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Post by Willard Fillmore on Oct 2, 2020 17:47:59 GMT -5
Our Governor changed Richland Country from Yellow to Red today primarily due to the outbreak of The Virus at a Richland County correctional facility. Ontario's CC teams were set to travel to Mt.Gilead for a meet tomorrow. They called Ontario and told them not to come, which they could not have done yesterday. Ontario is not like the rest of Richland Country, no students or staff is known to have the virus. Ontario schools can't participate in sports due to prisoners at a prison contracting the Virus??
Did Pleasant call and tell Ontario they didn't want them playing a football there tonight. Can Vermilion say they refuse to play Ontario next week in a playoff game? Can the OHSAA ban a school from competing in post season meets or games due to their county being made RED by one man?
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Post by usramfan on Oct 3, 2020 7:47:27 GMT -5
Our Governor changed Richland Country from Yellow to Red today primarily due to the outbreak of The Virus at a Richland County correctional facility. Ontario's CC teams were set to travel to Mt.Gilead for a meet tomorrow. They called Ontario and told them not to come, which they could not have done yesterday. Ontario is not like the rest of Richland Country, no students or staff is known to have the virus. Ontario schools can't participate in sports due to prisoners at a prison contracting the Virus?? Did Pleasant call and tell Ontario they didn't want them playing a football there tonight. Can Vermilion say they refuse to play Ontario next week in a playoff game? Can the OHSAA ban a school from competing in post season meets or games due to their county being made RED by one man? The OHSAA has said that if a team cannot play its game on ths scheduled day, it becomes a forfeit and the other team advances. It's as simple as that. |
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Post by Willard Fillmore on Oct 3, 2020 8:32:53 GMT -5
What if a team CAN play, but the opponent doesn't want to play them? What if a team CAN play, but someone makes a unilateral decision about the county the school is in?
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Post by dude on Oct 3, 2020 9:57:32 GMT -5
Our Governor changed Richland Country from Yellow to Red today primarily due to the outbreak of The Virus at a Richland County correctional facility. Ontario's CC teams were set to travel to Mt.Gilead for a meet tomorrow. They called Ontario and told them not to come, which they could not have done yesterday. Ontario is not like the rest of Richland Country, no students or staff is known to have the virus. Ontario schools can't participate in sports due to prisoners at a prison contracting the Virus?? Did Pleasant call and tell Ontario they didn't want them playing a football there tonight. Can Vermilion say they refuse to play Ontario next week in a playoff game? Can the OHSAA ban a school from competing in post season meets or games due to their county being made RED by one man? The OHSAA has said that if a team cannot play its game on ths scheduled day, it becomes a forfeit and the other team advances. It's as simple as that. This has always been the case. The team that causes the cancelation of the event is the one to forfeit. If Vermilion says they do not want to play, regardless of the reason, it goes down as a forfeit by them. |
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Post by baldref on Oct 3, 2020 10:11:06 GMT -5
Better question is if county turns purple, will football teams be permitted to play in playoffs especially if they are to host
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Post by nattydaddy on Oct 5, 2020 13:41:02 GMT -5
Better question is if county turns purple, will football teams be permitted to play in playoffs especially if they are to host Bingo. This is the precisely the problem Richland County is going to run into if COVID cases don’t plateau. The other question is if a school is scheduled to play a purple county opponent in playoffs and their health department says “do not play this game” then the question becomes who has to forfeit? |
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Post by Willard Fillmore on Oct 5, 2020 21:53:17 GMT -5
Why is it that ALL schools are treated the same in a country, when it is well known what part of the county is the problem.
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Post by fanofthegame on Oct 6, 2020 6:53:12 GMT -5
I bumped into an AD. He said sports are only cancelled for purple. School has to go remote learning at that point, too. I have not confirmed that independently. I’m assuming he knows what he is talking about as the AD.
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Post by dude on Oct 6, 2020 7:07:02 GMT -5
Two weekends ago this county set up 4 stations in different areas and offered free Covid testing. This resulted in about 500 tests given and a big part of the reason for the spike.
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Post by MansburgBuck on Oct 6, 2020 7:12:26 GMT -5
Two weekends ago this county set up 4 stations in different areas and offered free Covid testing. This resulted in about 500 tests given and a big part of the reason for the spike. I heard the superintendents were talking to the health department about letting sports continue if we go purple, no fans would be allowed, but the games could go on. |
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Post by dude on Oct 6, 2020 9:42:42 GMT -5
Two weekends ago this county set up 4 stations in different areas and offered free Covid testing. This resulted in about 500 tests given and a big part of the reason for the spike. I heard the superintendents were talking to the health department about letting sports continue if we go purple, no fans would be allowed, but the games could go on. Someone needs to challenge and remove the color chart that is meaningless. |
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Post by fanofthegame on Oct 6, 2020 12:06:27 GMT -5
The color system factors in rate of rise. If you had five positives last week and 15 this week you tripled. That sounds bad, but it is 15 positives in a county with over 120,000 people. Tripling is a big deal if you go from 1000 positives to 3000.
Positives did go up, but hospitalizations did not. Typically they do lag, but this may be influenced by increased testing of low risk people. Younger workers are being tested due to exposures AND their families when they are positive.
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Post by BellevueBuckeye on Oct 6, 2020 17:27:56 GMT -5
I bumped into an AD. He said sports are only cancelled for purple. School has to go remote learning at that point, too. I have not confirmed that independently. I’m assuming he knows what he is talking about as the AD. Anyone how this how this works for school districts in multiple counties? Would it go into effect if any county your district touches goes purple? |
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Post by Willard Fillmore on Oct 6, 2020 20:00:37 GMT -5
Those in charge have a DOUBLE chance to make an example, for political gain, of a district that has done nothing wrong and everything right.
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Post by shelbyrr11 on Oct 6, 2020 21:25:39 GMT -5
Shelby Daily Globe had a front page article stating Shelby goes remote in the event of a "code purple." Richland Source has an article with DeWine noting the color system is meant for public awareness of the trajectory of a county, and not as a benchmark for punitive action. This seems to imply sports could go on as planned, so long as we recognize that Richland County is headed in the wrong direction for containment, however benign the momentum in that direction is. I can support the logic behind that where we should catch these things sooner than later (the concern is that people consider that logic as "crying wolf"). Hopefully districts like Shelby and Ontario can convey their diligence for public health whilst communicating their ability to proceed with class and athletics.
Problem is half of these psychos prefer Facebook headlines as a medium for news. It's like catching water in a laundry basket.
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Post by baldref on Oct 7, 2020 9:37:28 GMT -5
It would be a travesty if schools, sports, extra curriculars etc are penalized when a county goes purple and there is No indication of a COVID surge or problem in the school itself. I fear that Richland County schools will be the ones penalized over this as it seems apparent that that county will go "purple" and I look for the OHSAA to step in and say no-go.
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Post by unc4life on Oct 7, 2020 13:02:47 GMT -5
The reality is this...the code system means nothing, and at the end of the day the only people that people in the county need to worry about is the Health Department in that county. DeWine is not going to tell Mansfield they cant play Friday night. The state is not going to tell schools to shut down or go remote. They might want that, and they might get that, but the end of the day its going to be the local health department that makes that call and takes the heat. My guess is schools have been taking with officials all week.
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Post by whippetfan on Oct 8, 2020 14:32:42 GMT -5
No counties went purple today. In the clear for now.
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Post by Willard Fillmore on Oct 9, 2020 13:52:25 GMT -5
31 prisoners were transferred to MANCI from somewhere this week. Supposedly when they left where they came from they tested negative, but when they got to Mansfield they tested positive. Imagine that. OBVIOULSLY they wouldn't transfer their healthy prisoners. NEXT....11 Mansfield firemen test positive. If it were not for stupid prisons and first responders Richland Country wouldn't be "red".
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