{"id":5261,"date":"2020-08-17T08:40:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2020-08-17T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:40:22","slug":"comments-from-libertys-head-football-coach-on-covid-19-testing-spark-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5261","title":{"rendered":"Comments from Liberty&rsquo;s head football coach on COVID-19 testing spark complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"display: block\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-ns\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberty.edu\/templates\/libertyflames\/images\/staff\/Freeze,%20Hugh%20(2020).jpg\" \/><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Liberty football is hearing complaints from upcoming opponents about their coronavirus testing protocols.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the head coach claims the school hasn&rsquo;t been testing their athletes regularly.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve gone over two weeks without having a test because no one&rsquo;s experiencing any symptoms. Everyone is out of quarantine. We haven&rsquo;t had a positive in over three weeks. So we&rsquo;re blessed right now,&rdquo; said High Freeze, head football coach at Liberty University.<\/p>\n<p>Those words from Freeze on Friday raised eyebrows, ESPN quoting Syracuse&rsquo;s athletic director as saying, &ldquo;Coach Freeze&rsquo;s comments describing Liberty&rsquo;s inadequate approach to COVID-19 testing are deeply troubling.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty athletics department has since issued a response saying they are following CDC and other guidelines, and has done baseline testing for the entire football team bubble.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qishytGdZ5U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsls.com\/news\/local\/2020\/08\/17\/liberty-football-openents-complain-of-inadequate-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty football is hearing complaints from upcoming opponents about their coronavirus testing protocols.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the head coach&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5261\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comments from Liberty&rsquo;s head football coach on COVID-19 testing spark complaints<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-comments-from-libertys-head-football-coach-on-covid-testing-spark-complaints","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1mR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5262,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions\/5262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}