KJ writes statement on behalf of the AAC players

[OnTheBus]

If there's a cluster of cases in one locker room, it's a pretty simple argument to make that it was passed around the team during football activities.

 

Edit: Ditto Bull Nut.

Edited August 11, 2020 by OnTheBus

[bowman1]

1 hour ago, TallyBull said:

good luck demonstrating you picked up your case of COVID-19 from football practice and not your trip to Publix to pick up a chicken tender sub. 

Or in the case of FSU, going to Publix to steal some crab legs . . . . . . . . allegedly 

[NewEnglandBull]

1 minute ago, bowman1 said:

Or in the case of FSU, going to Publix to steal some crab legs . . . . . . . . allegedly 

Well played sir...well played

[Rocky Style]

3 hours ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Which will not prevent the plaintiff from making a case and creating doubt. There is no way a university could provide a 100% save environment.

Fear of lawsuits is why I finally sold my condo and got out of an HOA this month.  Everything is perpetually closed just from the fear of lawsuit costs.  

[DELdaBull]

A specific COVID-19 waiver that the athletes would have to sign seems extra nefarious to me. 

[Friscobull]

43 minutes ago, DELdaBull said:

A specific COVID-19 waiver that the athletes would have to sign seems extra nefarious to me. 

To sign an acknowledgment that there is a risk of contracting a virus and they cannot sue the University should this happen is nefarious?  If the athlete is concerned about catching the virus then they can sit out without penalty?  It seems reckless for the school to proceed without this agreement.  

[Brad]

 

[BullsOnParadeTG]

18 hours ago, Bull Nut said:

If there are multiple positive cases/outbreak within the team, couldn't one conclude that at least one or more of the positive cases were contracted during a university athletics event, practice, game, etc.?

I am an accountant and not a lawyer but I would think they defense would attempt to prove a number of other places that they could have obtained it. Also those places would likely not have the same stringent measures put in place to prevent transmission. 

In the long run this virus is not going anywhere. What is the precident we are setting here? 

[Bull Nut]

23 minutes ago, Nick Carroll said:

I am an accountant and not a lawyer but I would think they defense would attempt to prove a number of other places that they could have obtained it. Also those places would likely not have the same stringent measures put in place to prevent transmission. 

In the long run this virus is not going anywhere. What is the precident we are setting here? 

I'm not an attorney either, however if a student athlete dies from covid there will most certainly be a lawsuit filled against the university. People have sued for spilling hot coffee in their laps and made millions. If it's the right attorney, then anything is possible.

[Bull Nut]

So the question is, are universities willing to take the risk of potentially having a covid related student athlete death this fall? We are starting to see some universities are and some are not...