Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski expressed concern on Tuesday that college basketball is "plowing ahead" amidst the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
coach. There's four a C C programs right now canceling games this week due to cove it. And you also see programs trying to approach how maneuver through the holiday. And you even have Jeff cable saying yesterday, something doesn't feel right about playing right now to something doesn't feel right to you current. No, I don't think it feels right to anybody. I mean, everyone is concerned, you know? Yeah, we made an assessment, or I'm not sure who weeds college basketball, you know, stunned by committee of oversight committee of this committee and anything that's led by committee, um, is not agile in handling a situation. Yeah. So we made an assessment, and there was a consensus it wasn't, like, well planned that we're going to start November 25th. Yeah, that was made without knowing if there's gonna be where the vaccine waas How many cases you know. And basically, it was more of a mentality. Get his many games in its possible. And I would just like for just for the safety, the mental health and the physical health of our players and staff for their like to assess where we're at in our country today. there's You have 2000 deaths a day. Yeah, you have 200,000 cases of million and a half last week. You have people saying that the next six weeks, they're gonna be the worst. To me, it's already pretty bad. And and on the other side of it there, there are these vaccines that are coming out that we're people say that by the end of the month, 20 million, You know, the vaccine shots will be given especially to our health care to the, you know, the people who need it. And by the end of January, in the January in February, another 100 million. Well, should we not reassess that, You know, and, you know, see, just see what would be best? Uh huh. What would be best? And look, I'm gonna do whatever they say. We're gonna make the most out of everything. We say everything. That's not You know, that said, but yeah, it's a different time. It's just a different a different time. And yeah, look, I just got my butt beat Biwott. So anything I say, someone could say, Well, he's saying that because he got his butt big. And you know, what I do. I think things should be done a little bit differently. Yeah. I mean, there, uh, you know, a lot of kids aren't gonna be able to go home for Christmas Is probably a time where they should for mental health. Uh huh. We're just plowing through this and Yeah, I talked. It was texting with Steve Forbes last night. You know, his own son. Got it. Five players got it. You know, really, even we should get up there. It says so. How maney. How many programs around? Pause a week. How many cases there were? What's going on instead of just plowing through? Yeah. All right. Uh, and but look, I know somebody will take what I'm saying tonight and make it like, making excuses. I hope I don't I don't make excuses. We're way need to get a lot better. But for the good of the game and the good of the safety and the mental and physical health of our players and staff and whatever, we need to constantly look at this thing and I think that's I think that's a smart thing to do. And whatever happens as a result of looking at it. Understand that? There our vaccines coming? Yeah, All right. I know the A is worried about the end game. They're not us worried about the game we're playing right now that you know they're there. And yeah. And who is it that you talked to, like, you know, you're asking May, but shouldn't Do you know who to call to ask about that? Andi, You know, we're smiling and we're but that's sad, right? I think that's sad. That's not not the way that and again when I killed us, we're not that good. God, God, God bless everyone.