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DeppDogg
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Maybe at least consider the NFL model? Allowing players to "test out" of quarantine? Based on Sankey's data, using an 85-man roster, you're talking about FOUR players (and that's league-wide / for a given team it could be 1, or 2) testing positive. Meaning 99.5% of your team is testing negative but you can't play because they have "been around" the positive-testing players.
With the NFL plan, those who do not have the virus simply do not have the virus and they can play. How do you know who might have the virus? TEST them. Which is what they do (and the SEC already does).
Uh, by the way, didn't Nick Saban just "test out" of quarantine for the UGA game? Might ask Sankey about that, or at least whether or not they've looked at the NFL model.
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Spdawg
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How about instead of twisting themselves to reschedule, we require teams to either play the game or forfeit? You have 85 scholarship players plus walk ons. How is it that hard to find 30 healthy bodies or so to play a game?
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ShoottheHooch
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So, at a .005 rate, it is safe to assume very few if any UF players were actually positive and sick from COVID yet the SEC ensured they got a competitive advantage over the Dawgs playing just one game in three weeks. Any thought that Mullen adhered to the quarantine protocol for players who were tested negative but required to quarantine based on SEC mandates for contact tracing is pure idiocy! The UF coaches and players spent the normal three to four days prepping for Missouri and 17 to 18 days preparing for the Dawgs. I would bet on it!
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UGA66
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It is the contact tracing that is the make or break with these games. Sankey is trying to hold the season together...you can tell by what he says. I think he is doing a great job so far. No date set yet for UGA-MO. The ripple out effect affecting other teams has to be a major headache.
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ScoreCheck
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I know this is a tough time for Sankey and the SEC. But I truly believe is everyone does the "Tighten Up" things will work out for the best.