So will there be an opportunity for OHSFCA + OHSAA to directly pitch their recommendations to the ODH (and the Governor?) Or are they just hoping Husted can sell it to them?
Re: 3 - what even is the baseline for the state and ODH to assess guideline adherence and players’ actions as they pertain to the COVID concerns? There’s no scrimmages to trial run these guidelines on. How does Husted or the ODH know if they’ll work, where the suspected reliability in the guidelines would eliminate the need for the testing requirement?
Re: 4 - I don’t disagree with Husted on this, but again this is open to interpretation. If there’s some issue with increased COVID spread, as in counties experience outbreaks or there is an outbreak linked to football programs (plural), then what does that mean for football in Ohio? This is where it’s becoming opaque at a time when transparency is most beneficial to everyone. Is the ODH/state just not going to let Level 3 and Level 4 counties play football? Like, if so, fine... set the ground rules on it so the students actually have a carrot on the stick. Ambiguous “the students’ actions decide the course of the season” rhetoric has no accountability.