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Advertisement9 OU football players test positive for COVID-19, coach Lincoln Riley saysHide TranscriptShow TranscriptCOACH LINCOLN RILEY, WHO CONFIRMED THAT JUST HOURS AGO. KOCO’S PORSHA RILEY TONIGHT WITH THE LATEST. COAC RILEY: DISAPPOINTED BY THE NEWS, OBVIOUSLY. PORSHA: NINE PLAYERS IN TOTAL COMING DOWN WITH THE VIRUS. THE TESTS CONDUCTED LAST NIGHT WITH THE RESULTS COMING IN THIS MORNING. COACH RILEY: WE DON’T HAVE A BUBBLE. WE GET THAT WE’RE ALL GOING TO HAVE TO WORK TO DO A BETTER JOB ON ALL ACCOUNTS. WE’RE STILL VERY CONFIDENT IN THE PLAN THAT WE’VE HAD. WE CAN TRY TO MINIMIZE THESE RISKS AS MUCH AS WE POSSIB WANT, BUT WE’RE NEVER GOING TO BE ABLE TO ELIMINATE THEM 100%. PORSHA: RILEY SAYS A HANDFUL OF OTHE PLAYERS ARE ALSO BEING ISOLATED AFTER CONTACT TRACING COACH RILEY: WE REMOVE THEM FROM THE TEAM, PUT THEM IN QUARANTINE, AND THEN, IF THE STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT DEEM THAT THEY WERE NOT A HIGH-RISK CONTACT, THEN WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ADD THEM BACK IN. THE TWO TIMES THAT WE’VE HAD ANY SERIOUS NUMBER OF CASES HAVE BEEN WHEN WE BROUGHT OUR PLAYERS BACK ORIGINALLY AND THEN HER AFTER HAVING A FEW DAYS WHERE WE , HAVE NOT HAD ANY ORGANIZED TEAM ACTIVITIES. PORSHA: THE TEAM NOW FOCUSED ON GETTING EVERYONE HEALTHY. COACH RILEY: WE STILL REFERENCE THE ALMOST WELL-OVER-A-MONTH-LONG PERIOD OF SUCCESS WHEN OUR PLAYERS WERE HERE WITH US EVERY DAY THAT WE WENT THROUGH AND WERE ABLE TO SUBSTANTIALLY MINIMIZE POSITAdvertisement9 OU football players test positive for COVID-19, coach Lincoln Riley saysOklahoma football coach Lincoln Riley announced Saturday that nine players have tested positive for COVID-19 after the team's latest round of testing.During a Zoom call with the media Saturday, Riley said nine players tested positive for the virus and a couple others – a "relatively small number" – have been isolated due to contact tracing that was conducted by the Oklahoma State Department of Health. Riley told members of the media that the tests were conducted Friday night and the results came back Saturday morning.The football team briefly paused practice because of the alterations to the 2020 football schedule. Team officials said last week that players were able to go home for several days starting Aug. 9 before returning to campus."Disappointed by the news, obviously. We’ve done such a tremendous job really this entire time and certainly you know when you give your players some time that there is risk in that," Riley said. "And so, the two times that we’ve had any serious number of cases have been when we brought our players back originally and then here after having a few days where we have not had any organized team activities."Riley added that the news is an opportunity for the team and coaching staff to learn and educate themselves about the situation."The reality is this isn’t the NBA. This is college football. We can try to minimize these risks as much as we possibly want, but we’re never going to have a … be able to eliminate them 100%. We don’t have a bubble. We get that we’re all going to have to work to do a better job on all accounts," Riley said.The head football coach said he and the program are still confident in the plan that's been in place, citing "well over a monthlong period of success when our players were here with us every day that we went through and were able to substantially minimize positive tests.""We’re going to continue to monitor that very, very closely, which we have, and we’ll continue to do so," Riley said. "This is new. We’re confident in our policies. We’re confident in what we’re doing, but we also understand that there’s going to be curveballs. There’s going to be things that come up that where we’ll have to adjust, and we’ve, I think, shown a willingness to do that up to this point, and we’re going to continue to do so.”Oklahoma football coach Lincoln Riley announced Saturday that nine players have tested positive for COVID-19 after the team's latest round of testing.During a Zoom call with the media Saturday, Riley said nine players tested positive for the virus and a couple others – a "relatively small number" – have been isolated due to contact tracing that was conducted by the Oklahoma State Department of Health. Riley told members of the media that the tests were conducted Friday night and the results came back Saturday morning.AdvertisementThe football team because of the alterations to the 2020 football schedule. Team officials said last week that players were able to go home for several days starting Aug. 9 before returning to campus."Disappointed by the news, obviously. We’ve done such a tremendous job really this entire time and certainly you know when you give your players some time that there is risk in that," Riley said. "And so, the two times that we’ve had any serious number of cases have been when we brought our players back originally and then here after having a few days where we have not had any organized team activities."Riley added that the news is an opportunity for the team and coaching staff to learn and educate themselves about the situation."The reality is this isn’t the NBA. This is college football. We can try to minimize these risks as much as we possibly want, but we’re never going to have a … be able to eliminate them 100%. We don’t have a bubble. We get that we’re all going to have to work to do a better job on all accounts," Riley said.The head football coach said he and the program are still confident in the plan that's been in place, citing "well over a monthlong period of success when our players were here with us every day that we went through and were able to substantially minimize positive tests.""We’re going to continue to monitor that very, very closely, which we have, and we’ll continue to do so," Riley said. "This is new. We’re confident in our policies. We’re confident in what we’re doing, but we also understand that there’s going to be curveballs. There’s going to be things that come up that where we’ll have to adjust, and we’ve, I think, shown a willingness to do that up to this point, and we’re going to continue to do so.”This content is imported from Facebook.You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.Loading more articles...

Advertisement9 OU football players test positive for COVID-19, coach Lincoln Riley saysHide TranscriptShow TranscriptCOACH LINCOLN RILEY, WHO CONFIRMED THAT JUST HOURS AGO. KOCO’S PORSHA RILEY TONIGHT WITH THE LATEST. COAC RILEY: DISAPPOINTED BY THE NEWS, OBVIOUSLY. PORSHA: NINE PLAYERS IN TOTAL COMING DOWN WITH THE VIRUS. THE TESTS CONDUCTED LAST NIGHT WITH THE RESULTS COMING IN THIS MORNING. COACH RILEY: WE DON’T HAVE A BUBBLE. WE GET THAT WE’RE ALL GOING TO HAVE TO WORK TO DO A BETTER JOB ON ALL ACCOUNTS. WE’RE STILL VERY CONFIDENT IN THE PLAN THAT WE’VE HAD. WE CAN TRY TO MINIMIZE THESE...

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