ACC Commissioner John Swofford addressed the media on Thursday after meeting with conference representatives. In his media address he outlined four scenarios in regards to both college football in 2020 and collegiate sports as a whole during the 2020-21 school year.
The Four Scenarios:
1. Football schedule played as currently scheduled
2. A shortened football season
3. No football but basketball is played as scheduled
4. No sports at all for the 2020-21 academic year
If you see scenarios three and four and get worried, Swofford was at least optimistic that neither would play out, saying “We are going into this year with the anticipation of playing at this point.”
“All of our institutions are indicating they intend to open in various fashions as we go into the fall.”
Swofford also noted that the ACC would most-likely be willing to proceed with the season even if some member schools aren’t ready or able to participate.
“I think probably so,” said the commissioner. “I don’t know what the threshold is on that. We haven’t really reached a point of having that discussion. I’m sure we will in due time as to whether it’s three-fourths or two-thirds or 50 percent or whatever it might be.
“But I don’t think some schools not being able to compete necessarily keeps a majority of the schools who could compete from competing. It’s premature to answer that question fully at this point.”
It’s nice to hear someone speaking and thinking positively but to me, it’s just more words at this point. I remain hopeful for the schedule to at least start on time but to think we know how things will even look three weeks from now, let alone three months, we’re kidding ourselves.