[pefloresjr]

I think players may be safer during a full blown season with lots of testing than without because it is essentially a full time job.  However, college football is a year round endeavor and even when the players are not allowed to receive official coaching, they are in often in daily contact with their trainers, their tutors, and others from the athletic department.  Adding robust testing and insistence on following safety protocols to that equation should make a non-football period just as safe or safer, especially if a school is primarily using distance learning.  I know robust testing is tough to get in this country but, if they can do it for a football season, they can do it without football.  Stanford graduate students are asking for increased testing and safety protocols already.  I think that Stanford and the PAC 12 should increase their own internal testing capacity and protocols for all students and staff to show leadership in this area rather than following along with the way things are usually done.  That sort of leadership is sorely missing in this crisis and the students are getting together to try to fill the void.  

Cheers,
Pete F.

[pefloresjr]

I think players may be safer during a full blown season with lots of testing than without because it is essentially a full time job.  However, college football is a year round endeavor and even when the players are not allowed to receive official coaching, they are in often in daily contact with their trainers, their tutors, and others from the athletic department.  Adding robust testing and insistence on following safety protocols to that equation should make a non-football period just as safe or safer, especially if a school is primarily using distance learning.  I know robust testing is tough to get in this country but, if they can do it for a football season, they can do it without football.  Stanford graduate students are asking for increased testing and safety protocols already.  I think that Stanford and the PAC 12 should increase their own internal testing capacity and protocols for all students and staff to show leadership in this area rather than following along with the way things are usually done.  That sort of leadership is sorely missing in this crisis and the students are getting together to try to fill the void.  

Cheers,
Pete F.