Why there will be football.

[confucius say]

Doring may be right in that there is college football this fall. However, if the covid spreads like crazy among players......money won't be a factor. It will be shut down.

I fully expect school and football to start and both shut down by October.

Don't be mad Clay.

Have any players who have tested positive been symptomatic? Any hospitalized? Why on earth would we shut down a billions dollar industry because players who want to play contracted the virus and are asymptomatic?

[Walkerhill]

Have any players who have tested positive been symptomatic? Any hospitalized? Why on earth would we shut down a billions dollar industry because players who want to play contracted the virus and are asymptomatic?

That is the worst case outcome. A stunted season and a lost year.

College football cannot work in the current moment.

The US pro soccer league tried a restart by isolating and testing the players and then keeping them in a bubble playing games with tv only, no fans at the Orlando complex.

Two teams had to withdraw so far. They do not touch a common ball with their hands, soccer is more spread out than football and most importantly the players were isolated (as opposed to the players attending classes and embedding in the student population on campus). It did not work. NBA will have similar problems unless they implement extreme quarantine measures that would be impossible for college football.

People thinking that in 2 months time, because big dollars are involved and/or college towns need the income, we are going to somehow get to a normal uninterrupted season played in front of fans are completely fooling themselves.

[Maroonthirteen]

Have any players who have tested positive been symptomatic? Any hospitalized? Why on earth would we shut down a billions dollar industry because players who want to play contracted the virus and are asymptomatic?

Oh I agree with you're saying. However my point is based on the fact of how the gov and decision makers have reacted over the last 4 months. Also my point is the gov and decision makers won't care about the athletic budgets and tv money. They'll close things in the name of safety.

As for MY thoughts on this whole issue of shutting down everything..... Ari Gold said it perfectly. However I'm not a GoV official or decision maker for athletics.

[SheltonChoked]

Have any players who have tested positive been symptomatic? Any hospitalized? Why on earth would we shut down a billions dollar industry because players who want to play contracted the virus and are asymptomatic?

Yeah because death is the only issue with COVID....

https://www.sciencealert.com/covid-1...s-and-delirium
https://www.healthline.com/health-ne...e-in-their-20s
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/scie...ver-body-swiss

And no way those players have older people in their families, they are all orphans...