Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

If there’s no vaccine, there’s no football. Period. Just too many people in one place, even if spectators are kept out of the building.

 

They need to build a university that the Coronavirus would be proud of.

 

If your university is insolvent without football, it's time to rethink your university.

 

“Coronavirus ain’t beat no one PAWWWWL. New York City ain’t had a team since Fordham and Toooolane ain’t shit.”

 

I just read that article and while college sports ADs and administrators catch a lot of deserved ridicule and criticism, the people quoted in this article came off as serious men grappling with the most serious issue they've ever faced in a good-faith manner. Light years away from Gundy and Dabo.

 

It's not a problem. It's just how our sports media culture works now. Dabo got jumped all over for what he said last week, too. He's not in charge! Coaches won't decide!

No, they won't decide. It's just a prominent guy saying a thing that was too optimistic for the doom monks. Same with Schefter's "carnage in the streets" line to the NFL having the temerity to zoom its Draft on time, as scheduled.

 

Throw MLB into the mix as well. Miss the game as much as everyone else, but do not want it back under that crazy Arizona plan.

 

I don’t know the next time that I will feel comfortable going to a sporting event or concert. And I’m sure that many people are going to feel that way for some time.

 

Coronavirus needs a multi-million dollar locker room and weight facility that has a slide from the second floor down to the first and $4,500 recliners that lay flat with Xboxes built into them to really compete. But don't pay coronavirus, it's an amateur after all.

 

It's an interesting story that probably is two weeks too early - we'll know a lot more by the end of April - but I loved this snippet:

Coaches fear the time away from that supervision will adversely impact less-driven players. “You’re telling me these kids have gone home and are eating like they’re eating with these nutritionists at the school? Come on,” says one coach.

Oh no! Eating outside a nutritionist's supervision?

It's a version of mission creep.

 

I'm okay with the Arizona plan. I'm not okay with seven-inning doubleheaders.

 

If the Doom Monks is still available as a band name, I’m on it. Great logo possibilities.