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Let's just hope this doesn't happen. Worst case maybe we get lucky and just have a few games cancelled or push the start of the season out a few weeks. It's just way too early to speculate. No team has any kind of advantage over another team by missing Spring practice. I feel sure all the players are doing solo drills and working out as much as possible to keep in shape. Fall is my favorite season mostly due to college ball. If it doesn't happen I will be devastated as will millions of fans and thousands of players/staff. And how that would snowball going forward into next season remains to be seen.
From an overall CV perspective in the U.S., I am concerned we didn't take this seriously enough early (like China, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong did), and we still are barely touching the surface on true lockdown-type social restrictions nationwide. Planes are still flying domestically (and are required to continue to fly all normally scheduled routes even if the planes are empty as part of the stimulus package just passed), and people are still traveling on the interstates State-to-State. On Thursday, over 200,000 people still passed through U.S. airports. That means over 1 million people are still flying domestically every week. Is that a smart thing to continue? Every State is doing their own thing as far as restrictions. I guess time will tell how this whole thing ends up and when normal life is able to truly resume.
Reckless speculation? You’d think he was the president telling everyone to go back to normal before all public health experts said we should.
I'm going with Huckleberry on this one. A lot at stake with COVID-19. Family first....then football. It will get sorted out one way or the other as time reveals the truth of things. There is always hope!
If I didn't have to kill so much time during the day, I would gladly remove BA from the playlist after articles like this. He writes, "The answer to that is unclear, but it’s a safe bet that the decision shouldn’t be made by a sports broadcaster." BA, Herbstreit was not saying he should have the right to make the decision, he was simply offering his opinion on the situation, which is the same thing you do everyday about what high school sophomore wide receiver is going to lead UGA to a championship. Easy on the anger. Let's get outside our little bubble here and see that the world is going to be fine without football for a year and that is coming from someone who is wild about the dawgs and hopes there's a season but come on, we're talking about mass casualties here. Deep breath and a little perspective will age well, BA.
Sure hope that Herbie is wrong. It's true that a vaccine will not be available in time for the football season, but there is always the possibility of effective treatments being available by then. This remains a very fluid situation.
Best case scenario is that COVID-19 dissipates around the May timeframe and goes completely away. Worst case is that it makes a resurgence in the fall and come back with a vengeance. Here's the thing... no one knows.