If UT goes online classes only this Fall, is there any way at all to justify a football season? I’m thinking no.
Just feels like one college sometime this summer will make the call to go ahead and do online only. And then the dominos will start falling and eventually there will be too much pressure on the schools wanting to do things normally. Can’t see forcing all these unpaid students to get together and practice every day if you’ve already deemed classroom sessions too dangerous.
So if the season is cancelled, I would think the NCAA would have to increase the number of players on a roster for 2021 because you'll have a class of recruits coming in and seniors that have a yr left of eligibility.
Yes - you would have to change rules around scholarship limits I would think. The only way they play is if we have RELIABLE antibody testing (so you can rule out continued testing for those players) and RELIABLE rapid response CV testing that could be used at EVERY school basically to ensure that players are healthy, not spreading it to each other, or to other teams. This probably has to happen every two days or so. And players are pulled if they get sick. If you can't do something like that, then you probably can't play. It isn't necessarily that the risk posed to them is so high you have to do that, but you can't ask them to practice/play and not provide a framework for why that isn't breaking the college's own rules. This would never work for the general population of the universities - but you MIGHT be able to make it work for the fall sports. Would they be willing to go to those measures? I don't know.
It seems like the danger posed would be exactly the sort of thing to decisively tip the scales in the athletes’ favor for the ongoing to pay or not to pay debates.
people should be able to make that choice, imo, when you look at all the info we have right now. People die in wrecks on the way to and after games, but we dont prohibit them from going or cancel them due to the risk, which is probably greater than dying from CV