I'm not sure I'm buying it. It could just as easily be:
"Several players attended a house party. They were passing around beer bongs and hooking up with randos. But then they tested positive, knew the coaches would blast them, and blamed it on a pregame meal."
Like I said, I'm curious about the environmental conditions of that pregame meal. Did they have 150 players and staff. plus 25 unknown servers, crammed into the interior dining room of a hotel, with poor circulation and no mask-wearing by the staff? 'Cause that's about the only situation I see where it could spread like that, and if that's what it looked like, then they're idiots.
But I'm not so sure they'd enter into a situation like that and just let it ride.