Alcorn State is facing a serious issue this week without a medical staff, and that puts the Braves in a precarious position entering this week’s game at South Alabama.

They cancelled practice Monday, and also may not practice Tuesday.

At issue is the football program currently does not have any full-time athletic trainers to care for its players, and the part-time trainers who have been covering the Lorman, Mississippi, program have tested positive for COVID-19, FootballScoop reported.

Alcorn coach Fred McNair discussed the situation during his Monday night radio show.

“The biggest thing that is such a heartbreaking thing, is when you have meeting in the morning time, to talk about a great win and move on to the next game and come to find out we can’t practice because we don’t have athletic trainers on campus,” McNair told host Charles Edmond. “That’s deflating. That’s unacceptable for me as a football coach.

McNair noted that it’s a money game for the university, and spoke to the unknown of what may happen the next day.

“This is something that needs to be fixed,” McNair said. “This is an administration issue. I could talk about it all the way till I turn blue. This has got to be fixed. We’ve got to be able to pay somebody to be the Alcorn State athletic trainer, and we don’t have one. That’s disheartening. I told the players the reason we weren’t going to practice this morning was because we didn’t have a certified trainer and you could hear the room. It was a bad feeling for me to have to tell the guys.”