The ACC has entered. The SEC has entered. The Big 10 may have been released.
Via SI.com’s Pat Forde, the Big 10 has informed its members that the league may not be playing football games this fall.
The decision on whether or not to start training camp on time is expected to be made within the next five days. Forde describes it as a “fluid situation”.
Frankly, it looks like the ACC and SEC have gone for a fucking torpedo approach, as the Big 10 moves more cautiously. College football in the current pandemic raises many questions regarding, for example, whether it is appropriate to add the risk of catching and / or transmitting the virus to family members to unpaid players and whether it is appropriate is appropriate to use test resources that could be used by local citizens.
Above the question of college football arises whether the traditional college model of in-person lessons and on-campus residency should even be continued in today’s climate, given that young people can easily find a voice. supposed plausible authority to endorse the egocentric YOLO / FOMO vibe that helped spread a virus that has killed over 150,000 Americans, and it’s not over yet.
