The Southeastern Conference is advancing and plans to play football at school this fall.
But if the other FBS meetings follow the example of MAC and Mountain West by canceling the fall season due to the coronavirus pandemic, sec is unlikely to play a season alone, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in an appearance on The Dan Patrick Show. Tuesday.
“I don’t think it’s the right direction, really,” Sankey said when asked if the SEC would be comfortable as the only convention to play football this fall. “Could we? Certainly. There’s a difference between you can do anything and do anything in life.”
“We have created our program with our own fitness protocols; we could, if that’s the case, paint on our own. I’m not sure that’s the smartest address.”
To that end, Sankey has minimized reports that the SEC is taking flight systems from other meetings that can simply cancel fall football. Since Sunday, several reports recommend that Big Ten and Pac-12 are about to take this resolution with meetings between league presidents scheduled for Tuesday.
“There are probably a number of legal and contractual means, I can go through the list of reasons why it’s not practical,” Sankey said. “That would be my reaction to avoiding any claims of unlawful interference on Dan Patrick’s show Tuesday morning.”
Patrick reported Monday that Big Ten and Pac-12 would announce formal cancellations of the fall season on Tuesday, however, he said Tuesday after a day of public reaction from players, the more sensitive coaches and politicians than those leagues now contemplate delaying their decisions. Patrick reported On Monday that the CCA and the big 12 “are on the fence” on how to continue and the SEC expected a delay in ranked ads from other leagues to see if one or more would register to play this fall. .
Sankey joked about being distracted by press alerts about Patrick’s report Monday at an assembly with SEC’s athletic directors, but declined to speculate on resolutions at other conferences. He edited the SEC’s initial resolution to delay the opening of the game until September 26 and delay the start of pre-season practice until August 17, as his league faces the same time constraints for a resolution as others.
Sankey said the SEC’s health counseling organization remained protected from existing summer education plans.
“If this board changed, it would be a point of prevention,” Sankey said. “The signs are that we can now do what we do in a healthy way.”
When asked what he would say to school football enthusiasts concerned that the season is on the brink of collapse, Sankey first highlighted the steps each and every fan can take to avoid slowing the spread of COVID-19 by dressing up in facial blankets and practicing social estrangement.
“I’ll stay in the brain that we haven’t made any final decisions, there’s still time, but we’ve set a start date,” Sankey said. “I’d be encouraged by this if I’m a football fan at school. We’ve announced opponents. I’d cheer me up with that. We have health care guidelines. That’s encouraging. We’re still here today. Sunday was if I read social media, but we’re still here.”