Some teams play by the stove, then wonder why they get burned.
Think Florida football.
Gators coach Dan Mullen called for 90,000 fans to pack their stadium last week — treating the potential superspreader event as collateral damage for a better home-field advantage — only for the game to be postponed after the coronavirus ripped through his team as if it was a mid-tier SEC offense. Mullen and 25 players tested positive.
A top-down culture of indifference was clear.
That’s not the case with the University of Toledo basketball team.
Just the opposite, the irony of the Rockets being in the headlines for an outbreak is that they have respected their opponent.