Jiffy Jeff wrote:

I just don't see any way that the CFB season will happen (as well as CBB and March Madness).  No certain way to contain these players/staff/coaches in their own bubbles, especially with extensive traveling involved and a handful or fewer of college kids who will make dumb college kid decisions...  NBA players inside their bubble already testing positive and no doubt the NFL will have this happen as well.

IMO, best bet is to shutter all college sports for the academic '20-'21 calendar, simply allow for student athletes to focus on the student part along with their classmates while everyone works ourselves back towards normal once the eventual breakthrough occurs in the fight against the virus.  

Need the Counterpoint to my Point, but please do not call me an ignorant slut...

Unfortunately, I think you're right and the ethical choice is to postpone the season and hope for a safer situation to come back to next year. However, for the sake of argument and to play devil's advocate and make an argument for playing. 

While the number of positive cases are going up across the country the mortality rate is going down. College athletes are much less likely to have bad cases and new experimental treatments are showing progress. Let's face it that the act of playing football is unsafe in it's own right. Life comes with risks and dangers. Cars are very dangerous and have killed many athletes, yet we still let them take the risk. If you cancel sports athletes might be at more risk of catching the virus by simply socializing like their peers appear to be doing right now. By having structure and testing the safety might not be that bad. An effective vaccination may or may not come and we can't just stop life as we know it. 

There's some truth to that, but running the season put's a lot of people at a great danger. What are you going to do when players start testing positive on a team? Testing seems to have false negatives, which is problematic. We're not talking about a pro league in a bubble and academic institutions have a responsibility to keep students safe. Some player is bound to have a bad reaction if not a fatal one. What if a positive player passes it on to a family member? A number of coaches and personal are in the high risk category. The other alarming thing is that COVID is having weird sorts of lasting side effects that we don't even understand yet. I read that Rudy Gobert still can't smell and has other problems despite never having serious complications. Vaccines are looking promising and could be available early next year. The ethical decision is to wait it out this year and keep everyone safe. It really stinks though.

Jiffy Jeff...

It is all good and at this point I think more is trending towards the season not happening than happening.

Plus if it is any consolation, nobody commenting here could ever, even on a bad day, post comments worse than the content(articles and comments) on FishDuck and its arrogant moderator.  After 5 consecutive days beginning on July 9th with silly articles written as if nothing was going on(Stanford eliminating sports, the Big Ten and Pac-12 decisions, etc.), FD made an attempt to enter the arena of whether college football could happen in a few months and it was all a lousy attempt at trying to bring humor to the whole situation. The writer, with "guidance" from the arrogant moderator thought trying to be funny was the way to address what is happening. That is what fanboy websites do because they do not have the talent, research skills and understanding of the issues to produce relevant content. 

Well, there's really not any major news yet, but the season is approaching fast. Nothing has been officially cancelled yet. Personally I"m pretty bummed at the prospect of not playing any football whatsoever. Ken Goe certainly doesn't seem very optimistic at this point. He brings up the MSU team that's in a 2 week quarantine and how is season suppose to happen with players testing positive and going into quarantine. I'm posting a fans take from the let's have the season perspective. He starts mumbling and rambling a little bit at the end and appears to be a couple beers in while filming on vacation. You can sense his desperation and anxiety over the prospect of not having football this year. Perhaps something we can all relate too. Anyhow, I hope everyone is doing well and at least enjoying the summer weather. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYmUY5REzyc