Covid-Restrictions/Adjustments

[mizzourahfan]

10 days till we open up the gyms for practice!! I am curious if anyone has any adjustments and/or restrictions they are doing for the season this year to limit contact tracing. I am sure each school is slightly different with their approach.

In the classroom, do athletes get preferred seating (6 feet away from other students) so they don't get contact traced?

In games, how do you make sure your bench doesn't have athletes, coaches & managers within 6 feet of each other for 15 minutes? (we are using a couple rows of the bleachers behind the bench for our team personnel)

Do you plan on keeping more or less kids on your teams because of possibly losing multiple kids at a time due to quarantine or do you plan to patch rosters together so kids maximize quarters?

 

[hangmanbobbyjaggers]

10 days till we open up the gyms for practice!! I am curious if anyone has any adjustments and/or restrictions they are doing for the season this year to limit contact tracing. I am sure each school is slightly different with their approach.

In the classroom, do athletes get preferred seating (6 feet away from other students) so they don't get contact traced?

In games, how do you make sure your bench doesn't have athletes, coaches & managers within 6 feet of each other for 15 minutes? (we are using a couple rows of the bleachers behind the bench for our team personnel)

Do you plan on keeping more or less kids on your teams because of possibly losing multiple kids at a time due to quarantine or do you plan to patch rosters together so kids maximize quarters?

Nearly impossible to keep kids away from contact tracing now that it is 15 minutes in 24 hours within 6 feet of someone.

 

[mizzourahfan]

Nearly impossible to keep kids away from contact tracing now that it is 15 minutes in 24 hours within 6 feet of someone.

I think the biggest areas of concern for contact tracing during basketball is bench, locker room and bus. Practice should be much easier to control and in-game should be easy to miss the threshold of of 6 feet and 15 minutes. If we hit that in practice or playing, then we are horrible with spacing on offense and we are terrible defensively with being between man and ball.

 

[TJ_DUB]

We’ll be setting up our chairs in a W shape. Bleachers only on one side and plenty of room behind the benches.

 

[3Rfan]

I think the biggest areas of concern for contact tracing during basketball is bench, locker room and bus. Practice should be much easier to control and in-game should be easy to miss the threshold of of 6 feet and 15 minutes. If we hit that in practice or playing, then we are horrible with spacing on offense and we are terrible defensively with being between man and ball.

You can guard people from more than 6 feet and get the job done? I'll bet the 3 point shooters will love that.

 

[mizzourahfan]

You can guard people from more than 6 feet and get the job done? I'll bet the 3 point shooters will love that.

I think you missed the 15 minute part of that...

 

[Eagles_Ball]

I think you missed the 15 minute part of that...

15 cumulative minutes.

 

[Trim78]

Half of the coaching staffs and players out there, will not change anything in their practices. We will just have to see how bad this gets.

 

[wahoolives]

Unless you video every practice and go back and sift through the video, I don't know how you would contact trace and not have to quarantine most of your kids that were in practice with a kid that tests positive if schools and county health departments actually follow the guidelines.

 

[Eagles_Ball]

Unless you video every practice and go back and sift through the video, I don't know how you would contact trace and not have to quarantine most of your kids that were in practice with a kid that tests positive if schools and county health departments actually follow the guidelines.

It's all extremely arbitrary. Think about this. AP walks in, checks out the seating chart, starts measuring seat distances. 6' apart? Good. 5'10" apart? Nah, sorry. I've heard of one district that is setting a timer at 14:59 seconds and playing musical seating charts. It is what it is...but we're all just pretending at this point.

 

[341A]

Don't forget that it isn't just 6ft for 15 minutes. Physical contact will make them a close contact in much less time. Boxing out, posting up, basketball in general will make anyone that plays against each other close contacts. We had kids get it at volleyball practice that only had 6 girls at it that weren't even close to the 15 minutes. However they all shared the equipment.

 

[Eagles_Ball]

Don't forget that it isn't just 6ft for 15 minutes. Physical contact will make them a close contact in much less time. Boxing out, posting up, basketball in general will make anyone that plays against each other close contacts. We had kids get it at volleyball practice that only had 6 girls at it that weren't even close to the 15 minutes. However they all shared the equipment.

Oh, I get all of that. See the arbitrary and pretending part of the comment.

 

[TJ_DUB]

I’ll also be disinfected balls before practice, but I get the box-out, post up, double teaming, etc. I’m going to instruct them not to inhale or exhale while in those situations. Wish me luck, lol.

 

[Eagles_Ball]

I’ll also be disinfected balls before practice...

Ewwwwwww

 

[quadzilla200]

Absolutely ludicrous. My wife got thrown into quarantine since she is the assistant volleyball coach and a player who sits by her on the bench got it. Both always have masks on around each other. My wife doesn't have it. You can also blame the schools here since they didn't have the benches set up like the NBA did. So even if my wife goes and gets a test today she is stuck in quarantine, even with a negative result?

 

[Trim78]

That's life in 2020 Covid!

 

[mizzourahfan]

Absolutely ludicrous. My wife got thrown into quarantine since she is the assistant volleyball coach and a player who sits by her on the bench got it. Both always have masks on around each other. My wife doesn't have it. You can also blame the schools here since they didn't have the benches set up like the NBA did. So even if my wife goes and gets a test today she is stuck in quarantine, even with a negative result?

Yes. We have healthy kids missing 2 weeks of the season because they were sitting next to someone in class 5 feet away with a mask on. We have teams playing fall districts with JV-filler squads and seniors sitting out their last games because of the same reason. It will be a wild season and I would imagine boxscores, conference and district standings will reflect that.

 

[TJ_DUB]

Ewwwwwww

Stings a little, lol.

 

[Eagles_Ball]

Absolutely ludicrous. My wife got thrown into quarantine since she is the assistant volleyball coach and a player who sits by her on the bench got it. Both always have masks on around each other. My wife doesn't have it. You can also blame the schools here since they didn't have the benches set up like the NBA did. So even if my wife goes and gets a test today she is stuck in quarantine, even with a negative result?

Quarantine requirements are what happens when 10 people each get to make one rule on a topic, but don't attempt to make the rules work together.

 

[Missouri Kid]

I’ll also be disinfected balls before practice..,

Oh, the humanity!!!!

 

[quadzilla200]

At least coaches will consistently get a chuckle anytime they say "disinfect the balls". My daughter was trying out for a volleyball team and the guy is leading the tryout with, "let me disinfect the balls". Even as a 40 year old I find it funny. Some things never change.

 

[quadzilla200]

Rockhurst football done because of one positive case. I don't see how MSHSAA can have postseasons in anything. Not sure if that ends Blue Springs season as well since they played them on Friday. Absolutely nuts.
Bring in the freshman or sophomore teams in basketball. It would be best this year to keep the youngins in separate practices if at all possible with space. Cancelled games sucks for all parties involved.

 

[hangmanbobbyjaggers]

I do not get the 1 case and stop all. Last night in the world series they said a player tested positive in middle of the game. It went on and he is back on the field celebrating with the teammates.

 

[Eagles_Ball]

I do not get the 1 case and stop all. Last night in the world series they said a player tested positive in middle of the game. It went on and he is back on the field celebrating with the teammates.

1--Modern miracle of medicine
2--Dodgers and MLB don't care about the livelihood of the human race
3--Just a dude living life

 

[hangmanbobbyjaggers]

1--Modern miracle of medicine
2--Dodgers and MLB don't care about the livelihood of the human race
3--Just a dude living life

Orrrrrr.... what if it is a false positive as was the case with Coach Saban?

 

[Eagles_Ball]

Orrrrrr.... what if it is a false positive as was the case with Coach Saban?

True story...I feel like the unknown has scared the bejeezus out of a good portion of people. I know it did me until about late May.

 

[3Rfan]

I do not get the 1 case and stop all. Last night in the world series they said a player tested positive in middle of the game. It went on and he is back on the field celebrating with the teammates.

That one case could turn into 20 if he really has it. You don't have to stop all if he gets away from them but the more he's around them the better the chances are it spreads. I assume the test was done earlier and they just got the results. I seriously doubt they were testing during the game.