Alabama releases statement following reports that multiple Crimson Tide players have tested positive for coronavirus
If you missed the latest out of Tuscaloosa, multiple Alabama players have reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus upon their return to campus.
News of the positive tests has been reported by multiple outlets but was first shared by BamaInsider.
Here’s the information the Alabama Rivals outlet shared on Thursday:
Sources told BamaInsider on Thursday that as many as five Alabama players have tested positive for COVID-19 as the team reported back to campus this week. BamaInsider reached out to a university official for confirmation who was unable to confirm at this time, stating player privacy regulations.
Following this news, Alabama has released a statement, but unfortunately, the school didn’t really clear up much with this statement:
“The health and safety of our student-athletes is a top priority. Resources and protocols are in place to ensure they receive the best medical care when returning to campus. Due to privacy laws we cannot share information specific to the health of our student-athletes.”
Either way, whether the reports are accurate or not, don’t expect Alabama to share any specific or individual news when it comes to which players may or may not have tested positive upon their return to Tuscaloosa.
It may be up to the players to individual share that information or chose to keep it to themselves.
Hey SDS, it’s despicable that you disable comments on articles that even whiff of racial controversy. It’s one thing to moderate a comment section and selectively remove offensive posts. It’s an entirely different thing to just assume it’s going to be a sh*t show and display no faith in the regular and faithful visitors to this site. I firmly believe in the freedom of speech, not just as a constitutional protection against government overreach, but as a pillar of a free, open, and just society.
Let people have a conversation and if anyone becomes overtly offensive or abusive, then remove their posts or even ban them altogether. But let a conversation occur. Let people voice their opinions.
I fully understand I am just a single person in the never-ending sea of random internet users, but if comment sections are continually disabled, I will stop coming to this site entirely.
Everything is offensive to someone. To claim you support censorship AND freedom of speech in the same post is especially ignorant and embarrassing.
That being said, you can post your comments to their articles anywhere you want – like right here.
We are by far the most racist program in the SEC. We lost a QB over it, and we have lost recruits over it. Nothing to be done but get over it and keep working to get better.
See below for my response to your multiple posts.
You know what is actually “ignorant and embarrassing”? Being a pathetic troll on the sports entertainment site.
We are racist.
Get over it.
“Woman explains why she released Jake Fromm text messages”
“He has been completely silent despite his career being built off of black people,” she said
This girl is racist too.
You hit the nail on the head.
Seriously… everyone talks about how we need to have “conversations” on racial issues but as soon as anyone starts talking, the “conversation” is shut down and the participants are smeared and shamed.
With a climate like this, it’s no wonder race relations have deteriorated so much the last couple decades.
” It’s one thing to moderate a comment section and selectively remove offensive posts.”
“I firmly believe in the freedom of speech,”
You are too stupid to even understand how dumb you proved yourself kid.
Censorship is evil.
It always leads to more censorship.
This is why you should stay in school kids.
Oof, logging in with multiple accounts, huh? My comment really got you that upset?
I never said I “supported” censorship. Here, I’ll post my quote: “It’s one thing to moderate a comment section and selectively remove offensive posts.”
That’s not an endorsement of censorship. But you’re most definitely too stupid to realize that. I’m not even saying it should happen. I’m just saying I understand that it does happen. Understanding that something does happen is not an endorsement.
Again, I fully understand that you are too stupid to grasp this.
” …if anyone becomes overtly offensive or abusive, then remove their posts or even ban them altogether.”
If you are too dumb to know you are wearing your hypocrisy on your sleeve, you are more dumb than we thought.
You know what’s worse than being dumb? Being a liar.
Stay in school kids, just not one in Georgia.
Not surprising that you missed my point again. I’m still not endorsing it or saying I support censorship. Rather, pointing out an alternative that a number of websites utilize. Not an ideal course of action, but better than selectively disabling the comment section altogether.
To think I’m actually supporting censorship, after the tone and content of my original post, speaks veritable volumes about your reading comprehension and your ability to form rational thoughts.
The cherry on the cake is you unironically calling me a liar. I hope one day years from now you’re able to eventually see the irony of that claim. But that’s of course assuming the last few twinkling neurons in your brain don’t fizzle out and you enter the vegetative mental state you’ve apparently been on the precipice of for years.
And of course, none of this is surprising; you’re the village idiot who persistently and poorly trolls under an obvious fake persona, despite the fact we all know you’re a sad troll with crushingly stupid juvenile antics. You’re a one trick clown who is too incompetent to pull off the childish schtick you’re attempting.
Stay in school kids. (outside Georgia)
You are flattering yourself. This is bamatimes personal troll.
There are gonna be more of these. The season is still in doubt.
We here in the state of Alabama are not known for our book smarts.
I can’t blame anyone who would take this opportunity to jump into the portal.
Saban is creepy, balding, short and ill-tempered. The dynasty is over and we are on the downward slope now.
Get while the getting is good.
All truvolling b s aside…this is exactly what many of us fear will shut down football for this season, hate to hear this and expect to hear of many more cases. Pandemic plus large protest groups equals bye bye team sports, hate to say.
Bubble slime, I’d give my stimulus check for an opportunity to curb stomp your aśs!
Go to Hades bubba
Ole bubbatime is right…you just too dumb to see it.
These are the Type of reports you don’t want to hear. This can end a season before it starts…
I absolutely agree
Totally disagree. This is why they brought the players in early. They want to see who has the virus so they can isolate it and move on. Every school should be prepared for players to show up and test positive. Not a big deal at all when it comes to playing the season.
Even though it’s still unknown if you can contract the virus a 2nd time? I hope you’re right
You are right. Enough of these reports and season won’t be played. To the detriment of our society.
Hey Bratton: instead of slamming the university for not breaking federal laws you should goggle Hippa. Maybe you would then understand why the players name wasn’t given. They aren’t hiding anything, they are abiding a federal law.
They could still confirm the number. Nothing related to Hippa there.
Bama and Georgia fans duking it out…..I’m in Heaven! Watch out tho, LegHumpers, Satan might put a hex on your program.
You’re an idiot.. Bubbatime isn’t a Bama fan. He is a troll just like you..
A PROFESSIONAL troll. Big difference.
The real news here is that players are showing up at college positive for the reason why 90% of us have had our lives totally put into suspended animation.
At what point will enough returning players, coaches, administrators, return that the obvious problem will be that there will be too many issues with trying to play football this Fall.
I am old. I have seen football all the way back to when it was usually a given that Ole Miss would be the preseason favorite to win the league, and Georgia Tech would probably be their top rival, and that being they were never on each other’s schedules, whether there was a chance that the two could meet in the Sugar or Orange Bowl.
I am old enough to have met as a youngster Johnny Vaught, Shug Jordan, Paul Dietzel, Bowden Wyatt, Ears Whitworth, Art Guepe, Bob Woodruff, Wally Butts, and Blanton Collier when they were head coaches in this league.
Contrary to what my friends think, I was not yet born when college football semi-shut down during WWII. Some teams fielded little more than intramural football with a small roster of 4F’s and 18 and 19-year olds with no other male sibling at home.
Even with the threat of Nazism and The Japanese expansionism leaving people worried early in the war that we were losing and possibly headed toward a future where we would have to sieg heil on the East Coast and Bow to the Emperor on the West Coast, sports were the escape. That’s why FDR ordered Major League Baseball to continue any way possible.
Until something major changes that proves to me otherwise, I do not believe there will be a college football season beginning on the Labor Day weekend. Five players at Alabama in June when the heat of Deep South Summer is here shows that this virus is not dying in hot weather like influenza. What happens if on the Thursday before Labor Day, 7 of the 14 SEC starting QBs all have fevers and are ordered into quarantine?
Obviously, if any of these players were injured during the week, their teams would keep playing. But, if Mac Jones suffers a concussion, 25 other players, 10 coaches, 4 people working in the athletic office, and 8,000 people will not come down with concussions just by coming to Bryant-Denny Stadium.
About the other part. All minorities, be they from race, religion, nationality, etc., will cease to suffer from the racism, bigotry, religious hate, etc. when instead of being labelled “something-American,” they are just labelled as American. Until being one shade is no different than being brown eyed, green eyed, or blue eyed, or is no different than being a brisket lover versus a spare rib lover, there will be strife in every corner of the Earth.
It is my opinion that powers that be fear unity, so they purposely arrange for the world to continually be opposed to each other so that we never see the “men behind the curtain.”
What happened in Minnesota was a murder, and the accused felon has been arrested and will be tried, almost assuredly convicted, and will most likely live the rest of his life in prison.
For that, a most definitely pre-planned uprising was scheduled and ready to be put in effect quickly at the first opportunity with the hope that while the rabble fights among each other, the real oppressors can concentrate more power and more financial strength at our expense.
Wake up and smell the global tyranny. When the Georgia fan and Alabama fan are ready to get into the same foxhole and defend our life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, then there is a chance. Until then, it just proves how intelligent Rod Serling was. The monsters have already arrived on Maple Street, and still the divided houses of neighbors fight each other without the monsters having to spare one drop of blood.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”–Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858
WOW….well thought out, except for the pre-planned paragraph…the rioters and looters only want to steal and rob. Abe quoted Mathew 12:25.
At least they’re testing the kids coming in and quarantining those that are positive. Should serve to reduce the spread which should allow for games later on. This is why experts have been calling for greatly increasing testing.
Also, I agree with the Tide not releasing names of players who are positive due to privacy concerns. But no harm in releasing raw numbers of people who are positive. Helps to see how much of a task lay ahead.
But this does more to help than hurt our chances of having CFB in the Fall.
Where’s the outrage for Tony Timpa?