<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Get The Picture]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://blutarsky.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Senator Blutarsky]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://blutarsky.wordpress.com/author/blutarsky/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Just win, baby.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>In one of my snarkier moments, I thought about posting a reader poll asking folks to speculate on how many kids dying from the coronavirus they could tolerate if they got a full 2020 college football season in exchange, but decided against, mainly because I didn&#8217;t think I could stomach seeing the results.</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;m afraid you&#8217;ll have to settle for <a href="https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2020/05/what-happens-when-a-college-football-player-tests-positive-for-coronavirus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this</a>.</p>
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<p id="7GXV4RPE6VDQDJWY76J2I53MAA" class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left">Saag, a professor of medicine and the director of UAB’s Center for AIDs Research, wondered what happens if the No. 1 team in the country gets told it can’t play for two weeks after a player or collection of players tests positive. Do you adjust the schedule? Does that team have to forfeit those games and thus miss out on its chance at a national championship?</p>
<p id="Z5QQRNPOUREKNA5RN34TTH5CFA" class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left">Those scenarios have been bandied about throughout the college athletics world. They’ve also prompted concerns about the lengths some could take to keep football going even in the face of a pandemic. One Power 5 administrator openly speculated that teams might not be upfront about positive tests if it meant an automatic shutdown. “You better hope no school is covering things up,” the administrator told <a href="http://al.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AL.com</a> but they couldn’t help but be skeptical that a win-at-all-costs program would really shut it all down for a third-string punter.</p>
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<p>Shit, <em>of course</em> that&#8217;s gonna happen.  My question to you is, which coach goes there first?</p>
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