Duke's football players begin returning to campus on Sunday. Coach David Cutcliffe walks through what the process will be like and all the work that will be done before workouts can resume.
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00:00talking about public information with any COVID-19 testing results.
00:06Can you imagine, you remember a few years ago when we had all the hoopla with the coaches,
00:11when we were doing the Thursday release of injuries?
00:17Can you imagine how upset some of those guys that didn't like it would be?
00:23You're playing a game and you've got an injury list and then you have a COVID list you have to
00:28release. It could get unique in a hurry. Scouting reports will take on a new meaning
00:36in the coaching profession, but let me give you first just a little bit about what we're doing
00:42Sunday. There's a protocol to everything we're going to do. Actually, the players,
00:48if someone brings them, like our newcomers would be generally going to have parents with them,
00:54when they go over to the stadium where we're doing testing, we won't be around,
00:59nothing but medical people. Their parents will not get out of a car. The player only goes down
01:06and they do the symptom monitoring and then they do the test. The player goes back,
01:11goes to their dorm room, goes back there. Their parents help them put things in and then say
01:20goodbye. They are quarantined. It'll be the most unusual startup for our new incomers that you've
01:29ever seen. We won't see them. We're going to have a Sunday night team meeting via Zoom and we won't
01:36see them until we know the results of the test, whenever that occurs. And then because our guys
01:43haven't been here, the next protocol will be our medical community doing physicals and assessments.
01:50So you're going to be seeing people quarantined. We're going to evaluate the conditioning level
01:58of players. You don't just go out there and start cold, not really understanding where we are. We're
02:06going to do as much warm weather work as we can. I've talked and met with Coach Durfee and his staff
02:12at length. People don't think about that. Everybody's focused on the positive or negative
02:18test, but none of us have been outside as much as we normally would be, particularly players.
02:24So we're going to do a heat acclimatization along with assessment of soft tissue, muscles,
02:32where we are. We've got a month to do that before we start camp and we're going to utilize our time
02:39well.