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

That would be a first for the Valtrex spokesman.

 

Rotating seven day furloughs shouldn’t hurt that much.

 

I agree.

 

Forget the fall: It's time to start planning 2020 college football season in 2021

So I've seen this get panned a bit on social media as a dumb idea, but tell me, what other idea is there? College administrators have already said that football without fans will be a no-go. Schools are already going online only in the fall. Like many others, I don't see any scenario where we're up and running and ready to go by late August with fans in the stands. In January? Who knows?

The panning I'm seeing is how it will affect the rest of the 2021 calendar, recruiting and summer camps, etc., etc. People need to stop thinking in terms of "normal." Normal has left the barn and is so far gone that there's no catching it.

 

U. of Michigan projects the virus will cost it $1 billion in losses in 2020. That's not sports, that's everything. The right question might be will there be schools left to have sports in?

 

I didn't make myself clear. That's just U of M forecasting its own losses for the year.

 

University of Arizona president says he doesn't see football in the fall

Arizona president: 'Just don't see' football in fall

So it looks like the SEC and Big 12 are the only ones going to be playing football

 

Moving college football to the spring permanently solves a couple of the NFLs problems, since no XFL-type league could compete with this. Issue is college football would step directly on college basketball’s dick.

 

Everyone is going to be stepping on everyone's dick for the next year and a half. Everyone is going to have to get over it.

 

It shouldn't be an issue at all. The sports calendar has had built in glut months, April-May, September-October, for decades. Fans can cope.