U40: Oklahoma now dealing with major COVID-19 fallout

Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

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🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

COVID-19 (coronavirus) hit home Wednesday night when the NBA shutdown the Thunder game and shutdown NBA basketball. The reverberations are now being felt all over the college landscape as the Big 12 basketball tournaments have been cancelled and spring football is in jeopardy. We bring you all the latest in this week's MidFirst Bank Unofficial 40 podcast. We also talk about what we learned from one day of spring football practice and we hear from Lincoln Riley and Alex Grinch. Will football resume this spring? We're not sure at this point. Recruiting is also going to take a step back as well and we cover all the latest from the recruiting trail as well. An important episode, a tumultuous time in OU athletics. The full rundown follows below: 00:00 - Hello, Corona 25:00 - Oh , spring football has started; how does this affect recruiting? 41:00 - Okay, let's talk spring football 1:09 - Visit recaps; Sooners did host a number of 5-stars early this week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to be? News team, assemble, assemble!
0:17.0	Asemble! It's back and bigger than ever. It's the unofficial 40 from Sooner Scoop.com.
0:31.0	Now here's the entire sooner scoop crew carry Josh Eddie and Bob
0:54.4	All right welcome back. It is another edition of the Unofficial 40, the world coming to an end edition of the Unofficial 40 of the Unofficial 40 is we come to you on the precipice of the apocalypse.
1:04.1	Yes, that's right. The Big 12 basketball tournament has been canceled. We don't know what's going to happen with the NCAA basketball tournament. OU football has canceled their media availability today. The university says
1:09.4	that they will go to online schooling after two weeks after the spring break period is over which is next
1:17.3	week and we have so much stuff going on that it's hard to keep up with it with all the closures and the
1:25.5	postponements and I know that it's gone so far as professional tennis has been
1:32.1	canceled but obviously here on so far as professional tennis has been canceled.
1:33.5	But obviously here locally in Oklahoma City,
1:36.4	it all started last night when the Utah Jazz
1:40.8	and Oklahoma City Thunder left the floor right as they're about to tip off and then it
1:45.4	came out that Rudy Gober had the coronavirus and it has been just mass this mass that because the NBA canceled their season and it's been a it's
1:57.3	been a snowball effect it's been an avalanche of suspensions of closings and I'm almost afraid to start this pod today because one we have
2:10.0	Josh McQuishin who I don't know really how to describe what Josh's last couple of
2:17.9	weeks have been like. He's been fighting with a lot of people on Twitter.
2:23.0	God has stricken him with a disease.
2:26.0	Talk to him, Josh. Let him know exactly how horrible you sound.
2:31.0	I, and I said when you, came in earlier I sound much better than I
2:35.8	did on Monday so if I've had the coronavirus it passed in about 48 hours so
2:41.9	you know we're doing fine. No, but seriously, you're right. I've been no no I've been into it with a lot of people and I I still think there is this just panic that is not
2:57.2	necessary but I will say that talking a lot of people on Twitter and I
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