Just yesterday, Kentucky football head coach Mark Stoops told the media that the thought of college football season being pushed back due to the COVID-19 outbreak has crossed his mind and he is slightly concerned about the possibility.
“I am, but as you know I also try to stay in my lane as best possible. We’re going to continue to work and prepare to play that opening game. That’s where my mindset is. To say the it hasn’t crossed my mind or I don’t think about it, that’s a lie,” Stoops said on Friday afternoon’s teleconference.
This comes after one of the most prominent voices in all of college football, Kirk Herbstreit, said he’d be “shocked” if we have football of any kind this fall.
“I’ll be shocked if we have NFL football this fall, if we have college football. I’ll be so surprised if that happens,” Herbstreit said on ESPN Radio Thursday night. “Just because from what I understand, people that I listen to, you’re 12 to 18 months from a [coronavirus] vaccine. I don’t know how you let these guys go into locker rooms and let stadiums be filled up and how you can play ball. I just don’t know how you can do it with the optics of it.”
But what if I told you that the idea of pushing up the football season instead of back is being considered?
According to a report by Michael Smith of the Sports Business Journal, we could instead see college football moved up to July, August, and September as opposed to the cooler fall months when the coronavirus could hit once again.
“Amid a growing concern that the college football season could be pushed back, or even canceled, an alternative could come into play — moving the season up to July, August and September,” the report says. “Every other scenario has the season starting later in the fall, at a time when the coronavirus could be returning for another round of infections as the cool weather returns and a vaccine most likely unavailable until 2021. But staging an abbreviated college football season in the summer presents an opportunity to play games when the warm weather could help prevent the spread of the virus.”
Sports Business Journal reports – citing sources talked to this week – that this drastic move would depend on several factors, which include:
- Would campuses be open and able to properly staff games?
- Would media partners be receptive to such a radical idea? Given the pent-up demand for live events by then, perhaps so?
- Would fans turn out for football in the summer, especially with temperatures in the 90s? Would they even be permitted inside the stadium?
- Could athletic departments recoup some of the revenue they’ve lost by staging a summer season?
- How would a season work? It would almost have to be conference games only. Teams could start with a June mini-camp, July training camp and eight or nine games in August and September with no postseason.
With desperation kicking in to play this season and earn back revenue missed during the NCAA Tournament, the report claims schools could see a summer season as the “only way to play college football in 2020.”
Would this idea be one fans approve of?
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