The spread of the coronavirus has robbed us of sports for well over a month and it's a legitimate concern that it'll take the 2020 College Football season away, too. University of Georgia President Jere Morehead, however, is optimistic about the prospect of the season taking place and doing so on time.
Morehead spoke with WGAU's Tim Bryant recently on the "Mission: Tim-Possible" podcast where he spoke in-depth about his thoughts on the subject.
"Our hope at this point, our expectation at this point is that we'll have a normal football season and be able to play all of our games," Morehead said. "We're certainly working toward that goal. I think as time goes by and we see the course of the pandemic, we'll have a better sense of when, for example, have football players back on campus. That's a key issue because the football players need to get into conditioning. They need to be involved in practice. We didn't have spring practice this year so at some point this summer, that will have to happen for us to have a normal football season."
That's certainly a breath of fresh air for fans who have seen a number of national writers and other conference or school administrators cast doubt as to whether the season would take place at all -- not to mention on time. As of right now, every school in the country is participating in distance learning with finals beginning in the coming days.
Due to the fact that campuses are void of students, and for good reason, there'll be no graduate commencements this spring. Instead, those who will earned their degree through spring semester coursework will have to wait until at least the fall before they can celebrate with their classmates.
Multiple schools in Alabama, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Texas have announced intention to start fall semester on classes. That's going to be necessary for football programs to get cranked back up.
Morehead was also asked about the idea of fans being able to attend games this fall where he struck a similar tone while also expressing the financial need for football to take place.
"Certainly our hope and expectation is that we'll have fans in the stands," Morehead We hope that we'll have our players here at some point during the month of July. We'll just have to see how the various developments related to COVID-19 affect that timeline but our commissioner is very focused on this issue. Of course all of the SEC presidents are meeting literally at least once a week to discuss this and many other athletic issues. One of the the things I have to emphasize is that even though Greg McGarity has done a great job of being very conservative in finances, which is now proving to have been absolutely critical, even a school like Georgia would be devastated by not having football season because football is the driver financially for all the other athletic programs that we have. It's also what brings this campus together, brings Bulldog Nation together. So I'm very optimistic, very hopeful that we'll have a full football season."
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