A year ago the sports world and life as we knew it changed. The coronavirus caused the Big 12 Conference tournament, NCAA Tournament, and all of the spring sports to be canceled. Heading into the college football season a lot of modifications had to be made. The season was cut down to a 10-game schedule with just one nonconference schedule. On top of that players had to be tested for COVID-19 three times a week.
Fast forward one year and there is a possibility that the attendance restrictions could be lessened for the upcoming season. The Big 12 Commissioner spoke about that very possibility.
“If we continue to make the kind of progress that we’re making right now on testing and on vaccinations, I think it’s not unreasonable to see a fall that could have the reduced attendance restrictions lifted. I think Dr. (Anthony) Fauci said that and I think others have said that’s not an unreasonable expectation, but it’s going to be a matter of what happens between now and then. If we backslide or the variants turn out to be more difficult than they have been so far, who knows?
“I don’t think there’s any metric to forecast that, but based on some of the scientific leadership we’ve heard from around the country, there seems to be some possibility that could be the case.” – 247Sports report on Bob Bowlsby’s comments
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