Alabama head coach Nick Saban joined Charles Barkley and Ernie Johnson on the “The Steam Room” where he shared his take on college football season being played this fall, as well as his thoughts on the coronavirus.
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“I know it’s everyone’s goal to try to have a football season that starts when it’s supposed to start, like Labor Day weekend, and have as normal a schedule as possible and as normal a playoff situation as possible, but I don’t know if that’s going to be realistic or not.
I’m hopeful. I’m hopeful for the players. There’s a lot of players on your team that are looking forward to this season so that maybe they can enhance their value and have an opportunity to play at the next level. There’s a lot of guys that would like to have a chance to win a championship, SEC championship, whatever, aight, and they’ve worked hard to try to do that, and if they can’t play a normal season, that’s the thing that would bother me the most.”
The same thing with the players and participants who missed all the spring sports, whether it was the golf team, the baseball team, the softball team, whatever. You hate it for the participants who worked so hard to have that opportunity and now it’s taken away from them through no fault of their own. That’s a situation that I hope we don’t have to endure in the fall, so I’m very hopeful that we’ll be able to play football in some capacity.”
This comes after the NCAA and SEC both announced this week that starting in June, sports can once again practice. On Friday, the SEC made the decision that division I student-athletes in all sports will be permitted to participate in voluntary athletics activities beginning June 1.
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