College Football can not happen in space this year. And maybe not, we do not deserve

It’s never been easier to get kick-off, but with America tries a season of college football, in the midst of a global pandemic, looking more and more like a hope Ave Maria. Like so many things in America now get the player 19 COVID effort on the field, it is chaotic, it’s divisions and reflects poorly on the top leaders. More than all the other major team sports, college football is powered by state identity and tribal customs: in a particular case Saturday, the only visit the shores processed in places like State College, Pennsylvania;. College Station, Texas; or the Grove, about 10 acres in the center of University of Mississippi planted, can accommodate more than 50,000 revelers. The staff of the local economy, sports, and business will not be easily abandoned. also died during a health crisis in which more than 170,000 people in the United States, decision-makers are desperately trying to keep the deep-rooted cultural traditions, while a complex multi-billion sports-industrial protective baked dollars in higher education . But college football lacks coherent national leadership. Instead, each “Power 5” non-football you see the conference width by its bottom line, already experts COVID-19 outbreaks in Clemson, Kansas State, Rutgers they secured at the expense of unpaid players who have their health at great risk player and Oklahoma. Now, to leave them to themselves, the Pac-12 and Big Ten conferences schools like Stanford, UCLA, Northwestern and Maryland blue in the coastal states of the upper Midwest and skimmed decided to cancel their fall college football season. Meanwhile, schools in the South East, Big 12 and Atlantic Coast Conferences, which are mainly in the red states that one of the first re-opened (and saw a subsequent COVID-19 cases increase), it still says go and play football. Not everyone falls into ordinary. There are disagreements and mixed messaging to conferences and individual universities. back to use Ohio State University Quarter Justin again petitioned courts, the season has begun and is already collected more than 275,000 signatures. The University of Alabama, brought in $94.6 million in revenue during the academic year 2019, is one of the schools try their football team, the most anti-social distancing going to give to the sport, but his fans They do not seem out of their way out. On 16 August, a large group of people in Tuscaloosa-home of the Crimson Tide were spotted strung close together and without a mask, outside a bar. The athletic director of the school took to Twitter tsk tsk-young patrons. “If you want college sports? Obviously not these people !!,” wrote Alabama AD Greg Byrne. And on August 17 he announced the University of North Carolina who was positive for 130 students for COVID-19 school for remote commands returns. A few hours later, the athletic department has issued a statement the school he went on to say that training and practices. A campus was considered unsafe applies to students. But the “student-athletes” would apparently just fine. College football season lost carries devastating consequences. The sport often encourages all athletic departments: Alabama, football is 77% of the revenues of the federal data team. Cancel calcium could lead to cutting sports opportunities in other sports schools. Stanford has had, for example, was already 11 sports such as fencing, field hockey, in early July, the harsh financial realities of COVID-19 to under appeal. Expect more such decisions across the country. Unfortunately, Americans can only blame themselves and their leaders-for the disorder. States urged to quickly reopen is testing thus determined to be virtually useless and Americans continue to die at an alarming rate. While sporting Pro structures sit empty, Texas A & M University expected nor its stadium of 100,000-plus-seat for the 30% of capacity, despite the government to hit 10,000 COVID-19 recently dead, but a lot can happen in fill between now and the season opener, which is supposed to take place in a few weeks. On August 16, the top NCAA doctor said that without improvements evidence, “there is no way to get on with the sport.” It ‘was a wise philosopher Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle who said in July, “Sport as a reward for a functioning society.” For college football will provide the sins of spring and summer, a calm autumn. This looks 2020 issue of time in the 31 August.
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