As we all know the game is cancelled, but shockingly it isn’t on the Pac-12 for once. Per John Wilner: It is strictly being called off by the City of Berkeley Public Health, and only them. Not even Alameda County is calling the game off. City of Berkeley has jurisdiction.
Now the conference and Larry Scott still suck Ballz, I’m not saying they don’t, so don’t twist. But apparently the Pac-12, Cal, and UW all want this game to go down. The cancellation is not due to the Pac-12 testing plan or any of their policies. If the game was at Stanford, USC, UCLA, literally any other city, it’s still on.
Cal is without their entire offensive line due to Berkeley city policies. Not the starting line, the entire position group. Everyone has to quarantine at home for 14 days. Only one player is positive. He is asymptomatic. All other players in contact with him have continued to test negatively since they were last in contact with him. Cal’s protocol and the Pac-12 protocol and the entire testing system that the season was delayed for to make sure was in place..... all of it worked. The kid tested positive and was separated before he could spread it to his teammates.
Cal devised an entire system that would work with Berkeley’s regulations on social distancing, player pods, etc., etc., all to avoid this very situation. Had one player tested positive and was quarantined immediately, and all players around him continued to test negative, those players would not need to be quarantined. Those were the agreements. The City of Berkeley Public Health has decided to overrule those previous conditions.
Justin Wilcox is pissed. Jimmy Lake is pissed. Apparently even the Pac-12 is pissed. Wilcox and the conference have asked what needs to happen to never have this situation again, and they haven’t gotten an answer.
For once this isn’t on the conference. If this game was played in any other city, it still goes on. If it was any other position group besides OL and QB, the game goes on. Players play out of position and lets go. At this point, 14 day quarantine rules has likely fucked Cal for next week’s game against ASU, and it isn’t out of the realm of possibility this happens to Cal again this year. It doesn’t seem like there will be a rampant cancelling of games through the Pac-12 this season. Unless it’s in Berkeley.
I’m not here to discuss the virus, restrictions and policies, politics, or anything like that. Take it to the Tug. I’m just here to watch football and discuss football with you jackasses.
But seriously. WTF Berkeley?

FYFMFE.