COVID-19 may be taking away another sports season from us. With concerns of the coronavirus spreading, many NCAA football leagues have decided to cancel their football season in the fall in hopes of having their season being played in the spring time. Leagues like the Big Ten, Pac 12, Moutain West, and others are some of the leagues that will not suiting up on the field this fall.
But there is some football leagues that have decided to continue on with the fall season, but shortening the games. Leagues like the Big 12, SEC, Sun Belt were motivated to continue on with the fall football season, so their student-athletes can have the opportunity to suit up and get the chance to play. But even though some of the leagues are going to continue on with their season, but it does not mean that the season will happen.
I feel like some of these leagues are going to fall into the peer pressure of cancelling the season if there is an outbreak on the university campus or football season. Which I personally think it will be dumb if they decide to cancel the season. Because here is the thing, if college students can return to campus, they can play their fall sports season.
Like I don’t see the problem with having no fans at college football games and still being able to have the season. Every single sports league is doing it, why can’t college sports do the same thing? If the college football athletes don’t want to play, because they are concerned then they don’t have to play. Just like how they get the choice if they want to play sports in college.
There is Division I athletes that want to play because one, they may be trying to make it to the NFL and they need to play this season to help their draft stock, and two, this is something the athletes need right now. These past few months have just been awful with many people having to quarantine, stay home, and work from home. This is something good in the world that the athletes need and what the fans need.
The Coronavirus is not going away any time soon, and a vaccine for this virus may not come for a long time. We all thought this would go away for two weeks, that turned into a few months, into a possible year now. Life needs to go on. We can’t be constantly be living in fear about this virus. We can’t keep cancelling everything or staying home, because in the long run. Many leagues, universities, and businesses are going to lose a lot of money off of cancelling many things.
I also think that if you don’t have a college football season in the fall and move it to the spring, it is not going to work. There is going to be way too many sports going on at once, and for the athletes that are trying to try out for the NFL are not going to have time to get ready for the NFL draft and the season in about a month or two.
I think there should be a college football season this year, but many NCAA leagues are going to fall in the peer pressure and cancel the season. I think it would be dumb for them to cancel it, but it is the way the year 2020 is going and the way people think now because of this virus.
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