[teejers1]

I don't think one infection would cause the team to shutdown.   It would just cause the team to lose every game for a few weeks.

Why?  As best I can tell the NCAA rules with pods and 14 day quarantine rules sounds very similar to the CIF rules.   The CIF rules included the idea that players would practice in pods.   If a player tested positive in a pod, then all of the players in that pod would need to quarantine for 14 days.   The challenge would then be to form pods that prevent all players of a specific roster spot to be stuck in quarantine.   However, a pod with different positions and levels on the depth chart would create a practice group quite different from pre-COVID practices.

The CIF rules looked impractical even before the July resurgence of COVID.   So odds were good CIF would postpone all fall sports into a 10 week period between January-February and perhaps early March even before the largest school districts opted to go virtual and then Gov Newsom's virtual school declaration for most of the populated counties.   Their next meeting in Monday July 20th.   My children laugh at me when I tell them they should keep training just in case.   Admittedly my appeals are not particularly credible.

I'd bet big money the Jan-Mar plan will get cancelled in December, but that's for a different time.

The NCAA seems to be on a similar track.   Very tough pod and quarantine rules, a bunch of schools going on-line only, and athletic conferences embracing reality.  

Pro sports are much easier because you can force the people into hotel bubbles and command them not to interact with people outside of the team.    That is not possible for student-athletes for so many reasons.  

Looks like most of the pro-sport bubbles in the USA with everyone in the same venue have gone OK.   MLS had a few teams drop out.   I am not convinced the USA sports that are trying to add in travel will have the same luck, but even that is easier than trying to move a group of college students to different venues.

And before thinking about the logistics of moving a football team around in charter flights with several trainers and coaches, think about trying to move a soccer team around the USA with a couple of coaches on commercial flights.

After imagining that soccer scenario you likely will realize what the NCAA will announce in a few more days.

Maybe you're right on result of tests and reaction to same; however, I find it incredibly ironic that the CIF (or any college sports endeavor) would put a more stringent standard than is being put on people writ large, particularly given what we know about the impact of the virus on young, healthy people.  In other words, if one person tests positive, society doesn't quarantine him and everyone he has been in contact with for 14 days.  Hell, as Goose has been lamenting forever, we as a society can't even get a handle on any kind of contact tracing.  And this (presumably) is with older folks and those more susceptible to the virus.

Just another example of virus responses not being attuned to the risk presented.  At leas from here.

P.S.  Gavin Newsom will never get my vote, based on his one-size-fits-all school order.  Of course, I've hated the slimeball ever since he eked out a victory over my law school classmate for the SF Mayoral spot in what would have been one of the greatest grassroots political upsets ever.  Had Willie Brown flummoxed, which was worth the price of admission.  BTW, Chappelle had a fly-by on Newsom back in the day regarding his "loyalty" to his campaign manager . . . or more accurately, his wife.

[teejers1]

I don't think one infection would cause the team to shutdown.   It would just cause the team to lose every game for a few weeks.

Why?  As best I can tell the NCAA rules with pods and 14 day quarantine rules sounds very similar to the CIF rules.   The CIF rules included the idea that players would practice in pods.   If a player tested positive in a pod, then all of the players in that pod would need to quarantine for 14 days.   The challenge would then be to form pods that prevent all players of a specific roster spot to be stuck in quarantine.   However, a pod with different positions and levels on the depth chart would create a practice group quite different from pre-COVID practices.

The CIF rules looked impractical even before the July resurgence of COVID.   So odds were good CIF would postpone all fall sports into a 10 week period between January-February and perhaps early March even before the largest school districts opted to go virtual and then Gov Newsom's virtual school declaration for most of the populated counties.   Their next meeting in Monday July 20th.   My children laugh at me when I tell them they should keep training just in case.   Admittedly my appeals are not particularly credible.

I'd bet big money the Jan-Mar plan will get cancelled in December, but that's for a different time.

The NCAA seems to be on a similar track.   Very tough pod and quarantine rules, a bunch of schools going on-line only, and athletic conferences embracing reality.  

Pro sports are much easier because you can force the people into hotel bubbles and command them not to interact with people outside of the team.    That is not possible for student-athletes for so many reasons.  

Looks like most of the pro-sport bubbles in the USA with everyone in the same venue have gone OK.   MLS had a few teams drop out.   I am not convinced the USA sports that are trying to add in travel will have the same luck, but even that is easier than trying to move a group of college students to different venues.

And before thinking about the logistics of moving a football team around in charter flights with several trainers and coaches, think about trying to move a soccer team around the USA with a couple of coaches on commercial flights.

After imagining that soccer scenario you likely will realize what the NCAA will announce in a few more days.

Maybe you're right on result of tests and reaction to same; however, I find it incredibly ironic that the CIF (or any college sports endeavor) would put a more stringent standard than is being put on people writ large, particularly given what we know about the impact of the virus on young, healthy people.  In other words, if one person tests positive, society doesn't quarantine him and everyone he has been in contact with for 14 days.  Hell, as Goose has been lamenting forever, we as a society can't even get a handle on any kind of contact tracing.  And this (presumably) is with older folks and those more susceptible to the virus.

Just another example of virus responses not being attuned to the risk presented.  At leas from here.

P.S.  Gavin Newsom will never get my vote, based on his one-size-fits-all school order.  Of course, I've hated the slimeball ever since he eked out a victory over my law school classmate for the SF Mayoral spot in what would have been one of the greatest grassroots political upsets ever.  Had Willie Brown flummoxed, which was worth the price of admission.  BTW, Chappelle had a fly-by on Newsom back in the day regarding his "loyalty" to his campaign manager . . . or more accurately, his wife.