Opinion | Will Leitch: Why President Trump's college football tweets are the epitome of COVID-19 irony. - NBCNewsTHINK
Many assumed the Big 12, ACC and SEC would follow the example of the Pac-12 and Big Ten in canceling, but while that still could happen, the pressure from Trump, as well as many lawmakers, coaches, players and athletic administrators, caused them to pause. Or, put another way, it caused the conferences to put aside the health of the young men they control in order to concentrate on what was, first and foremost, best for short-term personal economic good.
The SEC, ACC and Big 12 certainly had plenty of pressure. College football is so powerful in this geographic area that two of governors, Mississippi’s Tate Reeves and Georgia’s Brian Kemp,as a reason for their citizens to wear a mask. It is telling that neither man could come up with a more alarming prospect to their voters than an autumn without college athletics.
On Monday, Trump tweeted that"the student-athletes have been working too hard for their season to be canceled." But the decision to keep unpaid college athletes still sweating and breathing heavily in locker rooms together shouldn’t be seen as a sign of generosity. Nor is it an example of stalwart stiff upper-lip stay-the-course-ness. Think of it more as aligned with states reopening public schools.
Like states’ early, reckless reopenings of their economies, college football’s plan — such that it is a plan — is unlikely to work. Just as several schools have already shut down because of coronavirus outbreaks, the postponement or cancellation of the last three conferences seems inevitable. The number of issues that must be resolved — about player safety, about scheduling, about universal protocols, about just about every aspect of all of this, actually — are massive.
would basically shut down the entire enterprise. And these are college students. An outbreak is inevitable.
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