Brian Kelly joined Scott Van Pelt on SportsCenter on Monday night and spoke about the upcoming football season. There were several topics covered in a very short amount of time but Kelly broke some news in terms of Notre Dame’s plans to test their student-athletes for COVID-19.
“There’s going to be testing weekly throughout the season,” Kelly said, “cleared and tested prior to competition and part of the challenge will be the players making good decisions during the week because the last thing we want is to get on the bus to go play Clemson and to find out the starting quarterback is out because he tested positive”
Some reports have teams relying more on simply taking players temperatures more often instead of testing their athletes each week, but Notre Dame appears to have a plan in place to make sure nobody taking the field on Saturday’s will be playing with COVID-19.
There’s a long way to go before any guarantees for games to be played but it’s tough to have a better or more definitive plan than Notre Dame will have testing all players each week.