Duke is one of the last teams to return to campus, and David Cutcliffe said that gives the program a chance to see what went wrong with other team's returns
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00:00You know, I have mixed emotions about the late coming back or the early coming back.
00:06Some people would look at it and nobody, I don't, I've talked to coaches that have had problems.
00:11Nobody's trying to get them, you know, get the disease and then have it behind you, you know,
00:17like it's been suggested by some. But, you know, obviously if our guys don't do a great job,
00:23we're starting to move in toward camp and it can affect you a great deal if others can put it
00:29behind them. But I still believe that waiting till after the 4th of July was key for us.
00:36I think sitting back and letting these guys see what's occurred gives us a better chance
00:43for them to understand the seriousness of this. I am very optimistic still. I was extremely
00:53optimistic maybe six weeks ago to a month. But with the late, you know, one was we all thought
01:00hot weather would help us and that has not been the case. But two, as we have reopened,
01:09seeing how difficult it is for the general population to live strictly into mitigation,
01:17it makes you a little less optimistic. I think that we're still, there's a lot of things on
01:26the table one week at a time as to how you do this. And I believe we can do this. I don't think
01:33our world is going to have to stop. But I think our world needs to become more disciplined. I do.
01:41So hopefully we're disciplined enough to play some football. I don't think the game of football
01:47once we got people on the field outside, I don't see unless we got somebody severely sick playing.
01:54And that concerns me not for us, but that concerns me about who were playing. Are they involved in
02:01the same testing and the same protocol? I think that's what the Big Ten basically said yesterday.
02:08And I think at this point, that's extremely important.