Several conferences across college football are trudging forward with their attempt to put on a season this fall, while others have already called it off due to circumstances surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.
SEC teams like LSU are still set to play, but keeping the momentum going in the positive direction as long as COVID-19 is a constant worry won’t be easy.
NCAA president Mark Emmert and the association’s chief medical officer, Brian Hainline didn’t sugarcoat anything when they spoke on the issue this week.
“This is going to be difficult, to say the least, going forward,” Emmert said.
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Hainline had a similar tone — one that definitely causes reason for worry.
“I think we’re in a place that is exceptionally narrow,” he said. “The boundaries are … there’s not a lot of places to move one way or the other. Almost everything would have to be perfectly aligned to continue moving forward.”
These comments come shortly after leaders of the association’s Division II and Division III schools canceled their school’s NCAA fall sports championships.
Even though the outlook may not seem overwhelmingly positive, there is still a sense of hope that we’ll see college football this year.
“We’re all really hopeful that can be done,” Emmert said. “Obviously, everybody wants to have kids back on campus. Everybody wants fall sports to return. But we can’t do it unless we can find a way to do it with minimized risk for these young people.”
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