Buckeyes on pause | Could COVID concerns bleed into season again?

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🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State announced on Tuesday that it was suspending all football-related team activities for one week due to an increased number of COVID-19 tests within the program. Is there reason to be concerned? Matt Baxendell joins Dave Biddle on today's show to give opinions on that, which OSU players can help themselves the most at pro day on March 30 and more.

All of that is coming your way on the Wednesday 5ish.

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0:00.0	Good morning, Bucknotters.
0:29.9	Welcome to the Bucknotts Morning 5 here on Wednesday, March 10th, 2021.
0:34.3	I am Dave Biddle.
0:35.3	I am joined by Matt Baxendell.
0:38.0	All right, Bax.
0:39.2	Ohio State announced yesterday the football team is going on in one week pause.
0:43.4	They are pausing all team-related activities for one week due to an increase
0:48.0	number of COVID-19 tests within the program.
0:51.2	I'll give my opinion in a moment.
0:52.6	I know fans are concerned about this.
0:55.0	Should fans be concerned about this?
0:57.3	I don't think so too much.
0:59.0	Let's be honest, you take a week off right now and you're still back to active by the
1:03.4	time you have spring football scheduled to start, right?
1:06.7	I'm pleasant and as you've seen this headline again, team activities pause for X amount
1:12.4	of time, right?
1:13.4	That was the constant war on our football news for the entirety of 2020, right?
1:20.5	So it's a horribly unpleasant line to see again.
1:24.1	But I don't think it's going to be the sort of thing that is going to be pervasive and
1:28.6	even delaying spring football, much less being a longer term problem moving forward.
1:33.5	In today's increased vaccination society that we have, by the time the fall rolls around,
1:40.6	I think you're going to see a large majority of the general population vaccinated.
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