In one of my snarkier moments, I thought about posting a reader poll asking folks to speculate on how many kids dying from the coronavirus they could tolerate if they got a full 2020 college football season in exchange, but decided against, mainly because I didn’t think I could stomach seeing the results.
So, I’m afraid you’ll have to settle for this.
Saag, a professor of medicine and the director of UAB’s Center for AIDs Research, wondered what happens if the No. 1 team in the country gets told it can’t play for two weeks after a player or collection of players tests positive. Do you adjust the schedule? Does that team have to forfeit those games and thus miss out on its chance at a national championship?
Those scenarios have been bandied about throughout the college athletics world. They’ve also prompted concerns about the lengths some could take to keep football going even in the face of a pandemic. One Power 5 administrator openly speculated that teams might not be upfront about positive tests if it meant an automatic shutdown. “You better hope no school is covering things up,” the administrator told AL.com but they couldn’t help but be skeptical that a win-at-all-costs program would really shut it all down for a third-string punter.
Shit, of course that’s gonna happen. My question to you is, which coach goes there first?