re: Bama Football Tidings

Evan Neal just said he weighed 385lbs when he arrived on campus last year. My goodness. Down to 355 now

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I haven't seen any article(s) describing the quarantine rules that you've described. How about posting links to the article(s) you've read about them?

Thanks.

SEC MEDICAL GUIDANCE TASK FORCE
REQUIREMENTS FOR COVID-19 MANAGEMENT: FALL SPORTS (PDF)

Also, the situation with Barmore is pretty simple. He's in his 3rd year at Alabama. He's a great DL, but what has kept him off the field from what I understand, is that he has not been reliable to do his assignment every play. He tries to be the hero too much, when sometimes he just needs to fill a gap. So for every big play he makes, he's in the wrong place for another play that gives up a big play. Either he matures out of this, learns the playbook and executes his dang job instead of trying to get on Sports Center, or he will be replaced with less talented guys who will do their job consistently. Really, at this point, 3rd year, no excuses for Barmore. Hopefully he takes the challenge, and frankly, glad to hear someone gave him an "arse chewing" for not doing his job. He's an upperclassman now, and needs to start acting and playing like it.

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Do the guidelines still not allow for a subsequent negative test to overcome the mandated 14 day quarantine for what they have defined as high risk exposures? Because if not then I really don't understand why y'all are so optimistic that this season will last very long. If they decide to only quarantine guys who actually test positive then I think you'll have teams without some starters here and there but it will otherwise be OK. If they're going to exclude kids who actually test negative because they were too close to a positive for too long though? shite, all it will take is one lineman testing positive to wipe out 20 players for a couple of weeks.

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The definition that I mentioned earlier about "contact tracing" and being out of commission for 14 days was off a CBSSports site in regard to Tennessee having to sit 44 players from scrimmage.

"NCAA guidelines regarding COVID-19 say that players who test positive must sit for 10 days and have three days without symptoms before returning to action. Players who have been determined to have "high-risk" contact with players who test positive are required to sit for 14 days. "High-risk" contact is defined as being within 6 feet of somebody who tests positive for 15 or more minutes without face covering."
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If this is so, it's ridiculous and I have no idea how anyone can play football with such a stupid, asinine rule. Contact tracing would be more punitive than actually testing positive. Could you just imagine an entire position group and everyone they practiced against having to sit for 14 days because one player tested positive?

That's just crazy. Why even attempt something that is going to be this ridiculously monitored?

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what has kept him off the field from what I understand, is that he has not been reliable to do his assignment every play.

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Bingo. What Saban (and almost any good coach) values above talent is consistently doing your job to the best of your ability. If a player can't be trusted to not screw up, he's not going to play ahead of a guy who can do the assignment ... even if that guy is a step slower or not as impressive on the hoof.

We keep having these discussions over and over, about such-and-such freshman not playing when a "less-talented" upperclassman does, but it's really simple: Saban wants to know each player on the field understands their role and will do their job on every play. Until a player proves that, he's not seeing the field (barring catastrophic injury luck or other depth issues).

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Typically you know within 5 days though. So why not retest them then and if negative let it roll?

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Fear, I guess. I can't think of an actual, logical reason.

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"NCAA guidelines regarding COVID-19

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I am not sure why we have to listen to anything the NCAA says. They have no control of who plays and who does not this fall. They do not have any say in postseason schedules. But yet somehow they always seem to find one little area to get involved that really adds no value to the sport

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If this is so, it's ridiculous and I have no idea how anyone can play football

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That has been the problem all along. Even with the conferences playing this fall the issue was going to be the guidance we had to follow. They would have been better starting the season the week before Labor Day or Labor Day weekend and only playing 8 or 9 games and having a game every 2 weeks. This would have allowed 14 days between games to quarantine players if needed.

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I am not sure why we have to listen to anything the NCAA says.

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It’s pretty clear the NCAA is obsolete and on the way out. We’ll probably see someone like Saban be the commissioner soon and have some kind of “board of trustees” or something