Will there be college football in 2020 or won’t there be?
Recently it has felt as if we’re headed to a world that will see the game played, even if it’s only played in a small percentage of fans in the stands. Re-arranging schedules and more details of plans for attending fans speak exactly to that.
The grand question in this all along though has been “what happens when a handful of players on a team get infected?”
Players at various schools who have contracted the virus have recently come to a light a bit, but Thursday brought news that five players at Alabama has tested positive for Coronavirus.
The NCAA voted to open campus facilities for football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball players on June 1 and the SEC presidents and chancellors gave the green light to allow voluntary in-person athletic activities to begin on their campuses again on June 8.
Source did not specify names, nor did I ask. Did say it was one lineman, a couple skill position players and one quarterback. @CBS_42
— Simone Eli (@SimoneEli_TV) June 4, 2020
What happens from here will be compelling in regards to the college football outlook this fall.
Say for example that a significant amount more of those 50 players who were working out together test positive for virus. Does that force the NCAA to then shut down such workouts from taking place?
With the NBA set to restart on July 31, the NHL recently announcing part of a plan to resume play and MLB being set to go aside from a labor disagreement, it’d appear we’re headed back to seeing live sports shortly.
But how will things be handled when an outbreak occurs, because if nothing else this happening at Alabama should open some eyes to the idea that an outbreak on a team is impossible to fully prevent.