FB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[ADL70]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Stadium Owned by Dayton Public Schools

[wally_wabash]

Kenyon is the second NCAC school to opt out of athletics for the fall semester. 

The full list can be found here: https://www.d3sports.com/notables/2020/06/schools-call-it-off-for-fall

[WAF-WDE]

Thought you might be interested in one way that an SEC school is attempting to make it safe to hold on-site classes this fall:

http://ocm.auburn.edu/newsroom/news_articles/2020/07/161653-covid19-screening-tests.php

[Whitecarrera]

Kenyon is the second NCAC school to opt out of athletics for the fall semester. 

The full list can be found here: https://www.d3sports.com/notables/2020/06/schools-call-it-off-for-fall

... and for the first time since 1950, neither Kenyon nor Oberlin will have a losing season! (too soon?)

[formerd3db]

Kenyon is the second NCAC school to opt out of athletics for the fall semester. 

The full list can be found here: https://www.d3sports.com/notables/2020/06/schools-call-it-off-for-fall

... and for the first time since 1950, neither Kenyon nor Oberlin will have a losing season! (too soon?)

Actually, Kenyon had winning seasons in football in 2012 and 2005 according to the record book here on D3football.com.🙂

[Whitecarrera]

No disagreement here, but I think 1950 was the last time they each had winning seasons in the same year.

[formerd3db]

Got it. After I posted the above and without looking back that far  further to do a head-to-head check, I figured that was what you meant.

[wally_wabash]

The NCAC has suspended athletics through the end of the calendar year. 

[WAF-WDE]

Wabash is also suspending fall sports that are not sanctioned by the NCAC (wrestling and volleyball) as well as fall participation in sports that have non-traditional fall seasons (golf and tennis).  I am saddened, but not surprised, particularly given the lengths to which professional sports leagues are going to keep their teams (including coaches and support staff) healthy.

https://www.wabash.edu/news/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=11608

[GrizFan]

Thought you might be interested in one way that an SEC school is attempting to make it safe to hold on-site classes this fall:

http://ocm.auburn.edu/newsroom/news_articles/2020/07/161653-covid19-screening-tests.php

Similar program in place at the University of Alabama.  Alabama requires a negative COVID test result within 14 days prior to reporting to campus.  Alabama is unique among public universities in that almost 70% of undergrads are from out of state (Auburn is 70% in-state).  UA will be relying heavily on home testing kits which will be sent to all students and returned via mail to Alabama for analysis.

[formerd3db]

Thought you might be interested in one way that an SEC school is attempting to make it safe to hold on-site classes this fall:

http://ocm.auburn.edu/newsroom/news_articles/2020/07/161653-covid19-screening-tests.php

Similar program in place at the University of Alabama.  Alabama requires a negative COVID test result within 14 days prior to reporting to campus.  Alabama is unique among public universities in that almost 70% of undergrads are from out of state (Auburn is 70% in-state).  UA will be relying heavily on home testing kits which will be sent to all students and returned via mail to Alabama for analysis.

The problem with that model is that someone could be positive within that time frame before they report to campus. Some schools are going to require the negative test to be within less than the two week time period and then the players will be tested again sometime after their arrival. As I've said before, at $100 per test, this will be expensive. I'll bet that there will be positive tests even after players report/arrive to camp.☹️

[Bishopleftiesdad]

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/ohio-wesleyan-ncac-suspend-fall-sports/#:~:text=COLUMBUS%2C%20Ohio%20(WCMH)%20%E2%80%94,%2C%20Denison%2C%20Kenyon%20and%20Wittenberg.

[HScoach]

The NCAC has suspended athletics through the end of the calendar year.

The OAC has joined suit.  https://www.oac.org/MISC/COVID-19_2020/Fall_Postponed

[WAF-WDE]

Thought you might be interested in one way that an SEC school is attempting to make it safe to hold on-site classes this fall:

http://ocm.auburn.edu/newsroom/news_articles/2020/07/161653-covid19-screening-tests.php

Similar program in place at the University of Alabama.  Alabama requires a negative COVID test result within 14 days prior to reporting to campus.  Alabama is unique among public universities in that almost 70% of undergrads are from out of state (Auburn is 70% in-state).  UA will be relying heavily on home testing kits which will be sent to all students and returned via mail to Alabama for analysis.

The problem with that model is that someone could be positive within that time frame before they report to campus. Some schools are going to require the negative test to be within less than the two week time period and then the players will be tested again sometime after their arrival. As I've said before, at $100 per test, this will be expensive. I'll bet that there will be positive tests even after players report/arrive to camp.☹️

Yeah, the two-week gap is problematic from a disease control perspective.  Auburn is anticipating that a small number of students and student-athletes could be infected with COVID-19 after they return to campus - this is why Auburn is implementing random testing of asymptomatic/presymptomatic individuals - Auburn needs to identify problems in its disease-mitigation plans as quickly as possible.  Hopefully, only a very small percentage of individuals will test positive and Auburn can address the causative issues as quickly as possible.

Cost might not be as high as you might think.  Auburn's testing program is being subsidized by the CARES legislation.  Moreover, an institution could perform testing itself under the FDA's Emergency Use Authorization as long as it used an FDA-approved test.  One of my former graduate students helped develop the first commercially-available COVID-19 test in Alabama (Assurance Scientific Laboratories) and you can buy those test kits from that company.  I am sure that there are other companies that sell FDA-approved kits.  Specialized equipment is required to perform these tests at scale, but the equipment can be found at most R1 academic research institutions.  Indeed, the equipment to which I have access at Auburn could probably process 5-10K tests per day.  However, I believe that the testing at Auburn and Alabama is being handled by the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine.

[Shamrock]

Not much of a surprise at this point, the NCAA has cancelled all Div-III fall championships.

https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/division-iii-presidents-council-cancels-fall-championships