches (see Ditka, Mike) and players (see Urlacher, Brian) whose proximity to Black players and teammates did nothing to open their minds or hearts. In Holtz’s case, as a college coach, he made fortunes off the unpaid labor of mostly Black players.
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And he has greatly disappointed at least some of them.
“We feel as though the hero we loved and adored, that we would run through a brick wall for, died in front of our eyes on Wednesday night,” former Notre Dame receiver Bobby Brown, who played for the Irish from 1996-99, said while hosting his web show, “Ball Hog Sports Talk.” “We have literally shed tears because of it. It seems as though you’ve abandoned us based on your alignment with a man who is at least very sympathetic to racists, if he’s not a racist himself.”
Sometimes people gain understanding when they’ve witnessed inequalities against people they love.
But not Holtz.
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Police shot and killed one of his best defensive players. Demetrius DuBose was a charismatic team captain and an All-America linebacker before the Tampa Bay Buccaneers drafted him in 1993.
In 1999, at 28, an unarmed DuBose was shot 13 times, including six times in the back. Hundreds marched in San Diego for him.
Brown mentioned several former Irish players feel Holtz betrayed them.
“This ain’t just about me,” Brown said as he wiped away tears while reading his public letter to Holtz on the podcast. “It’s about Demetrius DuBose, who you coached and was killed by police. It’s about all the Black players you coached who felt as though our lives were in jeopardy during a routine traffic stop.”
How does Holtz refuse to connect those dots? Does he mean those protesters seeking justice for DuBose and countless others — including Jacob Blake — lacked pride in themselves? Did they not care about their country?
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Pride in self and love of country are why protesters have flooded streets in countless American cities this summer.
“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually,” author James Baldwin wrote in his 1955 collection of essays, “Notes of a Native Son.”
Holtz likes to wax poetic about overcoming odds by growing up with a lisp and living in a one-bedroom home in West Virginia. His stories indicate anyone else surely can pull himself up by his imaginary bootstraps, a popular American ethos that fully ignores systemic racism.
One of many popular Holtz quips: “The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”
Holtz dropped the ball at the RNC by cruelly dismissing calls for justice as whining.
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His stances aren’t new, and they go beyond standard politics.
In the 1980s while coaching at Arkansas, his endorsement of Sen. Jesse Helms, a Republican from North Carolina who was well-known for his stance against the Civil Rights Act, caused controversy.
In 2016, Holtz agreed with Trump that NFL players kneeling during the national anthem as a protest against racial injustice should be punished. “You choose to kneel for the national anthem, you’re choosing not to play,” Holtz said. “It’s that simple.”
He has compared police killing Black people to him getting an unwarranted speeding ticket.
In a recent Fox News interview, Holtz advocated for the college football season to continue during the COVID-19 pandemic, using the illogical rationale that young soldiers fought a brutal battle in Normandy during World War II.
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In his RNC speech, Holtz also criticized Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, whom Notre Dame awarded in 2016 with the prestigious Laetare Medal honoring American Catholics. Holtz said Biden’s faith was “in name only.”
“While Coach Lou Holtz is a former coach at Notre Dame, his use of the University’s name at the Republican National Convention must not be taken to imply that the University endorses his views, any candidate or any political party,” Jenkins said in a statement.
“Moreover, we Catholics should remind ourselves that while we may judge the objective moral quality of another’s actions, we must never question the sincerity of another’s faith, which is due to the mysterious working of grace in that person’s heart. In this fractious time, let us remember that our highest calling is to love.”
Holtz was a media favorite among those he let in his inner circle at Notre Dame, where he won the 1988 national championship — the program’s last. His quotes were folksy — inspirational at best, shtick at worst.
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Holtz’s media bashing in his RNC speech also was filled with irony considering how he lapped up news coverage at Notre Dame, helping him receive the benefit of the doubt with some reporters to whom he made himself especially accessible.
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And let’s not forget, Holtz was part of “the media” as an ESPN analyst for a decade.
He is maybe more closely associated with the university than anyone who has graduated from the South Bend, Ind., campus. A statue in his likeness sits outside the stadium.
But now he risks being estranged from those he coached and who glorified him.
In his podcast, Brown said a popular phrase “among Black folks” about Trump is “not my president.” He stopped to wipe away tears and compose himself before continuing to address Holtz.
“If you don’t face the hurt you cause, you will soon hear, ‘Not my coach’ when describing you,” Brown said. “It’s that real for us.”
By SHANNON RYAN
CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
AUG 30, 2020 AT 7:00 AM
Notre Dame’s stern rebuke of former football coach Lou Holtz’s speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night was a warranted stiff-arm.
Given Notre Dame’s political straddling as a Catholic university, it was extraordinarily bold for the Rev. John Jenkins, the university president, to release a statement distancing the university from Holtz, who endorsed President Donald Trump for reelection.
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Holtz, of course, has the right to endorse any candidate he likes. Holtz’s background as a successful coach is the reason he was invited as a noted speaker to back Trump.
But when Holtz blasted protesters against police brutality, he criticized many of his former players.
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“There are people today, like politicians, professors, protesters and, of course, President Trump naysayers in the media, who like to blame others for problems,” Holtz said in a recorded RNC speech. “They don’t have pride in our country and — because they no longer ask, ‘What can I do for my country?’ only what the country should be doing for them — they don’t have pride in themselves. That’s wrong.”
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Holtz must be added to a long list of disappointing white coaches (see Ditka, Mike) and players (see Urlacher, Brian) whose proximity to Black players and teammates did nothing to open their minds or hearts. In Holtz’s case, as a college coach, he made fortunes off the unpaid labor of mostly Black players.
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And he has greatly disappointed at least some of them.
“We feel as though the hero we loved and adored, that we would run through a brick wall for, died in front of our eyes on Wednesday night,” former Notre Dame receiver Bobby Brown, who played for the Irish from 1996-99, said while hosting his web show, “Ball Hog Sports Talk.” “We have literally shed tears because of it. It seems as though you’ve abandoned us based on your alignment with a man who is at least very sympathetic to racists, if he’s not a racist himself.”
Sometimes people gain understanding when they’ve witnessed inequalities against people they love.
But not Holtz.
[Most read in Sports] Chicago Bears QB rewind: How can Nick Foles regain trust in a pocket that has proved untrustworthy so often? »
Police shot and killed one of his best defensive players. Demetrius DuBose was a charismatic team captain and an All-America linebacker before the Tampa Bay Buccaneers drafted him in 1993.
In 1999, at 28, an unarmed DuBose was shot 13 times, including six times in the back. Hundreds marched in San Diego for him.
Brown mentioned several former Irish players feel Holtz betrayed them.
“This ain’t just about me,” Brown said as he wiped away tears while reading his public letter to Holtz on the podcast. “It’s about Demetrius DuBose, who you coached and was killed by police. It’s about all the Black players you coached who felt as though our lives were in jeopardy during a routine traffic stop.”
How does Holtz refuse to connect those dots? Does he mean those protesters seeking justice for DuBose and countless others — including Jacob Blake — lacked pride in themselves? Did they not care about their country?
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Pride in self and love of country are why protesters have flooded streets in countless American cities this summer.
“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually,” author James Baldwin wrote in his 1955 collection of essays, “Notes of a Native Son.”
Holtz likes to wax poetic about overcoming odds by growing up with a lisp and living in a one-bedroom home in West Virginia. His stories indicate anyone else surely can pull himself up by his imaginary bootstraps, a popular American ethos that fully ignores systemic racism.
One of many popular Holtz quips: “The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”
Holtz dropped the ball at the RNC by cruelly dismissing calls for justice as whining.
[Most read in Sports] Time for a change? Brad Biggs’ 10 thoughts on the Chicago Bears’ Week 9 loss to the Tennessee Titans. »
His stances aren’t new, and they go beyond standard politics.
In the 1980s while coaching at Arkansas, his endorsement of Sen. Jesse Helms, a Republican from North Carolina who was well-known for his stance against the Civil Rights Act, caused controversy.
In 2016, Holtz agreed with Trump that NFL players kneeling during the national anthem as a protest against racial injustice should be punished. “You choose to kneel for the national anthem, you’re choosing not to play,” Holtz said. “It’s that simple.”
He has compared police killing Black people to him getting an unwarranted speeding ticket.
In a recent Fox News interview, Holtz advocated for the college football season to continue during the COVID-19 pandemic, using the illogical rationale that young soldiers fought a brutal battle in Normandy during World War II.
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In his RNC speech, Holtz also criticized Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, whom Notre Dame awarded in 2016 with the prestigious Laetare Medal honoring American Catholics. Holtz said Biden’s faith was “in name only.”
“While Coach Lou Holtz is a former coach at Notre Dame, his use of the University’s name at the Republican National Convention must not be taken to imply that the University endorses his views, any candidate or any political party,” Jenkins said in a statement.
“Moreover, we Catholics should remind ourselves that while we may judge the objective moral quality of another’s actions, we must never question the sincerity of another’s faith, which is due to the mysterious working of grace in that person’s heart. In this fractious time, let us remember that our highest calling is to love.”
Holtz was a media favorite among those he let in his inner circle at Notre Dame, where he won the 1988 national championship — the program’s last. His quotes were folksy — inspirational at best, shtick at worst.
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Holtz’s media bashing in his RNC speech also was filled with irony considering how he lapped up news coverage at Notre Dame, helping him receive the benefit of the doubt with some reporters to whom he made himself especially accessible.
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And let’s not forget, Holtz was part of “the media” as an ESPN analyst for a decade.
He is maybe more closely associated with the university than anyone who has graduated from the South Bend, Ind., campus. A statue in his likeness sits outside the stadium.
But now he risks being estranged from those he coached and who glorified him.
In his podcast, Brown said a popular phrase “among Black folks” about Trump is “not my president.” He stopped to wipe away tears and compose himself before continuing to address Holtz.
“If you don’t face the hurt you cause, you will soon hear, ‘Not my coach’ when describing you,” Brown said. “It’s that real for us.”
As Young Black Athletes Call for Racial Awakening, Some N.F.L. Retirees Declare Fealty to ‘Winner’ Trump
Several former athletes and coaches including Lou Holtz have appeared at the R.N.C. to deliver a message that the party wants to project — that the president is not racist. Many current Black athletes do not agree.
Lou Holtz, a former football coach, spoke in support of President Trump at the Republican convention on Wednesday.Credit...Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 RNC, via Associated Press
By Glenn Thrush
“It is a pleasure, a blessing, and an honor for me to explain why I believe that President Trump is a consistent winner,” said Lou Holtz, 83, who coached college and pro teams during a successful four-decade career.
“I am here as a servant to god, a servant to the people of our nation, and a servant to our president,” said the former Minnesota Vikings safety Jack Brewer, 41.
Mr. Trump has plenty of support among athletes, especially white ones, across a range of sports. And he has hobnobbed with many Black sports figures, most from previous generations, like Mike Tyson, Herschel Walker and Jim Brown. Some, like Mr. Walker, have appeared at the Republican National Convention, and delivered a message that the party wants to project — that the president is not racist.
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But members of the current generation of Black athletes in the N.B.A. and in other sports leagues have not personalized their protest in the same way — their movement is a broader call for social justice — and they certainly do not view themselves as Mr. Trump’s “servant.”
And the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black father who was partially paralyzed after a white officer fired seven shots into his back on Sunday in Kenosha, Wis., has revived the sense of urgency stirred by the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor by the police.
Many see the Trump era less as an exceptional moment in American history than as the resurgence of chronic patterns of oppression, discrimination and racial violence.
But the president’s gleeful culture-war attack on the former N.F.L. quarterback Colin Kaepernick — who took a knee during the national anthem four years ago Wednesday to protest racism and police shootings — and his response to the current uprising over systemic racism seems to have steeled the determination of Black athletes across many sports.
By late Wednesday, the N.B.A. stoppage had spread to the W.N.B.A., Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball. Games between the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers, the Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres, and the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants were called off just before they were scheduled to start.
“For me, I think no matter what, I wasn’t going to play tonight,” said Mookie Betts, the star Dodgers outfielder, who is Black.
The N.B.A. players are withholding their labor, it is not clear for how long, to promote an as-yet undefined campaign for systemic change that includes, but also transcends, ousting the current president.
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“BOYCOTTED, NOT *POSTPONED,” the Lakers star LeBron James, who supports Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee, wrote on his Instagram feed late Wednesday.
Even before the Milwaukee Bucks players announced their boycott of Wednesday’s playoff game, Black athletes and their coaches had been offering yearning expressions of anguish as resonant as anything uttered at either political convention.
“It’s amazing why we keep loving this country, and this country does not love us back,” said Doc Rivers, a former point guard, now coach of the Los Angeles Clippers, his eyes welling with tears as he spoke to reporters earlier this week. “It’s really so sad. Like, I should just be a coach. I’m so often reminded of my color. It’s just really sad. We got to do better. But we got to demand better.”
“Proud to know you @DocRivers,” Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors, who appeared alongside his family during the Democratic convention last week, wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. “Sometimes we don’t know what to say every time this hurt happens. We Need Change!”
Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s lawyer — whose eight-year tenure as New York City mayor included numerous episodes of police-instigated violence — ripped into Mr. Rivers during an appearance on Fox News Radio on Wednesday. “What Doc is doing is seriously misleading the African-American community,” he said. “It’s a con job the Democrats have played on them for 60 years.”
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Still, the boycott and the protests come at the worst possible time for Republicans, who have hoped to soften Mr. Trump’s negative image with Black voters, and to portray him in a kinder-gentler light with voters of all races.
One of the first speakers at the convention on Monday was Mr. Walker, a former superstar running back who played for a Trump-owned pro football team in the 1980s. “It hurts my soul to hear the terrible names that people call Donald,” he said. “The worst one is ‘racist.’”
But Mr. Walker’s comments were largely ignored on the electronic sports pages, and on social media. Most of the attention was focused on those still in the arena — younger players Instead, they were afire with outrage over Mr. Blake’s shooting, with announcers, players, coaches and owners — making passionate, and at times despondent, pleas for change.
“If not now, when?” the five-time all-star N.B.A. forward Chris Webber said on Wednesday. “We understand it’s not going to end. But that does not mean, young men, that you do not do anything. Don’t listen to these people telling you ‘Don’t do anything, because it’s not going to end right away.’ You are starting something for the next generation and the next generation to take over.”
Several former athletes and coaches including Lou Holtz have appeared at the R.N.C. to deliver a message that the party wants to project — that the president is not racist. Many current Black athletes do not agree.
Lou Holtz, a former football coach, spoke in support of President Trump at the Republican convention on Wednesday.Credit...Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 RNC, via Associated Press
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“It is a pleasure, a blessing, and an honor for me to explain why I believe that President Trump is a consistent winner,” said Lou Holtz, 83, who coached college and pro teams during a successful four-decade career.
“I am here as a servant to god, a servant to the people of our nation, and a servant to our president,” said the former Minnesota Vikings safety Jack Brewer, 41.
Mr. Trump has plenty of support among athletes, especially white ones, across a range of sports. And he has hobnobbed with many Black sports figures, most from previous generations, like Mike Tyson, Herschel Walker and Jim Brown. Some, like Mr. Walker, have appeared at the Republican National Convention, and delivered a message that the party wants to project — that the president is not racist.
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Continue reading the main story
But members of the current generation of Black athletes in the N.B.A. and in other sports leagues have not personalized their protest in the same way — their movement is a broader call for social justice — and they certainly do not view themselves as Mr. Trump’s “servant.”
And the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black father who was partially paralyzed after a white officer fired seven shots into his back on Sunday in Kenosha, Wis., has revived the sense of urgency stirred by the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor by the police.
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Many see the Trump era less as an exceptional moment in American history than as the resurgence of chronic patterns of oppression, discrimination and racial violence.
But the president’s gleeful culture-war attack on the former N.F.L. quarterback Colin Kaepernick — who took a knee during the national anthem four years ago Wednesday to protest racism and police shootings — and his response to the current uprising over systemic racism seems to have steeled the determination of Black athletes across many sports.
By late Wednesday, the N.B.A. stoppage had spread to the W.N.B.A., Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball. Games between the Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers, the Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres, and the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants were called off just before they were scheduled to start.
“For me, I think no matter what, I wasn’t going to play tonight,” said Mookie Betts, the star Dodgers outfielder, who is Black.
The N.B.A. players are withholding their labor, it is not clear for how long, to promote an as-yet undefined campaign for systemic change that includes, but also transcends, ousting the current president.
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- A week after the election, many House and two Senate races are undecided.
- Someone’s got to tell Trump he lost, but Republicans are loath to raise their hands.
- In hopes of keeping his hold on the G.O.P., Trump plans a leadership PAC.
“BOYCOTTED, NOT *POSTPONED,” the Lakers star LeBron James, who supports Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee, wrote on his Instagram feed late Wednesday.
Even before the Milwaukee Bucks players announced their boycott of Wednesday’s playoff game, Black athletes and their coaches had been offering yearning expressions of anguish as resonant as anything uttered at either political convention.
“It’s amazing why we keep loving this country, and this country does not love us back,” said Doc Rivers, a former point guard, now coach of the Los Angeles Clippers, his eyes welling with tears as he spoke to reporters earlier this week. “It’s really so sad. Like, I should just be a coach. I’m so often reminded of my color. It’s just really sad. We got to do better. But we got to demand better.”
“Proud to know you @DocRivers,” Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors, who appeared alongside his family during the Democratic convention last week, wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. “Sometimes we don’t know what to say every time this hurt happens. We Need Change!”
Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s lawyer — whose eight-year tenure as New York City mayor included numerous episodes of police-instigated violence — ripped into Mr. Rivers during an appearance on Fox News Radio on Wednesday. “What Doc is doing is seriously misleading the African-American community,” he said. “It’s a con job the Democrats have played on them for 60 years.”
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Still, the boycott and the protests come at the worst possible time for Republicans, who have hoped to soften Mr. Trump’s negative image with Black voters, and to portray him in a kinder-gentler light with voters of all races.
One of the first speakers at the convention on Monday was Mr. Walker, a former superstar running back who played for a Trump-owned pro football team in the 1980s. “It hurts my soul to hear the terrible names that people call Donald,” he said. “The worst one is ‘racist.’”
But Mr. Walker’s comments were largely ignored on the electronic sports pages, and on social media. Most of the attention was focused on those still in the arena — younger players Instead, they were afire with outrage over Mr. Blake’s shooting, with announcers, players, coaches and owners — making passionate, and at times despondent, pleas for change.
“If not now, when?” the five-time all-star N.B.A. forward Chris Webber said on Wednesday. “We understand it’s not going to end. But that does not mean, young men, that you do not do anything. Don’t listen to these people telling you ‘Don’t do anything, because it’s not going to end right away.’ You are starting something for the next generation and the next generation to take over.”
Editorial: Lou Holtz a poor choice for Cathedral event
El Paso Times Editorial Board
Cathedral High School leaders made an unfortunate decision in choosing football coach Lou Holtz to headline a fundraiser for the school’s athletic programs.
Holtz, a former coach at Notre Dame, last month lobbed hate-filled rhetoric at immigrants, who happen to be a major part of Cathedral’s historic mission. The school welcomes students from both El Paso and Juarez.
Speaking at an event during the Republican National Convention, Holtz – who endorsed GOP nominee Donald Trump this spring – talked of the importance of immigrants assimilating when they come to the United States.
“I don’t want to become you,” Holtz said. “I don’t want to speak your language, I don’t want to celebrate your holidays, I sure as hell don’t want to cheer for your soccer team!”
He will, however, take your money to speak at Cathedral’s gala dinner and dance Oct. 20.
At the same luncheon last month, Holtz decided to reiterate Mitt Romney’s disastrous allegation that almost half the country votes for Democrats because they’re deadbeats. Here, again, Holtz is talking about El Paso, a city with a long history of supporting Democratic candidates.
“A lot of people make a living by the way they vote. Forty-seven percent of people make a living by the way they vote,” Holtz said. “They can make a living by the way they vote, but they can’t make a life.”
Holtz, of course, has every right to express his opinion, no matter how odious. And Cathedral administration and supporters can invite whoever they choose to help boost the school.
But parents, alumni and other supporters also have an opportunity to express their feelings.
Julio Chiu sent two sons to Cathedral.
“To have Holtz as a speaker goes against all the values the school has stood for generations,” Chiu said. “To presume the invitation opens the door to change the mindset of a person who's found in Trump a champion to his misguided racist ideas is a disservice to the community and a fallacy. Stand up to hate and false prophets and their disciples, cancel Holtz and you will have truly stood for what Cathedral represents.”
Cathedral is a Catholic Lasallian college preparatory school. The Lasallian education tradition is based on five core principles: Faith in the presence of God; concern for the poor and social justice; respect for all persons; quality education; and inclusive community.
Holtz is a highly successful football coach, but his hateful words last month run counter to many of the principles that have made Cathedral such an important part of the El Paso community.
Surely, Cathedral could have found a guest speaker for the gala who models the school’s values and celebrates the immigrant tradition that has made Cathedral and El Paso so unique.
El Paso Times Editorial Board
Cathedral High School leaders made an unfortunate decision in choosing football coach Lou Holtz to headline a fundraiser for the school’s athletic programs.
Holtz, a former coach at Notre Dame, last month lobbed hate-filled rhetoric at immigrants, who happen to be a major part of Cathedral’s historic mission. The school welcomes students from both El Paso and Juarez.
Speaking at an event during the Republican National Convention, Holtz – who endorsed GOP nominee Donald Trump this spring – talked of the importance of immigrants assimilating when they come to the United States.
“I don’t want to become you,” Holtz said. “I don’t want to speak your language, I don’t want to celebrate your holidays, I sure as hell don’t want to cheer for your soccer team!”
He will, however, take your money to speak at Cathedral’s gala dinner and dance Oct. 20.
At the same luncheon last month, Holtz decided to reiterate Mitt Romney’s disastrous allegation that almost half the country votes for Democrats because they’re deadbeats. Here, again, Holtz is talking about El Paso, a city with a long history of supporting Democratic candidates.
“A lot of people make a living by the way they vote. Forty-seven percent of people make a living by the way they vote,” Holtz said. “They can make a living by the way they vote, but they can’t make a life.”
Holtz, of course, has every right to express his opinion, no matter how odious. And Cathedral administration and supporters can invite whoever they choose to help boost the school.
But parents, alumni and other supporters also have an opportunity to express their feelings.
Julio Chiu sent two sons to Cathedral.
“To have Holtz as a speaker goes against all the values the school has stood for generations,” Chiu said. “To presume the invitation opens the door to change the mindset of a person who's found in Trump a champion to his misguided racist ideas is a disservice to the community and a fallacy. Stand up to hate and false prophets and their disciples, cancel Holtz and you will have truly stood for what Cathedral represents.”
Cathedral is a Catholic Lasallian college preparatory school. The Lasallian education tradition is based on five core principles: Faith in the presence of God; concern for the poor and social justice; respect for all persons; quality education; and inclusive community.
Holtz is a highly successful football coach, but his hateful words last month run counter to many of the principles that have made Cathedral such an important part of the El Paso community.
Surely, Cathedral could have found a guest speaker for the gala who models the school’s values and celebrates the immigrant tradition that has made Cathedral and El Paso so unique.
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo tests positive for COVID-19
Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, the school announced.
Izzo, 65, had a presumptive positive test during the Big Ten's daily antigen testing on Monday morning, which was confirmed by a PCR test. Izzo will isolate for 10 days and can return to the team on Nov. 17 at the earliest.
Izzo said he felt a little bit of a cough and some chills on Saturday and Sunday but did not have a fever and tested negative both days.
"I've been beating my brains out to figure out where and how [I got the virus], but I think I've been as diligent as anybody," Izzo told reporters on a video call Monday. "Which just goes to show ... how serious maybe the virus is. I know for a fact that I wasn't at any big parties ... I've been just kind of sitting in my own house and going to work.
"Where I got it, I have no clue."
Izzo said he will spend isolation working out and watching film.
"Technology will allow me to stay connected with my staff and our players, and I'll have plenty of time to watch film," Izzo said in a statement. "I'll listen to our outstanding medical staff, and follow their directions and take all the steps necessary to return as soon as possible.
"I appreciate the support from my family, my team and the Michigan State fan base, but if I could ask for one favor, I'd urge everyone to continue to listen to the medical experts and follow their advice. I'm proof that no one is immune, but I still believe that there are steps everyone can take to reduce their chances of contracting the virus."
Associate head coach Dwayne Stephens will run practices until Izzo returns. The school said no other members of the program have tested positive since daily testing began on Oct. 26.
The 2020-21 college basketball season is scheduled to begin on Nov. 25
Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, the school announced.
Izzo, 65, had a presumptive positive test during the Big Ten's daily antigen testing on Monday morning, which was confirmed by a PCR test. Izzo will isolate for 10 days and can return to the team on Nov. 17 at the earliest.
Izzo said he felt a little bit of a cough and some chills on Saturday and Sunday but did not have a fever and tested negative both days.
"I've been beating my brains out to figure out where and how [I got the virus], but I think I've been as diligent as anybody," Izzo told reporters on a video call Monday. "Which just goes to show ... how serious maybe the virus is. I know for a fact that I wasn't at any big parties ... I've been just kind of sitting in my own house and going to work.
"Where I got it, I have no clue."
Izzo said he will spend isolation working out and watching film.
"Technology will allow me to stay connected with my staff and our players, and I'll have plenty of time to watch film," Izzo said in a statement. "I'll listen to our outstanding medical staff, and follow their directions and take all the steps necessary to return as soon as possible.
"I appreciate the support from my family, my team and the Michigan State fan base, but if I could ask for one favor, I'd urge everyone to continue to listen to the medical experts and follow their advice. I'm proof that no one is immune, but I still believe that there are steps everyone can take to reduce their chances of contracting the virus."
Associate head coach Dwayne Stephens will run practices until Izzo returns. The school said no other members of the program have tested positive since daily testing began on Oct. 26.
The 2020-21 college basketball season is scheduled to begin on Nov. 25
Yeah man, I was watching when they stormed the field. None of these college kids give a fuck man. They been partying for months now. Their IFR is so low they will never give a fuck.
One big issue for me has always been that we don't know what the long term implications are for the young/healthy after they get the disease
Also, can you imagine if baseball had a NBA style bubble with no infections/issues and the NBA was going through what the NFL/CFB are?
No doubt. I heard everything from heart to brain issues. Problem is people going to go by IFR and any immediate problems. We definitely ain't going to get young people to think about what might happen 5 or 10 years down the line.One big issue for me has always been that we don't know what the long term implications are for the young/healthy after they get the disease
Also, can you imagine if baseball had a NBA style bubble with no infections/issues and the NBA was going through what the NFL/CFB are?
I think it's hard with these coaches to. They tend to have the 'walk it off' personalities to begin with. It sort of comes with the territory. They had this shit basically run through entire teams without one hospitalization. Can't tell them shit. We had one player die and he was 350 and didn't get treatment until it was too late.
It's just going to be no arguing with these people from an immediate threat perspective. We about to see with the NBA. They kick off in about a month with no bubble. 72 games man. Going by the NFL/MLB/CFB, it will just be cats taking 2 weeks off and no major issues with hospitalizations. But like you said, long-term effects unknown.
Big Ben among 4 to go on Steelers' COVID list
Ben Roethlisberger and three other Steelers players -- Jerald Hawkins, Jaylen Samuels and Vince Williams -- were added to the reserve/COVID-19 list Tuesday as high-risk contacts.
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As high-risk contacts, Roethlisberger, OL Jerald Hawkins, RB Jaylen Samuels and LB Vince Williams must isolate for five days after their last contact with McDonald, and they cannot return to the UPMC Rooney practice facility for at least those five days. They are allowed to participate in team meetings virtually.
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All four will be tested throughout the week before possibly being eligible to play Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals.
While Roethlisberger is said to have "been diligent" with his behavior around others in regards to the pandemic, he has been seen on the sidelines talking to McDonald without wearing a mask. The two are friends and have lockers close to each other. Roethlisberger, however, has not tested positive.
The NFL's Dr. Allen Sills previously said the deciding factor for high-risk designation is often determined by whether the person had close contact while not wearing a mask.
McDonald was placed on the COVID-19 list Monday night after his positive test and must isolate for at least 10 days.
The team remains in the intensive COVID-19 protocol dating to last week after Baltimore Ravens DB Marlon Humphrey tested positive following the Steelers-Ravens game.
The Steelers can look to the Ravens' timeline with Humphrey's positive test on Nov. 2 for an idea of how this week could go.
Humphrey was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list on Monday to begin his 10-day quarantine. The next day, the Ravens placed seven players identified as high-risk contacts of Humphrey on the list. Matthew Judon was removed from the list Thursday, while the other six were activated Saturday. Six of the players played in Sunday's win against the Indianapolis Colts. Now, only Humphrey remains on the list.
Throughout the season, Roethlisberger has been a vocal advocate of taking precautions to minimize the spread of COVID-19.
"We need to be cautious, be careful and protect each other," Roethlisberger said in October. "Fans are allowed in the stadium, which means we're allowed to have guests in town and things like that. In the Roethlisberger family, we're not changing anything. No guests are coming in town. But there are a few challenges that have been presented and so hopefully guys can continue to be as cautious and as careful as we have been to this point."
No doubt. I heard everything from heart to brain issues. Problem is people going to go by IFR and any immediate problems. We definitely ain't going to get young people to think about what might happen 5 or 10 years down the line.
I think it's hard with these coaches to. They tend to have the 'walk it off' personalities to begin with. It sort of comes with the territory. They had this shit basically run through entire teams without one hospitalization. Can't tell them shit. We had one player die and he was 350 and didn't get treatment until it was too late.
We about to see with the NBA. They kick off in about a month with no bubble. 72 games man. Going by the NFL/MLB/CFB, it will just be cats taking 2 weeks off and no major issues with hospitalizations. But like you said, long-term effects unknown.
What i tell you cuz?
Maryland and seton hall shut down
No big 10 games gonna be made up
Wtf?!?
SEC 4 games postponed
his stock portfolio must be falling hard, or the person who pays him. lmao
Yeah man, it is ugly. These greedy bastards ain't about to quit though.
Have you seen how much CFB is worth to some of those SEC towns?
Yeah man, it is ugly. These greedy bastards ain't about to quit though.
yup so i UNDERSTAND
but your kids lives?
SPREADING this sh*t to elderly and high risk
the UNKNOWN long term effects?
THE KNOWN LONG TERM EFFECTS
I got NO PITY on these old white coaches coming up positive and then we find out later...
it aint so simple.
NONE.
I get but man oh man
a day of reckoning is coming REAL soon for a WHOLE lot of people
ESPECIALLY parents and officials.
hope they really to pay up and face the music
Yeah man, it is ugly. These greedy bastards ain't about to quit though.