A staggering amount of college athletic directors expect the football season to be delayed.
According to a survey done by Stadium.com of FBS ADs around the country, “nearly” 75% of them expect the season to be delayed during the coronavirus pandemic. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)
As pointed out by Brett McMurphy, there was a single AD in April who thought the season wouldn’t happen. Now, there’s eight.
Nearly 3/4 of FBS ADs believe football season will be delayed & 36% say it will be only conference games in @Stadium’s survey of all 130 FBS ADs. In April only 1 AD said there wouldn’t be a season. This week 8 ADs predict no season in 2020-21 academic year https://t.co/PjX4C10Vft
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) July 9, 2020
I wish I could say that I’m surprised by these results, but sadly, I’m not. Hope is rapidly slipping away when it comes to the college football season happening as scheduled.
A month ago, everything seemed like it was going to be just fine. It looked like we were going to have a relatively normal season.
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Now, it looks like we’re on the brink of all hell breaking loose as teams cancel games, change venues and programs get hammered by coronavirus.
To say it’s bad would be a gigantic understatement. We passed the point of things being bad a couple weeks ago.
Now, we’re in full-on panic mode.
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We’ll see what happens over the course of the next couple weeks, but I’m not holding my breath for a normal fall.