ACC teams unable to play must forfeit!

ScionOfSouthland said:
Not sure but seems with rates of vaccination infection we don’t really need to worry
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Really? Pfizer just 39% effective against delta if all you care about is infection.

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Pfizer Shot Just 39% Effective Against Delta Infection, But Largely Prevents Severe Illness, Israel Study Suggests

Previous estimates indicated the Pfizer shot was only moderately less protective against Delta, though all studies indicate a high level of protection against hospitalization and severe illness.
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Some team will "forfeit" a game against a tuff opponent, and it will save their ranking. Can see UNC ducking a big game and not getting dinged.
 
So how many people does a team have to be down before they don't have enough players. Is it up to the coach to decide or is it a hard and fast number? For example, let's say Clemson is down a ton of guys late in the year, fighting to make the playoff. Can Dabo decide that having 30 guys suit up is "enough" for that week? Kind of extreme I know, but you get the point.
 
BigDanT said:
Maybe. Hopefully you’re right. I just wonder why we suffer needless mandates.
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Because the Delta variant doesn't seem to care about our feelings. The team can be 100% vaccinated and someone can still pass the virus to them. All it takes is one positive test to render a whole lot of players "unavailable" because of quarantine protocols. If the people around the players are mandated to wear masks, it considerably lessens the chance that players, coaches, athletic trainers, non-coaching personnel, or officials will be infected.

There are a lot of moving parts to be able to play a game. Why not give our team the optimal chance of at least being able to field a team and play?
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
Vaccinations, yes, barring REAL reasons not to. Masks? HELL NO !!!
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Then accept the very real risk that we will probably be forfeiting some games due to not having enough available players. This delta variant seems to be a lot smarter than alpha, beta, or gamma. If there is ONE breakthrough infection, we lose a whole lot of guys.
 
odw said:
So how many people does a team have to be down before they don't have enough players. Is it up to the coach to decide or is it a hard and fast number? For example, let's say Clemson is down a ton of guys late in the year, fighting to make the playoff. Can Dabo decide that having 30 guys suit up is "enough" for that week? Kind of extreme I know, but you get the point.
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I know some of the other P5 conferences gave minimums last year. I don't think the ACC did. They used some language like "an adequate number".
 
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