Knowing that some schools may bear the cost of such regular tests, the players asked the conference to ask Stanford, whose medical school recently received federal approval for pool testing, which greatly increases test capacity and efficiency, to make it available. for the other schools at full cost.
“This virus does not look like you if you are a professional or an amateur; it has the potential to hurt, “Daltoso said, explaining why players want the same protections the NFL offers as teams begin to block and tackle and cannot distance themselves socially.” We play a full contact sport; “I think boys made it very clear that elaboration is not the problem. We are 10 days away from practice – we do not need guidelines, we need mandates, rules that schools have to follow throughout the conference.”
The players said Scott told them that the conference could not impose test standards on their universities, citing a 17-page pamphlet outlining the conference recommendations. If schools do not follow the recommendations, the players said Scott told them, “We hope to discuss that.”
“That’s not enough,” Daltoso said. “We ask the schools to follow concrete mandates.”
The need for such mandates was underscored, the players said, by recent cases in which players have long been and annoyance of the virus – including the case of Brady Feeney, a New Year’s man at Indiana whose mother posted on Facebook that he may have been facing heart problems and his blood work had affected doctors.
The players told Scott several times to ask the players to take them off if they were uncomfortable playing, but that, they said, brought up his own concerns. Two players at Washington State, receiver Kassidy Woods and defensive line Dallas Hobbs, said that after agreeing to the #WeAreUnited group, Coach Nick Rolovich said they would be treated differently, and they could not see doctors or trainers or use the food. hall and was removed from a team messaging app. (Hobbs responded to Thursday’s call.)
On the call, Harlan, the Utah athletic director, told the group that Utah players who choose them would have the same access to mental health, food and health care services that the rest of the team had, but that team facilities use to to stay in shape could be problematic.
But Nick Ford, a senior offensive lineman in Utah, said that when he sought clarity on the question of whether the policy Harlan drafted applied more broadly, Scott told him that players who chose it “should not cherry-pick out services. ” Ford added that Scott immediately criticized him, saying that Ford “speaks on both sides of my mouth”.
