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MSU AD says Spartans will have ‘added precautions’ for Saturday’s game vs Indiana
By Paul Harvey
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Michigan State is planning on having more precautions in place for the football team Saturday, AD Bill Beekman announced Saturday morning.
During his pre-game show, Beekman admitted there is a bit of a scare due to the rising COVID-19 numbers. Among those numbers was a positive test to head basketball coach Tom Izzo, something that Beekman admitted has confused the administration. According to Beekman, he has consistently seen Izzo wear a mask for the past six months.
One change for the football team on Saturday is that those players not active will not be in the stands when the Spartans take on the Hoosiers. Inactive players were allowed to watch the Rutgers game from the stands in Week 1, but that will not be the case this weekend.
Chris Solari with the Detroit Free Press shared Beekman’s comments:
MSU AD Bill Beekman on WJR pregame show calls it “a little bit of a scary time” with rising COVID numbers. Says Tom Izzo’s diagnosis part of that after not seeing him without a mask for at least the last 6 months. “We’re all a little perplexed how this happened.”
— Chris Solari (@chrissolari) November 14, 2020
Beekman said “it was a locker room that was shaking for a while” after MSU won at Michigan. COVID rules did not allow team to celebrate on field with Paul Bunyan Trophy.
— Chris Solari (@chrissolari) November 14, 2020
Kickoff between the Spartans and Hoosiers is set for 12 pm EST on ABC.
Paul is a lifelong fan and student of all things college football. He has been covering college football since 2017 and the B1G since 2018.