College football is more powerful than any politician, including Trump.
Unless people start dropping dead in the stands, its going to happen.
I want college sports back and football in particular just like everyone else, but I disagree on fans attending. I have a son in college and a nephew that will be a freshman this year both at P5 schools. I don't want them attending sporting events.
First of all, we live in a new reality. We don't have a vaccine and people are acting like the virus is dead. Watching tv seeing foolish people not wearing masks as they rush to congregate together pre Covid-19. People are jeopardizing all the gains we've made. We are not even prepared to reopen though many states have. And those that did open,
NONE followed the federal guidelines for reopening.
Secondly, Getting PPE is still a problem. It's not readily available. We don't have US manufacturing in place. Testing is still a problem. Not enough of it and the supply chain is still an issue.
Lastly, We have 1.5 million Covid-19 cases in 4 month while we were shut down for 2 of them. So, from my point of view, all we're doing moving forward is giving the virus a head start for a new wave of outbreaks. Instead of starting at zero, the virus is starting with hundreds of thousands of new active cases for the next wave. We've done little to prevent the next wave. How are states going to stop the next wave? People are not wearing masks. Massive testing in place? NO. Limited testing equals low contact tracing if it's in place at all? Limited contract tracing means limited isolation resulting in exponential virus outbreaks.
States can order no fans. Even if they did allow fans, Universities can say no.
I think the decision on college fans won't come for a few months as we see how the country is doing after reopening the economy. I'm just not optimistic that fans will be allowed in the stands. We be lucky to have college sports at all this year. The way I look at it is getting some money (tv) is better than no money.
We could have some normality if our citizens and our government got their **** together and do the things necessary to have that normality.