Report: Notre Dame Cancels Tuesday Practice
According to Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports, Notre Dame has canceled its Tuesday practice.
Thamel noted that Notre Dame announced four positive COVID-19 tests on Monday as the reason, but according to Irish Breakdown's sources the issue goes deeper than just the four new positive tests, but nothing has been confirmed by anyone at Notre Dame.
It remains to be seen if Notre Dame will need to go through another round of testing in order to get back on the practice field in advance of Saturday's game against Wake Forest. Having to cancel a Tuesday practice is a step in the wrong direction in regards to playing on Friday, and new tests along with the players that were already expected to be out this weekend could make things dicey for the Irish.
The good news for Notre Dame and Wake Forest is that both programs have a bye week scheduled for next weekend (Oct. 3), which could make postponing the game an extra week more workable. There has been no word from Notre Dame regarding the reasons for the canceled practice or about how it impacts this weekend's game, but it's worth pointing out the schedules for both programs just in case things continue to take a turn for the worse for Notre Dame.
2:43 PM UPDATE - The latest intel I'm getting is that Notre Dame and Wake Forest will not be playing this weekend and are looking to reschedule.
2:20 PM UPDATE - My sources have made it clear the decision to cancel today's practice is not related simply to yesterday's release that four players had tested positive for COVID-19 and that 10 were held out due to quarantine. This was more of a cumulative effect that involved players that tested positive last week, yesterday and the contract tracing that also took out more players than those who actually tested positive.
I'm also told by two sources that there were more positive tests today, but Notre Dame has not confirmed that at this point, so right now it's simply something that has not been made official by the school. It was the most recent jump in positives plus the even larger jump in contract tracing losses that resulted in Notre Dame canceling today's practice.
To make matters worse, at least one position has been decimated by contact tracing, which further adds to the issue.
I'm told there will be another round of tests tomorrow, and there is growing concern among my sources that this weekend's game could be in jeopardy.
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