“We also check anyone who has symptoms and we have an open verification site where they can be examined as many times as they want or anytime they want,” Saban said. “But our boys are going to get [the virus] on the football field. They’re going to catch him on campus. The argument deserves to be then: “We deserve not to have a school.” That’s the argument. Why do we deserve it? “Do we deserve to play football?” Why did it become the argument?
Saban’s point is decent. Fears that players will contract the coronavirus stem from the blows they will pass and from the other people they would spend outdoors in football facilities and the lack of social distance and masked dresses would lead to those activities. This is not because football systems do not take many additional measures to ensure the protection of players when performing football-related activities. Pushing to cancel or postpone the school football season is a tacit admission that campuses and school cities are ripe for the spread of coronavirus with or without sport.
And the NCAA and its member schools have placed the property in a position where they cannot make even more ordinary efforts to organize football and other fall sports in the fall. A bubble situation similar to that of the NBA or NHL would not work because it would require schools to treat athletes very differently from other students. And schools have long argued that athletes are like other students.
Schools have also argued that athletes are amateurs for a long time too. Numerous FCS conferences have already said they won’t play fall sports this year and the NCAA’s Division II and Division III have said they won’t have fall sports championships. Those decisions were made for health and safety reasons and because they aren’t a huge source of revenue like major college football is.
College football is the game that brings maximum cash to schools and meetings and supports the budget of their games. Athletics departments work largely with the money provided through football. That’s why serious discussions about postponing the football season so far haven’t settled in Power Five meetings, the SEC is pleased to wait a little longer before making a resolution on its football season.
Commissioner Greg Sankey tweeted Monday that the convention would continue to wait to make a decision. The league had announced in the past that it would not begin its convention program until September 26 to see how coronavirus instances would evolve at the convention after academics return to campus.
The best recommendation I’ve won since COVID-19: “Be patient. Take the time to make decisions. All of this is new and you’ll get more data every day.” @SEC has been planned on each and every step from MarchArray .. back to slow educationArray.. 1st game to meet the beginning of the fall semester.
… Development of Array control protocols.. We know there are any considerations left. We’ve never had an FB season in a COVID-19 environment. Can we play? I don’t know. We haven’t stopped trying. We support, teach and care for students-athletes every day, and we will continue to do soArray … Every day.
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