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I'm pretty sure that Kelly said in a Press Conference by TWO

a couple of weeks ago that they were making the vaccine available to the players, I think starting last week when the rest of the student body also had it made available.

Now in that press conference he said he wasn't sure about making it a requirement but that the were going to have meetings about the benefits to getting the vaccine.

But since then ND has said in order to return to campus this fall you will have to be vaccinated. They will allow exceptions for medical conditions.

edit: found his comments


Players will be able to get the vaccine from April 10 through the 15, and then get their second dose three weeks later.

Irish head coach Brian Kelly is not making the vaccine mandatory for his team, but wants to give them all the option to take it.

“We outlined some of the obvious advantages of having it,” Kelly said. “One of the big ones obviously would be that they could go home and not have to quarantine coming back. Others that are certainly on the horizon that have not been fully established yet would be smaller groups no masks, a chance that we could potentially eat together. Again, we did not mandate it but we talked about the vaccine itself, in terms of what it is.”