[Leftcoast]

I bet we will see football played in empty or near empty stadiums and with lots of precautions and testing.

Sure there will be some risk to players but I bet it's a risk that almost every player will willingly accept.  To take Stanford's county as an example, the 21-30 year old group represents 0% of the deaths and 12% of the cases.  On top of that 94% of the deaths have an associated comorbidity that the players probably do not have (and if they do, by all means don't play.)

So, if you are an 18-22 year old who has spent your life preparing for college football do you want to sit the year out?  Skip a year of football that you will probably never regain?  I've talked to a lot of athletes who sat out the 1980 Olympics and none of them are happy about it.  Different causes surely but do not undersell the deep desire to play the sport you trained for and the unhappiness caused when someone else pulls that chance away - particularly if the stated reason is "for your own good".

[Leftcoast]

I bet we will see football played in empty or near empty stadiums and with lots of precautions and testing.

Sure there will be some risk to players but I bet it's a risk that almost every player will willingly accept.  To take Stanford's county as an example, the 21-30 year old group represents 0% of the deaths and 12% of the cases.  On top of that 94% of the deaths have an associated comorbidity that the players probably do not have (and if they do, by all means don't play.)

So, if you are an 18-22 year old who has spent your life preparing for college football do you want to sit the year out?  Skip a year of football that you will probably never regain?  I've talked to a lot of athletes who sat out the 1980 Olympics and none of them are happy about it.  Different causes surely but do not undersell the deep desire to play the sport you trained for and the unhappiness caused when someone else pulls that chance away - particularly if the stated reason is "for your own good".