Everything About College Football During the Pandemic

Unlike the NFL which will have its fans see at least some football back in their lives, college football is going through pretty rough times during the pandemic. The 2020 season for college football has been a struggle for its fans, players & their families. In the wake of the COVID-19, most conferences have stopped playing before they could even start the season including PAC-12 & Big Ten.

How is the NFL dealing with the pandemic?

While the NFL will also not have any real game until September 10, it definitely will have its fan experience a couple of interesting games afterward. Unlike college football, the NFL is expected to begin the season on time. Every team through the league has taken responsibility and is following all the precautionary measures as required. The team is all wary of the precautionary measures & how they must deal with it being a part of the team.

There is no name in the reserve/COVID-19 list for any kind of exposure to any person who has been COVID infected or tested positive. This has started after almost 70 players have withdrawn from the NFL season because of the growing risk of the pandemic.

Everyone including the players is doing whatever could be done to keep the environment safe & participants healthy. Many of them also have completely isolated themselves from their families for safety purposes. They are not going anywhere without putting on their masks irrespective of the irritability it may be causing them.

Why has College Football not been able to implement such successful plans?

It is unfortunate that the arrangements & the precautionary measures have not all been similar when it comes to Football at the lower level. Many of the conferences at the lower level have been imbibing a similar approach — the players have avoided attending parties, meeting other students, and doing anything that was important to avoid the spread of the deadly virus. But, of course, there were some that were not seriously made to these precautionary measures.

The college football players did everything that the NFL players did to keep themselves & the team safe. But, today, they see the NFL ready to hit the ground, but the college players can’t. The kind of frustration & demotivation they might be experiencing right now is absolutely unimaginable. Their aspirations have been almost shattered — with the kind of message this whole episode has come with.

The leaders at the upper level & the machinery that governs college football must take responsibility for this. They are the ones to be blamed. Many of them already knew that this is going to be a fanciful hope or scheme to function during a pandemic like this. They knew there could be real logistical challenges, and much more. Despite the knowledge about the challenge that the pandemic may create, they continued with their hopeful rhetoric that if we followed the other sports leagues, it might be possible to play some games. This has not been an appreciable approach on part of the NCAA, college & the sports network.

Players lashing Out Demanding to play.

Pulling the rug out from these players who have been doing what they were asked to do is unacceptable at this time. For them it is devastating, frustrating — one could imagine what could have been the psyche of these young ambitious players. They are feeling as if they have been dumped & ditched — jumping all across when they were asked to, without knowing that when they will wish to jump higher they will be brought back to the level it started.

For all these months players have been completely living on hope and have been relentlessly doing everything they were asked to. But, that hope has now been completely taken away, extinguished and these young men have been left all disappointed. That is why some players like QB Justin Fields have been showing their disappointment and lashing out at the organizers. They are demanding to play & no one can blame them for that. They cannot go to the movies, cannot run the treadmills, cannot go out & with all that they have nothing else to do.

They are looking at their colleagues working it out through the pandemic. COVID-19 is nothing more than some kind of bad cold for these young disciplined men. And, above that, they have been taking all the precautionary measures. That is why their lens to the pandemic shows an altogether different picture. Who to blame for all this that has happened?