It remains to be seen if Notre Dame football takes off from here, however Brian Kelly’s team, despite everything, turns out to be on the other side of a COVID-19 concern that threatened to derail the season.
Ranked fourth in the country and in a position to receive Louisville without qualifying on Saturday afternoon, Kelly’s Fighting Irish had a week of education without a single player in quarantine or isolation. The last time Kelly was able to say that almost six weeks ago, on September 8. .
“He seemed as general as we did,” Kelly told reporters on Thursday. “Even more than Duke’s Week, it seemed like a week of paintings in general, you’d have a season without COVID. “
The best kick returner, Lawrence Keys III, still recovers from a concussion, and Liam Eichenberg’s left shot still fought a huge fish after taking a hit in the left eye, but the Kelly team about to send the expected Cardinals hitting almost the same team he expects to have at his disposal when Clemson , the best ranked, travel in 3 weeks.
Kelly may feel that the team’s anxiety decreases.
“Our guys felt a lot more comfortable,” he said. “There were several tests that were negative. That is not the point of the conversation. “
Florida State broke Clark Lea’s defense for 26 issues and a handful of long victories, but Kelly is willing to deduce some of the COVID-19’s mixture of rust and logistical repercussions.
“Some points were unique,” Kelly said. ” A lot of those guys didn’t exercise during the week, and they might see it. “
While the 16-point victory over the Seminoles was necessarily a season-opening Redux for Kelly’s group, he sees this Louisville game as a time in Week 2. The first won 52-0 over South Florida, but a few days later the virus launched the Irish for a big loss.
The to Wake Forest was postponed first and then postponed until the end of the season’s normal schedule in December. Practices were cancelled, meetings repeated remotely, and the concentrate once the team’s collective health was restored.
When they returned after three weeks of playing, the Irish had to thank team coach Rob Hunt and Dr. Matt Leiszler’s team. In the right way, Kelly gave them gaming balls after FSU’s victory.
Although positive tests have begun to escalate among the overall population of campus, Kelly and his team remain optimistic, the worst thing is the Irish football program.
“You feel complete; you’ve put your team together,” he said. ” They know that what we’re putting in position is effective. We moved on to a new testing procedure over the weekend and everything was clean again. This creates a lot” of momentum within the group. “
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