Texas Governor Greg Abbott Aiming for College Football to Start On Time
“if you want a prediction, my prediction is yes, we are gonna have college football beginning as scheduled”
This is good news for college football fans and for anyone longing for things to reopen.
The Texas Tribune reports:
Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is aiming to start college football on time, with fans in stands
Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday that Texas is working to have the college football season start on time, with at least some fans in attendance, as the state continues to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Abbott, speaking during a TV interview, said there are still a few factors that remain to be seen, such as stadium capacity, the availability of medical treatment for the virus and the overall status of the outbreak in Texas. Abbott said he expects to know more about those issues around mid-July.
Abbott noted that the athletics director for the University of Texas at Austin needs a decision by early August, and the state thinks it will be able to satisfy that timeline. The first UT game is scheduled for Sept. 5 in Austin against the University of South Florida.
“But if you want a prediction, my prediction is yes, we are gonna have college football beginning as scheduled … with at least some level of fans in stands,” Abbott said in the interview with KXAN-TV in Austin.
Abbott has already allowed certain professional sports events to resume in Texas starting May 31, though spectators are not permitted.
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Southeastern conference has voted to allow players back on campus to participate in voluntary activity. Of course summer work out is not really voluntary anyway.
IMO this is the preferred course. Players can be grouped into smaller units, isolated from the other groups, rotate through workout locations to maintain distancing and allowing for disinfection of the area between use.
Players can also be more closely monitored by medical staff etc.
College football is literally too big to fail. The revenues fund every other sport besides men’s basketball, a very few men’s baseball and even fewer women’s basketball team. Every other sport depends on football revenue.
No football= no revenue= no funding = no women’s sports = no way to comply with the title 9 provisions.
The PAC-12 should be interesting. UCLA & UC Berkeley are under hard Gavin control. Being in Garcetti’s LA may be a problem for USC too considering they use the government owned LA Coliseum.