Journalist @patrick_hruby
on sports and COVID-19: “It’s going to be so hard for these sports even if they are trying very hard to do this successfully when the rest of society is also falling on its face. We have not controlled this virus at all.”
"The rampant pessimism about the possibility of playing college football in the fall of 2020 has spiraled to fatalism."
“Right now, I don’t see a path in the current environment to how we play,” said a Power Five athletic director. “I’m confident we’ll get back to what we all think of as normal, but it may be a year before that happens.”
"Here’s the cruel truth about how college football leaders approached football this fall: The entirety of their plan to return was based on hope. Hope that the COVID-19 would go away. Hope that college campuses wouldn’t be a petri dish for the virus. Hope that they could figure out a way to play a contact sport in a time of mandatory social distancing. Hope for a vaccine to keep players healthy and seats full.
A strategy of hope isn’t much of a strategy"
“Ultimately, no one is playing football in the fall,” said a high-ranking college official. “It’s just a matter of how it unfolds. As soon one of the ‘autonomy five’ or Power Five conferences makes a decision, that’s going to end it.”
ESPN college football analyst and SEC media figurehead Paul Finebaum said he doesn't expect there to be a decision made on the season during Monday's important SEC gathering.
The ncaa needs to step in with some type of uniformity across the board, makes no sense to have 2 major conferences playing in the fall and everyone else playing spring ball with the expectation being everyone plays fall of 2021.
Why does there need to be action right now exactly? If they want to wait a few more weeks what difference does it make to you? Some of them are pursuing every angle possible in the hopes that maybe we can play. Will that happen? Probably not, but what’s the point of cancelling until you’ve left no stone unturned?
Kudos by the way on working smarter not harder on your daily info dump ( and i can’t emphasize that word enough). I’m glad it only takes you 5-10 minutes a day.
