With every passing day the U.S. practices self-quarantine and social distancing to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, the more uncertain the immediate future of sports in the country becomes. Some have speculated that sports can return by mid-summer, while others have predicted that there won’t be college football or NFL seasons in 2020.
The fact of the matter is simple: no one knows anything yet. President Donald Trump said last weekend that he believes fans will be able to return to stadiums and arenas by August or September. Although, that would need to satisfy the demands of public health officials before coming to fruition.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey was a guest on “The Paul Finebaum Show” on Wednesday where he covered a variety of topics related to the coronavirus crisis’ effects on college athletics.
Sankey had a succinct response to a question about when he believes college athletics will return to some sense of normalcy.
“The very direct, simple answer is the Dr. Fauci comment … ‘we’re not gonna determine the timeline, the virus will determine the timeline,’” Sankey said. “And you can see the developing information just knowing what we know about science, how rapidly knowledge can develop; there are still unknowns. We’re gonna rely exactly on our public health officials and the people around our campuses communities to guide us to return to what we’ve known as normal.”
Finebaum also asked Sankey if there was a deadline when a decision on whether a full college football season could happen.
“That is the type of information that we’re soliciting right now,” Sankey said. “Using our football coaches’ knowledge, we’re actually putting together a group and our last two presidents and chancellors call, we’ve asked for a combination of sports medicine focus leaders from our campuses, those who work in the epidemiology and disease area and our athletic trainers. So a combination of people who are experienced in these areas who have the right training.
“We’ll take the input from our coaching leaders … but we wanted to use the science information around the virus that’s being treated across the country and that’s guided how we’re living. When we understand more about those decision-making benchmarks, how do they inform our preparations. So people talk about six weeks or back to 10 weeks, I look at is as a range right now without looking at absolutes because there’s so much at the moment that’s not absolute.”
The loss of the 2020 college football season was on the minds of several fans when ESPN commentator Kirk Herbstreit said he’d be shocked if there were a season at all.
“I’ll be shocked if we have NFL football this fall, if we have college football,” Herbstreit said, via a TMZ transcript two weeks ago. “I’ll be so surprised if that happens.”
Ways to combat catching COVID-19 include self-quarantining from others, washing hands, avoiding hand to hand or physical contact with others. Coronavirus spreads between people in close contact with one another, typically within six feet, or through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Spread is still possible before people show symptoms, although that does not stand as the typical cause, according to the CDC.
According to Wednesday afternoon’s update, there are almost 400,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. and more than 12,000 deaths related to the illness.
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