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Notre Dame in final three for star Ohio offensive lineman

The Irish are still in it

It has been no secret that the Midwest’s best state for high school talent is Ohio. It is a state has has a large amount of players, some of which can play anywhere in the country. Lakota East 2023 offensive lineman Austin Siereveld is one of those players.

Earlier this evening the massive six-foot-five-inch and 320-pound offensive mauler released his top-3 school, Ohio State, Alabama and Notre Dame. Just a few months ago Siereveld dropped a top-6, with Iowa, Cincinnati and Michigan not making the final cut. His final three schools are clearly some of the best football teams in the nation.

It remains to be seen what Siereveld’s next move is, if he’s going to take official visits or when he will commit. What we do know is that the Irish are still in the mix for the lineman’s services.

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Five Alabama football players test positive for Coronavirus

Scary news out of Alabama as five football players have tested positive for COVID-19. What does it mean for college football in 2020?

Will there be college football in 2020 or won’t there be?

Recently it has felt as if we’re headed to a world that will see the game played, even if it’s only played in a small percentage of fans in the stands.  Re-arranging schedules and more details of plans for attending fans speak exactly to that.

The grand question in this all along though has been “what happens when a handful of players on a team get infected?”

Players at various schools who have contracted the virus have recently come to a light a bit, but Thursday brought news that five players at Alabama has tested positive for Coronavirus.

The NCAA voted to open campus facilities for football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball players on June 1 and the SEC presidents and chancellors gave the green light to allow voluntary in-person athletic activities to begin on their campuses again on June 8.

What happens from here will be compelling in regards to the college football outlook this fall.

Say for example that a significant amount more of those 50 players who were working out together test positive for virus.  Does that force the NCAA to then shut down such workouts from taking place?

With the NBA set to restart on July 31, the NHL recently announcing part of a plan to resume play and MLB being set to go aside from a labor disagreement, it’d appear we’re headed back to seeing live sports shortly.

But how will things be handled when an outbreak occurs, because if nothing else this happening at Alabama should open some eyes to the idea that an outbreak on a team is impossible to fully prevent.