The Big 12, ACC and SEC are the three remaining conferences hoping to play college football this season. While they have decided to move forward, there are still obstacles left that could hinder a fall football season. Shortly after midnight on CNN the NCAA Chief Medical Officer Brian Hainline spoke about the outlook for college football.
Our colleagues at the Fighting Irish Wire laid out what Hainline said on air while the world was sleeping.
“The pathway to play sports is so exceedingly narrow right now. Everything would have to line up perfectly.”
“If testing stays as it is, there’s no way we could go forward with sports.”
Added the greater risk is regular students resocializing on campuses. Says that could be “the downfall” if schools can’t handle that.
As we have stated time and time again, the NCAA actually holds zero power or leverage over FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) or Division I as some refer to it. The power all lies in the hands of the conference commissioners like Greg Sankey (SEC) and Bob Bowlsby (Big 12). Clint Lamb of Roll Tide Wire recently tweeted about this happening.
From the second the Big Ten made its decision, I’ve been telling people to prepare for this.
The Big Ten, the Pac-12 and the NCAA are all going to be putting on the full court press to try and keep P5 football from happening. https://t.co/csMJYVO43C
— Clint Lamb (@ClintRLamb) August 16, 2020
Lamb isn’t the only one to say this as Barrett Sallee of CBS Sports also said that you should expect “sources” to try and wreck the season.
Expect a bunch of “sources” from Big Ten and Pac-12 country to do all that they can to make sure that the SEC, ACC and Big 12 don’t play football this fall.
— Barrett Sallee (@BarrettSallee) August 14, 2020
While the schools and conferences in the southern part of the United States are attempting to move forward with football, it seems everyone else wants to stop it. Maybe due to the fact that if a college football season is indeed played, they don’t want to look bad because they called it off to early.
This is always a fluid situation so stay tuned as we keep you updated.
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