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College football 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.520 world was shook over the weekend by reports of positive 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.080 coronavirus test throughout the nation. And you look at the 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.280 two teams that met in the national title game less 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:51.160 than six months ago. LSU had to quarantine thirty players. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.760 Clemson had over twenty players who tested positive. I don't 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.600 know if anybody was hospitalized, but that's been the story 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.360 all over as players reach turned to facilities, putting the 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.280 game of football side. Though. You hope everybody's okay in 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:09.720 a situation like this, and with the college sports debate 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:14.600 coming on the heels of the COVID nineteen impact, get 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.959 ready for the sports media to dip its toes into 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.079 medical waters that they're not used to and it's dangerous 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.600 to do it. College football has an extra layer of 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.239 intrigue though this year, players are finding voices in a 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.560 number of areas and hopefully that'll lead to a new 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.560 way in determining if they're going to feel safe. We 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.240 saw this with UCLA. Some of their players were uncertain 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.720 about Chip Kelly. I think they walk that back a 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.359 little bit. But we would love to see college football 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:45.959 go off without a hitch. But to do that, the 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:50.200 sport that doesn't always have strong leadership at the top 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.160 has to step up and be smart in the coming 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.519 weeks and months. And that's why we wanted to talk 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.880 to Greg Sanky of the SEC because this is going 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:03.280 to happen and you start wonder, is is this sort 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.400 of the strategy of Hey, these kids are going to 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.120 test positive and let's get it out of the way. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.040 And here we are in June. It sounds callous to 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.640 say it that way, but you have to wonder if 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.959 you're gonna have these players get to get it's football. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.880 If you're going to get together the number of you know, 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:26.360 student athletes are going to be getting together. And I've 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.400 tried to remain cautiously optimistic. I don't want to be 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.639 an alarmist. I'm just adding logic to this, reason to this. 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.800 It's going to happen, and it's going to happen all 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.440 over the country with players. Certain states that weren't hot 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.280 spots are now hot spots. And now where does that go? 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.280 You know? How big does this get? You know, I 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.240 think we look at college football and say, well, we 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.960 got time here, we don't. I mentioned this late last week. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:54.960 You know, the NFL looked like, oh, you've got a 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.240 lot of time here. You don't. You got football. You 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.800 got a first game in August, which I don't see 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.080 how it's played. I don't see how that Hall of 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.680 Fame game is played. Do not. But you're gonna players reporting, 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:08.960 and how are you going to be able to pull 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.760 this off? And I just don't see it happening. Even 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.040 the NBA. You know, I had these spikes the test 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.320 and you know the number of cases in Florida and 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.360 it may not sound like a lot, you know, four 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.800 thousand new but then it's four thousand of who did 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.080 they come in contact? Who did they come in contact? 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.400 And then you start to play connect the dots the 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:34.280 numbers games. Noah, everybody says full speed ahead the NBA, 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.039 we're optimistic. Well, I mean, I don't think Adam Silver 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:38.760 is going to come out and go, man, what are 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.440 we thinking? I'm saying that, what are we thinking? But 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:46.320 who am I? I said it before from the outset, 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.719 continue to say it. We have to be cautious with this. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.360 We want everything to come back, and it's not going 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.600 to come back to normal or the new normals. We 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.920 like to say, You're going to have more of these tests, 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.920 more of these spikes, more positive. Asked, but is this 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.440 the logic? Is this the game plan? Bring him back, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.800 let him test positive. They're young, they're healthy, and you 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.520 know they're going to be quarantine with everybody else here. 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.839 I don't know if that's the strategy, but it feels 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:21.880 that way. So we'll talk to the SEC commissioner about 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.000 what is going on. The other big story that was 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:29.000 late last night, but certainly it is exploding today has 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:33.120 to do with Bubba Wallace, NASCAR driver. NASCAR's race at 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:37.280 Talladega was canceled yesterday due to the rain, postponed and 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.680 it'll be run today at three o'clock this afternoon. So 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.920 postponed due to the rain, and a noose was found 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.520 in his garage where his car is, and he's the 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:55.359 only full time black driver in NASCAR's Cup Series, and 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.440 he had been wearing Black Lives Matter on his car 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.800 his paint. He were I can't breathe t shirts. You know, 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:07.000 he's been very outspoken and I think it's been really 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:12.840 illuminating that you've seen how NASCAR has changed overnight with 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.080 saying we don't want the Confederate flag here. But there's 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.080 always going to be outliers, you know, And when you 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:23.640 realize what racism is fueled by ignorance and fear, I mean, 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.960 that's what it comes down to. And I think that's 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.679 what you're seeing. And you know, Bubba Wallace had been 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.960 doing so many great things and encouraged to stand up 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.240 in that sport, and the news was meant to put 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.960 him in his place, plain and simple. He sent out 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:46.159 a tweet. This was late last night. Today's despicable act 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.839 of racism and hatred leaves me incredibly saddened and serves 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.400 as a painful reminder of how much farther we have 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.800 to go as a society and how persistent we must 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.960 be in the fight against racism. He's got to go 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:03.440 out and race today. I can't imagine what his night 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.960 must have been like. Now he's got to go out 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.480 and race, and you know, due to the COVID nineteen, 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.280 you know, the restrictions that we have, there's very few 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.440 people that would have access to his garage. I don't know, Talladega. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.960 I don't want to act like I know Talladega. PAULI 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.480 sent me some pictures of the garages and they're really 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.480 close to one another. And if somebody had a noose 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.760 and was hiding it and was able to throw it 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:33.679 on the floor, I don't even know where it was found, 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.880 but that doesn't matter as far as where it was found. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.880 Somebody did it do we have cameras to be able 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.480 to find out who this person is because this is 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:48.320 a hate crime. Somebody's going to go to jail for this. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:53.320 It's a hate crime, blat and simple, and NASCAR wants 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.120 you to be comfortable, and I know it's easy to go. Well, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.120 why did it take them so long? Man? Let's look 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:04.840 at progress here. You're right, I mean evolving, We're all evolving. 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.640 We're trying to evolve, we're trying to understand. Hell, I 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:12.360 didn't know what old Miss meant last week we're evolving, 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:17.280 we're asking, we're reading, we're curious, we need to be 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:24.000 that's all NASCAR. Yes, it took them forever, but they 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:30.520 did something old miss. That is what the slaves called 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.720 the wife of you know, the slave owner. The slave 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:39.280 owner's wife was old miss. I didn't know it. I 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.960 truly did not know it. U and LV running Rebels. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:50.679 I did not know that reb was for a Confederate general. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:57.640 Didn't know. But now you evolve, you listen, you learn, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:01.720 you understand. We're trying to understand. But I can't imagine 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.839 that this true hero, Bubba Wallace is a damn hero, 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.400 because that's not easy to do what he did. Now 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.199 you go to work today, he's there. Now, he's got 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.200 a race at three, he's walking in that garage, and 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.000 I don't know what he could be thinking, but I 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:26.959 hope the hell he wins. I don't root. I mean, 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.080 I've rooted for Dale Junior, I've rooted for Denny Hamlin, 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.520 I've rooted for certain guys in certain situations. Good God, 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.520 I hope America is rooting for Bubba Wallace today. But 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:42.160 that pressure what that must be like? He said, you're 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:46.320 not gonna break me and I'm not surprised he said that, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:51.000 because I wouldn't think it would break him. But wow, 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.760 you know, you just you got small minded people who 0:09:55.840 --> 0:10:01.319 do this, and it's out of fear and ignorance. But no, 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.720 and we're gonna we're gonna see if we can get 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.920 the right guest on. And you know, I'd love to 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.280 have somebody who could tell me just what those garages 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.720 are like at Talladega, because I've been to a couple 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:17.560 of events. But you know, you don't take pictures like that, 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.480 snapshots where you go, oh, oh, that's right, you know, 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.080 PAULI sent me pictures of Talladega. I mean, it's it's 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.840 like an airplane hanger with all of these different garages. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:30.000 You have your your separate little you know, spaces there. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.720 Your car is next. You basically police each other because 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.040 the drivers are right next to one another, your car 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.920 next to the other one. But people have access to that. 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:44.160 And even if we've limited this greatly, the access that 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.320 people have because of the pandemic, there's still some people 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:53.040 who could come in that the cleaning people crew, you know, NASCAR, 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.520 you know, I think is referring to this as an 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.839 inside job. I would think it would have to be 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.520 from the standpoint of how many people would have acts 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.120 to this and what kind of camera coverage would you 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.880 have because you have hundreds of thousands of dollars in 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:15.080 those garages, but the exterior cameras. I'm gonna guess it's 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.320 only a matter of time before we find out who 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.440 this is. But that person should go to jail, let's 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:26.360 say hate crime. Second Morning to the dans, Hey, Paulie Dan. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.320 I just put together a couple of different reports from 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:33.400 different NASCAR reporters. The garages at most NASCAR events, there's 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.360 about fifteen people per team, That's what some of the 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.520 reporters are saying. If you look, there's over forty teams, 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.200 so you're looking at five or six hundred team employees 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.680 just on the property that all have access. They don't 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.559 really hang out in each other's garages, but they could, 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.559 and they're open air. It's basically forty open air garages. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.679 Talladega specifically has a garage fan experience, but the reports 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.319 are that it was not open yesterday because of the 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.960 rain out. But usually they would have a controlled atmosphere 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.720 where fans can walk by behind a barrier and see 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.000 the garage that they said that was not going on yesterday, 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.960 but between track officials, people who are bringing water and 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.640 other services, they said there was upwards of eight hundred 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.280 people who had access to the garages during the day yesterday, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:17.160 and somebody could sneak a noose in, you know, if 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.400 somebody had a fire suit on. I mean, I don't 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.840 think that would be difficult to be able to get 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.280 it in there. The question is how many people are 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.800 there and do you have cameras there? And I'm sure 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.880 that they're drivers on both sides of Bubba Wallace's car. 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.600 Was anybody else there? Did anybody else see anything? But 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.800 he's got to go out and race today. I didn't 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.680 see the weather at Talladega, but he has to go 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.920 out and race the day and it might be delayed 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:50.560 again today. I don't know, but I can't imagine it. 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.840 Can't imagine that and all of the positivity that had 0:12:54.880 --> 0:13:00.120 happened with NASCAR with Bubba Wallace and then this. I 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.760 know it's one person and maybe well maybe it's not 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:08.400 one person, but it's one person who did this. I 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.360 don't know. It just it's a like a punch punch 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.520 in the stomach where you go come on, come on, 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.720 all right, So you know, Pauli and Fritzi are working 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.280 on getting the right guest here. I just want somebody 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.360 who can move this forward. I think you know we're 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:30.800 all bothered by this, but I you know, I want 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:32.760 to have somebody who can help us understand a little 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.280 bit more of just the proximity of everything, because we 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:41.320 all know it's wrong. And I'll be watching a NASCAR 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:45.000 race today. I wasn't planning on it, but I will 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:50.480 be today. If if they're able to a rough weekend 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:55.320 for college football, as I mentioned, with the athletes, baseball 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.960 no progress. It goes back to what I keep telling you, 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.480 this is all scripted here. The one thing baseball has 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.720 to be aware of. Even if you get the players 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.920 to cave in and play your fifty games and give 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.440 them the money and it's pro rated and it's whatever 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.640 it is, you divvy it up, you better get your 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.200 damn act together on the virus and being able to 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:23.400 come back and play. That hadn't even been talked about. Hey, 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.520 let's go down to spring training. They just got down 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:32.960 to Florida. Oh, I got some guys. You're testing positive here? Yeah, 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.840 it's nine fifteen on a Monday. I had a good weekend. 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:41.880 It can't be this upset this early. Let me take 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.160 a break. This program brought you by Legal Zoom. 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But best and worst 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.840 of the weekend. I'll let you guys tell me what 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:58.960 you liked you didn't like. Age seven seven three D 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.000 P show Email out STPA Dan Patrick dot com. He's 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.920 the commissioner of the SEC, Greg sank He's back with us, commissioner, 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.080 Thanks for joining us. How would you recap the weekend 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:14.040 in the SEC? Well, try not to add to your 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.480 frustration on the Monday morning. How about if I started there? 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.000 You know, really with the issues of the day, you 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:24.360 go back to statement I made Thursday night about being 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:30.520 pastime for change to the state flag in Mississippi. You saw, 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.800 just to cover all the bases reports about quarantining around 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.760 COVID nineteen on some of our campuses, not necessarily all 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.240 positive tests. I think we have to be intentional about 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.800 how we communicate Saturday. In fact, it wasn't until Sunday 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.600 I saw a group of football players from all miss 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.000 post a video take a stand on the need for 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.320 change on a monument that appears in the Square and Oxford. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.360 So I think that's real life in twenty twenty, isn't it. 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:01.080 That's exactly the type of issues for dealing with it. 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:05.240 It's unprecedented in some ways about a reality to change 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.879 as a constant in our life, whether we want to 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:12.240 acknowledge that change or not. Can Old Miss continue to 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:16.800 be Old Miss? Oh? Sure? I think that's that's up 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.760 to them. There's a lot going on right now in 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.159 those conversations. I think I look at it and my 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.120 responsibility as a conference commissioner because we have so much 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.240 that can go on. We have championships, we've go out 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.320 to dig, so we have others that rotate that I 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.560 needed to take that stand. And I know that their 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.080 chancellor and their campus leadership has worked hard on issues, 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.640 and when you have things in place for years, sometimes 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.119 it takes time to work through everything. Go back to 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:47.919 the banning of sticks is a way to deal with 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.280 the flag issue back in the nineties, and that was 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.280 the leadership needed then. And we've got a different type 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:58.240 of leadership expectation now. The number of positive chests over 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.840 the weekend, I don't And you explain the process. Do 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.440 coaches have to tell you what has happened on their 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.679 campus with their football teams. No, we don't rely on 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.480 our coaches for that information. We have a weekly call 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.879 with the Medical Advisory Committee, a group we've been working 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.280 with for several months now, and those are medical leaders 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.439 tied either to their athletics program or the university, so 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.040 we'll receive updates there, and again, I think that's where 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:29.760 it's important to understand. There's testing outcomes and then there 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:35.560 is essentially tracing outcomes where because of potential contacts, quarantining 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.240 takes place even though someone may not have tested positive 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.359 for COVID nineteen. What kind of options are you looking 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:46.960 at for the season. Yeah, I described this as a marathon, 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.200 and really I caught the end of your previous segment 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.960 on the return to activities that mayorment not happen in 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.360 Major League Baseball or in other sports. I know they're 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:59.320 all preparing for that. We're living that reality. We're dealing 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:03.159 literally with voluntary athletic related activities, and we know that 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.760 within our facilities we can provide the kind of care 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:10.399 and oversight that guides people in the right way keeps 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.639 them healthy. We're also learning that nineteen and twenty year 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.199 olds will do what nineteen and twenty year olds do, 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.359 and that is maybe not listen to all the advice 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:22.960 that exists. I think their immunity level or their strength 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:28.560 and conditioning can prevent them from being having a positive 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.440 test or contracting the virus. And I think that's a 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.359 lesson that everyone still has to learn. That the discussions 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.760 about masks and how we maintain our health, these are 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:41.840 real issues that help us move forward. We're still months 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:45.359 away from what could be the potential kickoff. That's our focus. 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.199 But as I've said repeatedly, we have to prepare to 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.400 adjust to the circumstances, just like we're adjusting right now 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:55.520 after the last four or five days. What will those adjustments? 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:57.639 What are the possibility And maybe you don't want to 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:02.000 get into hypotheticals, to be fair to you, but everybody's 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:07.320 optimistic about this Commissioner, But man, I just I don't know. 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.720 I have serious doubts about how we're going to pull 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:13.400 all any of this off. I really am, And nobody, 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.160 like nobody on my side of the microphone and you're 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:20.600 asked questions, has been overly optimistic and I'm certainly realistic. 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.240 It is it is a marathon, and I don't know 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.520 where the finish line is. And in my life, I 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.920 finished forty one marathons and at least I knew, with 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.040 the exception of one where they miss measured, that the 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.199 finish line was twenty six point two miles. You can 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.480 imagine my frustration. I knew it felt longer than it was. 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.320 And here we know there's a finish line, but where 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.080 is it? And so Dan, I have to look at 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:43.800 this as each step. And a couple of weeks ago 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:48.200 we opened up our athletic facilities again voluntary activities. What 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.359 you're seeing now in the news is a reaction to 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:56.440 the plans that were put in place. Today's another milestone. 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:00.280 The NCA made a decision to allow an l vated 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.879 level of practice. Alcoholic comes LI thirteenth. I think that's 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:06.800 the next stage, and right around that time we'll have 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.040 to come to some conclusions on whether we can move 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:15.200 forward as planned or not. Was this planned or this 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:20.160 was expected that you would have these kids test positive? Well, 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:23.399 it was prepared for. The goal was never to expect zero. 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.119 That's just not reality around us. It is to be 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:30.560 the plan was test. When they arrived, we had positive 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.240 tests when people came back, and we have embedded medical 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:35.919 professionals in our athletics program. That's part of what I 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:39.080 think gets missed is the level of care provided for 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:42.320 young people on our campuses on a daily basis. And 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:45.080 then there was preparation for the what ifs, And so 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:49.480 those hypotheticals that I have avoided answering are very much 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:52.840 a part of planning. What do we do if a 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:55.680 bunch of people go to a party or someone test positive, 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:57.960 We're going to be in quarantine. What do we do 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:00.560 if there's a positive test, What do we do when 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:02.679 they come back? How many people can be allowed in 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:05.520 a facility? What is the spacing, What is the expectation 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:08.480 when you walk in and leave? What is the continuing 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:12.720 reinforcement about the education? Provided that, well, you made it 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:15.680 through one week doesn't make you make doesn't mean you'll 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.440 make it through two unless you take care of yourselves. 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.200 And there are no guarantees. You can go back to 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:23.880 March where we all thought we were playing basketball tournaments 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.439 and March madness would happen, and we made assumptions, and 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:29.520 we have fewer assumptions made, and that's why we have 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:33.600 to prepare for a whole set of contingencies. We talked 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:36.600 about it last time, and if you can give me 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:40.040 an update with the SEC, maybe just have conference games, 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:43.480 like the is the game plan to have just conference 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:46.680 games or is it a full slate we've gone through. 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:52.680 I think we're just short of twenty scenarios. The plan. 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.959 The focus is to prepare to play as schedule and 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:59.120 then to pivot off of that. And there are any 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:03.359 number of options that could allow an entire schedule to 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:05.959 be played both conference and non conference, but everybody in 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:07.480 this country has to be a part of that at 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:10.800 the cleasion level. That's just a little bit more complex 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:14.119 than say the NFL putting its schedule out of their delaying, 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:17.119 because all of those things are controlled by a central entity. 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:19.760 So I think we'll keep that focus, but we'll plan 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:22.920