ESPN: NCAA Division I Council approves six-week practice plan for football

[Taji34]

Per ESPN:

The NCAA Division I Council on Wednesday approved a six-week practice plan for football that begins in July and will transition teams from the current voluntary workouts amid the coronavirus pandemic to the typical mandatory meetings and preseason camps to prepare for the 2020 season.

NCAA Division I Council approves six-week practice plan for football

The NCAA Division I Council on Wednesday approved a six-week practice plan for football that begins in July and will transition teams from the current voluntary workouts amid the coronavirus pandemic to the typical mandatory meetings and preseason camps.

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[MplsGopher]

It's the normal fall camp, with a couple more weeks tacked on the front where you can do stuff above and beyond the normal summer weight lifting and conditioning schedule. But still limited to 8 hrs a week I believe. Something like that.

Not gonna be six-week fall camp.

 

[hungan1]

Looking ahead onto the season, don't the Gophers have Sunday scrimmages? Will that be stopped? IMHO, that is a big part of their conditioning and success on the field. Especially for the backups.

 

[builtbadgers]

As a side note 23 Clemson players have tested positive for Covid as of today. If we are going to have games it is very possible to be missing a dozen or more players the day before a game.

 

[MplsGopher]

As a side note 23 Clemson players have tested positive for Covid as of today. If we are going to have games it is very possible to be missing a dozen or more players the day before a game.

Not encouraging this in the slightest, but I simply wonder if it may (quietly) come to be true: everyone on the team purposefully gets themselves infected now or very soon.

Idea being, young people are thought to almost be guaranteed an asymptomatic experience, and then they'd very likely be ensured to have immunity at least through the season (probably longer).

 

[Jordekorn]

Not encouraging this in the slightest, but I simply wonder if it may (quietly) come to be true: everyone on the team purposefully gets themselves infected now or very soon.

Idea being, young people are thought to almost be guaranteed an asymptomatic experience, and then they'd very likely be ensured to have immunity at least through the season (probably longer).

Also not encouraging this. I do know that as a younger athlete who played through and kept injuries secret to stay on the field, I absolutely would have. Hindsight and a further developed frontal lobe has changed my outlook, but young competitive athletes seem to carry similar traits.

 

[Com_Cool]

Not encouraging this in the slightest, but I simply wonder if it may (quietly) come to be true: everyone on the team purposefully gets themselves infected now or very soon.

Idea being, young people are thought to almost be guaranteed an asymptomatic experience, and then they'd very likely be ensured to have immunity at least through the season (probably longer).

It's a bold strategy. The current research suggests that the detectable antibodies last about 2-3 months for asymptomatic patients (source below) with some heavy disclaimers that make this sentence almost meaningless.

Disclaimers: The authors say this does not necessarily mean these people would stop being immune as it may only require a low concentration of the antibody to maintain immunity. Also, this is a small sample size of a population unlikely to be comparable to collegiate athletes.

Clinical and immunological assessment of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections - Nature Medicine

A cohort of asymptomatic patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 had significantly lower levels of virus-specific IgG antibodies compared to a cohort of age- and sex-matched symptomatic infected patients.

www.nature.com