Atlantic Florida will have to wait another week to play its first game of the season, and Saturday’s game opposite that of the University of South Florida will be postponed.
The game was “postponed through a joint agreement of schools due to disorders related to the new coronavirus,” FAU said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon.
The postponement that the first 4 FAU games have been cancelled or postponed: in Minnesota, as opposed to Stony Brook, Georgia Southern and in opposition to the USF.
The Bulls suspended practice Wednesday morning after learning about the positive effects at Notre Dame, a team they faced last Saturday. South Florida (1-1), which lost 52-0, defeated players the day before Notre Dame’s game and then Monday morning. . There were no positive effects, the school said.
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“As a precaution and focusing on the physical condition and protection of our students-athletes and staff, it is prudent to suspend boxing activities until we have the effects of more tests,” the team said in a statement Wednesday.
In that statement, the USF also announced that members of its program were undergoing a test run wednesday morning, effects that were not shared.
Earlier Wednesday, FAU head coach Willie Taggart said he hoped to play with his former team this weekend and said all of his players had tested negative since Sunday.
“Think positive, mark negative,” he said. Tested [Wednesday morning and] all negative. Quarantine kids still can’t play. “
Approximately 11 team members tested positive last Thursday, delaying their game against Georgia Southern. After his last test run, Taggart said those players no longer tested positive, but that they would not have opposed the Bulls because of the search for contacts. Instead, between 15 and 20 players have been quarantined.
These players will have the opportunity to play on October 3 in Charlotte.
The Bulls’ opening date between now and December is the last weekend of October, however, the Owls have a convention game opposed to Texas-San Antonio scheduled for October 31 and will reportedly face Georgia Southern on December 5. the same date as the US Conference championship game. But it’s not the first time