Kirk Herbstreit say no football this year.

People will doubt that this could happen too

well I guess we have it if suckeye fan herbie says it, it must be true

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Says you can't play until there's a vaccine.

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Oh FFS

I have no idea what the reasoning is behind this stuff, and I'm pretty pro-lockdown for the near term.

I'm sure it would be a logistical pain to play without fans or limit fan #s, but I'd have to think programs would be happy to do that to avoid revenue losses?

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Kirk Herbstreit say no football this year.

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Did he cancel school as well

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I'm sure it would be a logistical pain to play without fans or limit fan #s, but I'd have to think programs would be happy to do that to avoid revenue losses?

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I think the big issue is that even without fans there would be 100s of people at the events. Between two teams that have over 100 players and staff, and all the different crews that are required to be there to televise it. I don't think they would have to cancel the season, but I can see a very real scenario where it is cancelled. You also have to factor in things like conditioning. It's not safe to have players quarantined and then go out and play high level football. Who knows at this point. I think that if this thing is bad enough in September to cancel football, then we probably have big problems.

While a vaccine seems like it’d be necessary before you can open stadiums to fans, I think from a playing perspective the bigger concern is at what point does lack of off season conditioning present a health concern to players? If optimistically speaking they start letting people back into campuses in July, does 2 months give enough time from a sports medicine standpoint for guys to acclimate to both the heat and the physical strain?

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I'm sure it would be a logistical pain to play without fans or limit fan #s, but I'd have to think programs would be happy to do that to avoid revenue losses?

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But what happens if the Universities aren't open for fall classes? Auburn is already saying summer classes will be virtual. Do you bring the athletes back and have them just focus on football and quarantine them together in one dorm and not let any of the live off campus?

If the schools are open for fall classes, do you make the players do all on line coursework so they aren't exposed to the other students? Do you quarantine them to one dorm? If so, what do you do with the other students who would normally live in that dorm?

In the end, Herbie doesn’t know, but there’s a 50/50 chance he’s right.

Yeah, this is a nightmare on a number of levels of it happens. What do you do about scholarships? What about incoming classes versus seniors that never got to play their final year? What about scheduled games? Do Bama and UGA, for example, just not play the 2020 game and everyone moves onto 2021 schedules? What about neutral site games?

None of that is reason enough to forge ahead into an unsafe circumstance but there would be a TON of fall out both direct and indirect

Things that will be different in a couple of months, much less September/August:

- Herd immunity will be much higher
- Warm weather will help us out
- Testing will outpace demand
- Antibody testing will help us prioritize risk
- There will be plenty of ventilators and PPE for hospitals
- There will be very effective antiviral treatments available for critically ill, which will reduce deaths

Just watch. By the end of May, we're going to be in great shape as a nation.