This is going to be VERY interesting going forward. There is SO much to consider here. That's why I put ZERO stock in these rumblings about the NCAA supposedly meeting right now to make a decision about the season. According to previous rumors and innuendo, this "decision" was "expected any day" four times now, LOL. Now, while it is true that basketball and baseball got the ax, the same can't be assumed for football. First off, naturally, all sports are different animals. Football stands alone. It is the money generator. It's how a lot of these smaller sports survive. This is nothing we don't already know. Basketball and baseball were the first casualties in this thing. But even they didn't go down without a fight. Other provisions were being considered. Conference and NCAA tournaments were going to be played sans fans. College baseball was going to hit the pause button and then try and resume in April or May, also sans fans. Then NBA players starting testing positive, and then old Goober or whatever his name was got up there and put his hands all over everything thinking it was cute. Pro sports seasons were then cancelled so of course, how could the NCAA even think about not following suit? All of those sports had one thing in common. It was their season, right at that moment. They were all staring down the barrel of several loaded rifles, so to speak. They were forced to make the decision, with zero margin for error.
As Cecil Hurt said in his article, football has time on it's side, a luxury that the other sports just did not have. Stating the very obvious here, but football isn't basketball or baseball. No, it's a WHOLE lot bigger. As bad as the loss of those other seasons is and will prove to be later, the loss of a football season would be unfathomable. That is why they will be taking their time with this. Even out of the biggest revenue generators, even out of the absolute biggest brand names out there (Bama, Texas, USC, Ohio State, Michigan, etc) not one of them can afford to lose an entire season. Let's not fool ourselves. Bama or Ohio State losing a football season would hurt no less than Akron or Coastal Carolina losing a season. They will look at EVERY possible scenario to get this thing played. And I mean EVERY. My .02 is, short of an Armageddon or Deep Impact type scenario (remember those movies? LOL) where an asteroid is headed our way, or the pandemic somehow takes a major turn for the worse (which would be akin to the aforementioned scenarios) then a season is somehow, some way happening. How? Well, that remains to be seen. It could be a delayed start, no fans, conference games only, no playoffs, no championships of any kind. But, I just can't see a total plug pulling, unless things take a horrifically bad turn for the worse. Synchronicity will be amongst the major hurdles. College football is a complex organism. It won't as simple as "ok everyone just move everything two months to the right". It's gonna be crazy, no matter how it proceeds.
