Brian Kelly Details Some Of The Flu Issues The Team Has Been Dealing With Lately

Following the Arkansas win two weeks ago, Brian Kelly said that Harold Perkins played through the flu and had his best game of the year.

On Monday, it was revealed that quarterback Jayden Daniels also had the flu during the Arkansas game week.

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"I'm not going to give him any excuse as to why he didn't prepare as well or couldn't prepare as well," Kelly said. "But that Arkansas week he had the flu. He was sick, and it just wasn't the kind of preparation necessary.

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Kelly wrapped up his press conference Monday by talking about the team's health in regard to the flu that is going around.

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Q. So it seems like in the past couple of weeks a good bit of your players have gotten sick with the flu, but Harold Perkins played his best game. You said Jayden could have prepared better. What do you think how motivated they are to play even though they have to sometimes play through illnesses?

BRIAN KELLY: Yeah, I think they all want to play regardless. You know, DeMario Tolan had a 102 temperature on Friday, so we pulled him out of the hotel. His fever broke, and we were able to play him.

Kayshon was sick. He tried to play. We gave him an IV. He couldn't answer the bell.

I mean, everybody is individually different in terms of how they get through it, but they all want to play. They all want to fight through it. Generally, we've been very lucky that it's been a quick-moving flu in terms of 24 hours. Once they get through it, they've been able to bounce back and play for us.

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