Norvell denies Dabo declare that FSU ducked Tigers

At some point soon after Dabo Swinney urged that Florida Recount ducked Saturday’s game the exercise of a Clemson player’s definite COVID-19 test as an excuse, Seminoles coach Mike Norvell emphatically denied the price, announcing the choice to construct off was made fully by medical personnel.

Requested if COVID-19 was the explanation for the postponement, Norvell acknowledged, “Fully,” and reiterated that his coaches and gamers were wanting to play Saturday sooner than the college’s medical workers inch it unsafe to discontinuance so following data that one Clemson player who’d shown symptoms earlier in the week had been allowed to travel with the team to Tallahassee, Florida.

“Football coaches are no longer doctors. Some of us might possibly perhaps mediate we are, however there is a explanation why medical advisers salvage decisions in response to the records that is supplied,” Norvell acknowledged Monday. “It be wretched that opportunity has been delayed, however there is a cause other folks making those decisions dangle that responsibility.”

Norvell acknowledged he first discovered of the definite test on Clemson’s team throughout a venerable Friday evening call between medical examiners at every college. In step with FSU, Clemson urged the college of a symptomatic player who had participated in practices and traveled with the team. Clemson vital that correct protocols were adopted referring to masks and social distancing, and acknowledged the player was saved isolated throughout travel.

Norvell acknowledged that on a Saturday morning call that didn’t comprise the coaches, it was inch by Florida Recount’s medical workers that it was unsafe to proceed with the game.

Clemson supplied to retest gamers and workers and lengthen the game by a day or two, however FSU declined.

Swinney lambasted Florida Recount’s decision Sunday, suggesting that the Seminoles merely didn’t must play.

Norvell acknowledged Monday that he’d attempted to contact Swinney after the choice was made Saturday morning, however the two didn’t connect.

“We were inflamed to play this game,” Norvell acknowledged. “We’re a young team that needs every web we can regain. I am no longer concerned what every other coach says or thinks.”

Norvell examined definite for COVID-19 in gradual September, a day sooner than the team’s open date, and he subsequently overlooked the Seminoles’ competitors game in opposition to Miami. He acknowledged his have abilities with the virus has helped form his cautious potential to mitigating unfold.

While Florida Recount has no longer launched making an strive out numbers this year, a source acknowledged the football team had no longer had a definite test consequence since Norvell’s.