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2020 Team Discussion Thread

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Tanner said:
Anyone hear why they decided to start on the 24th instead of the 17th and not give themselves a chance to have an open date for each team?
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I’m speculating, but I believe it has to do with the Big 10 testing plan.

The Big 10 will be testing daily (the most of any conference) and using a rapid test.

But that process takes time to setup. Labs across the Big 10 campuses will need to be certified and that takes some time.

I think the Oct 23rd/24th start date reflects the time needed to get all Big 10 teams ready for the rapid tests they plan on conducting, starting Oct 1.

And remember, any player who tests positive is out 21 days. So I think expectation is many players will test positive Oct 1, and they’ve built in a mechanism to handle that situation by starting games on the 23rd/24th.
 
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billmac91 said:
I’m speculating, but I believe it has to do with the Big 10 testing plan.

The Big 10 will be testing daily (the most of any conference) and using a rapid test.

But that process takes time to setup. Labs across the Big 10 campuses will need to be certified and that takes some time.

I think the Oct 23rd/24th start date reflects the time needed to get all Big 10 teams ready for the rapid tests they plan on conducting, starting Oct 1.

And remember, and player who tests positive is out 21 days. So I think expectation is many players will test positive Oct 1, and they’ve built in a mechanism to handle that situation by starting games on the 23rd/24th.
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Also, on the testing, it’s worth noting not if a player is positive on a rapid rest, they receive a PCR test; and it takes a positive result on that as well before the player is out. Important so that false positives don’t nail guys.
 
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Tanner said:
Pretty light schedule. No Minnasohta or Wisconsin. Good to have Penn State early on the schedule to hopefully at least have 1 marquee W if there's chaos later on.
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I haven't looked at the rest of the league's schedule close enough yet but it looks like it's set up to where they'll all likely hang another L on each other.

Almost zero doubt OSU has to go 9-0 and do it pretty convincingly. We'll win no beauty contest with the schedule this year (not that we ever do).
 
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