OT: Ryan Day tests positive for COVID-19
November 27th, 2020 at 3:56 PM ^
Crazy that they are going to let OSU play Illinois. I assume it's because the big ten doesn't want OSU to fall below 6 games played and miss a chance at a big ten championship.
November 27th, 2020 at 3:58 PM ^
No, I believe it is because they are well below the threshold required to cancel a game.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:23 PM ^
Didn't one report say that eight players tested positive? That would seem to be above the 5 % threshold.
November 27th, 2020 at 6:28 PM ^
The B1G conference 5% rule is misunderstood. It is based on a 7 day rolling average. On an average week a team would administer several hundred tests.
November 27th, 2020 at 6:35 PM ^
Rolling averages make sense for populations in the tens of thousands, when you're testing different people every day. For a team of 110 players it's pointless. If a player tests positive today, it really doesn't matter if he tested negative in the 3 days prior.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:08 PM ^
We all know the rules that apply to U of M and the rest of the Big Ten , dont apply to OSU .
November 27th, 2020 at 5:35 PM ^
Let’s not forget that Harbaugh was one of the biggest “LET US PLAY!” proponents after the B10 had cancelled the season. So he’s as much responsible as anyone else for OSU being given every chance possible by the conference to go to the CFP, or for what they’re going to do to us in a few weeks.
November 27th, 2020 at 6:37 PM ^
This is a straw man. Harbaugh's argument wasn't that anything should go, but that it was possible for a team for play a season without serious outbreak if its players followed proper guidelines.
November 27th, 2020 at 8:06 PM ^
Harbaugh loudly and publicly claimed that UM had followed proper protocols and should be allowed to play because it just wasn’t fair to punish them. Which is all well and good except for the fact you need other teams to have actual games and the Big 10 wasn’t going to only allow the teams that it deemed had/would act properly to be the ones who got to play.
It was an all or nothing proposition and it’s ridiculous to think that, should the season be started, Harbaugh didn’t understand that the other schools were going to just act in their own interests, breaking whatever protocols were necessary, to the detriment of the whole conference.
I think it’s BS OSU is going to be allowed to do what they need to in order to make the B10 title game, but I’m sick of this false narrative that they alone somehow strong armed Kevin Warren into reinstating the season. In addition to OSU’s actions you had Nebraska threatening to leave the conference and several coaches, including Harbaugh, going public with their statements that they disagreed with the B10 and their own school presidents and season just HAD to be played.
Well they all got the half assed season they so loudly pined for. One that is only going to benefit OSU and possibly Northwestern and Indiana in any meaningful way. I know it’s not a popular take around here to not just dump it all on OSU and say it’s all their fault, but that just isn’t true.
November 28th, 2020 at 10:37 AM ^
This is not the situation. Fact pattern A) Harbaugh puts protocols in place and urges the Big Ten to put protocols in place and let the teams who abide by those protocols play. B) One team breaks protocol (intent irrelevant) and is now being punished for breaking protocol. I don't see a comparison anywhere.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:43 PM ^
Correct. The OSU Illinois game will be played at all costs.
$$$
November 27th, 2020 at 4:47 PM ^
Illinois should pull an FSU?
November 27th, 2020 at 5:10 PM ^
Yes, but I'm sure they been given the same reasons ($$$) to play as they were to agree to have the season.
November 27th, 2020 at 5:26 PM ^
We should!
November 27th, 2020 at 4:00 PM ^
CO - H
I - VID
November 27th, 2020 at 4:01 PM ^
This certainly isn’t OT.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:04 PM ^
Do coaches have to sit out 3 weeks or is that just players? If yes he can't coach until the 9th week.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:06 PM ^
10 days for coaches I believe .
November 27th, 2020 at 6:32 PM ^
Big Ten treats coaches like normal people in society (10 days from positive test/symptoms).
Athletes are treated differently (21 days) in order to give extra time for a cardiologist to clear for possible myocarditis (heart inflammation).
November 27th, 2020 at 4:09 PM ^
He and Saban must've been hanging out with the same bagman.
November 28th, 2020 at 7:35 AM ^
Money is dirty and can go viral quickly.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:11 PM ^
Feels like we're going to get a drip drip of guys being out with COVID for teams like OSU but just enough to not get th game cancelled.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:23 PM ^
For the protection of our players, we should cancel The Game right now.
November 27th, 2020 at 5:18 PM ^
I think generally Michigan should protect its players from all communicable diseases and not play OSU most years.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:12 PM ^
....and by sacrificing Illinois, Ohio State is eligible for the title game.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:30 PM ^
How? Don’t they have to play 6 games? This is only game 5 for them.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:13 PM ^
No doubt he gets the Nick Saban, fly my snot on a private jet, treatment. Let's hope he actually quarantines instead of exposing others (like every other dipsh*t in charge seems to enjoy doing).
November 27th, 2020 at 4:26 PM ^
References? I wasn’t aware Nick Saban got anyone sick. Saban also very likely had a false positive or a viral load detected that was clinically irrelevant indicating exposure but not infection.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:22 PM ^
There is a God!
November 27th, 2020 at 4:23 PM ^
Ok, so only Day has covid and no one else? If this ain't fishy I don't know what is.
November 27th, 2020 at 5:44 PM ^
Multiple reports of OSU players (and now Coach Day) testing positive. They're releasing the depth chart tomorrow morning... but we're certainly expecting some starters out. As long as they don't reach the B1G threshold for cancellation, and Illinois still wants to play, the game is on as scheduled.
November 27th, 2020 at 6:23 PM ^
Illinois was hit hard by the virus earlier in the season, but didn't reach B1G thresholds and played. I am sure they don't feel sorry for an opponent down a few starters.
No reason the game shouldn't be played as long as testing from the traveling party comes back negative pregame.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:39 PM ^
WTF? Urban Meyer coaching them?
https://twitter.com/barstooltate/status/1332431495621959681?s=21
November 27th, 2020 at 4:44 PM ^
For sure, if it’s on Twitter it’s totally true. Can’t believe it either.
November 27th, 2020 at 5:23 PM ^
Next tweet says it's total sarcasm.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:44 PM ^
Clemson’s game last week was canceled because of 1 player testing positive. But osu can have 8 and that’s okay. The big ten caters to there fucking asses
November 27th, 2020 at 5:40 PM ^
Good lord you are a dullard, arent you? The ACC didnt cancel the game, Florida St. did. If Illinois were to cancel due to "Covid concerns", the situation would be comparable.
November 27th, 2020 at 10:19 PM ^
Uh, Florida State cancelled the game much to Clemson’s dismay. It was kind of a big story.
November 27th, 2020 at 4:56 PM ^
For those Big Ten games that have been cancelled I wonder how many players for those teams were infected?
November 27th, 2020 at 5:10 PM ^
Yeah, it would be interesting to know the answer to that question. Has OSU passed he infection rate that made other Big 10 teams cancel games?
And are they being completely truthful about their infection numbers at this time.
OSU would be the one Big 10 team with most incentive to want to hold back the whole truth in order to keep playing games.
November 27th, 2020 at 10:28 PM ^
And do you honestly think that, if we were undefeated with a shot at the CFP at this point, that UM would be completely forthcoming with information that could possibly jeopardize their chances?
Enough this holier than thou crap. Any other school in OSU’s position would suddenly be a whole lot more hesitant to share the entire truth if things took a turn for the worse.
November 27th, 2020 at 5:37 PM ^
For anybody wondering why the game is still a go, it’s because positivity rate for a team is based on a 7 day rolling average. Rumors are that OSU may have 8-10 total players/staff that have tested positive. Given the time frame, their 7 day rolling average would still be well below 5 percent assuming the first positives happened on Wednesday.
It’s also my understanding that this game very well may not even happen still. OSU has performed PCR tests this afternoon on all players who plan to play tomorrow and the team isn’t even traveling until tomorrow morning as they await the results of those tests.
Despite everyone thinking that the Big Ten is somehow catering to them, so far they are playing by the rules and trying to take necessary precautions, or so it seems.
November 27th, 2020 at 9:46 PM ^
That's a lot of takes without any sources based on rumors.
Seems rigged, I want a recount.
November 27th, 2020 at 10:25 PM ^
It’s just easier for everyone here to bitch that the B10 is in the bag for OSU instead of looking at the numbers critically. Or to just admit that this whole season is a huge cluster fuck that Harbaugh had a hand in helping make happen with his comments about it not being “fair” to UM after the initial decision to scratch the season was made, and subsequent public lobbying to start playing games even after weeks had passed.
November 27th, 2020 at 5:47 PM ^
Well, now we know that pedophilic ferrets can get COVID
November 27th, 2020 at 6:03 PM ^
We also know you’re still an asshole
November 27th, 2020 at 5:47 PM ^
Hoping he gets better soon. Always, with anyone.
November 27th, 2020 at 6:08 PM ^
Hopefully Day recovers soon, you don't wish stuff like this on anyone. This being said, one has to wonder just how bad the outbreak really is at Ohio State right now.
November 27th, 2020 at 6:09 PM ^
That fat fuck better take care of himself.