With Duke's players returning to campus, David Cutcliffe is telling his team to show discipline when not practicing, to avoid infection. He's giving the players responsibility to police themselves. "We're not putting a chip under your skin to GPS you"
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00:00It's a, probably the most difficult thing that we're going to face is that very item.
00:08We may have them, you know, in a normal circumstance, four hours a day is the max when school starts.
00:16That certainly will be the biggest issue.
00:19In camp, we can pretty much occupy them a great deal.
00:24I'm doing, actually going to build a book with a daily log.
00:29I'm working on that until my brain just quits working, but I mean literally what a daily
00:34log looks like for everyone, and so we as coaches and them as players can see how much
00:41free time they're going to have.
00:45I've actually told our players this, and this may seem naive, but I'm putting them in charge
00:52of that mitigation.
00:56I'm not going to follow them around.
00:58I told them we're not putting a chip, you know, under your skin to GPS you.
01:06There has to be responsibility on some 22 and 23 year olds to help.
01:14They know what each other are doing.
01:16Don't kid yourself.
01:17They know.
01:18They know what their other buddies' habits are.
01:22If they choose not to mitigate themselves, then we got a problem, and we've talked with
01:31them about it this entire time.
01:34I'll go back to when we first started hearing about phase two.
01:40I reminded every one of them, I said, what that means, reopen means recommitment, actually
01:46more commitment to mitigation than less.
01:52They were looking at me like, well, why?
01:54They said it's safe to reopen.
01:56No, they said that we can attempt to reopen, but if you mask and you physically distance
02:03and your hygiene work actually increases, you've got a shot at staying healthy.
02:10That's what it's about.