No college football this fall? The drumbeat for such a possibility grows louder by the day.
In the midst of the growing coronavirus pandemic, Mack Brown earlier this week expressed concern about whether or not the college football season would be played as scheduled. Whether it would be a partial season. Or no season at all.
“There is a fear of ‘would we have a season?’ ‘Would we have a partial season?’ ‘What does a partial season mean,’” North Carolina head coach said. “There is a great concern because of the remedy that comes in with football.
“The biggest problem is you’re not sure when it ends, and we can’t get those answers at this point.”
Compared to one prominent college football personality, Brown is downright optimistic.
During a radio interview Thursday night, Kirk Herbstreit was asked about the prospects of teams taking the fall this season. According to the ESPN television personality, he would be “shocked” if it happened.
“I’ll be shocked if we have NFL football this fall, if we have college football. I’ll be so surprised if that happens,” Herbstreit stated, by way of TMZ.com.
“Just because from what I understand, people that I listen to, you’re 12 to 18 months from a [coronavirus] vaccine. I don’t know how you let these guys go into locker rooms and let stadiums be filled up and how you can play ball. I just don’t know how you can do it with the optics of it.”
Because of the cancellation of March Madness, schools saw their revenue distribution from the NCAA drastically diminished. That is expected to take a heavy toll on non-FBS schools. If the college football season were to be canceled? That would severely impact FBS schools, especially those in the Group of Five.