College Football's Winding Path for 2020

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🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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College football faces a unique challenge to return. With hundreds of schools and thousands of players, there's no centralized "bubble" possible or even any centralized guidelines or decisions. At college programs throughout the country, schools are presenting players with waivers to sign that they accept the risks of training and playing amid the pandemic, while teams are seeing more and more positive tests for the coronavirus. Spencer Hall explains the variety of approaches and impacts we are seeing already, and how players are finding their voices on the return to play, just as they have in recent weeks around other social issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are several double-digit cases that I have heard of at major places that we are not being told about.
0:10.0	I think this is more widespread and maybe a larger volume of cases than people even realize within college football.
0:17.0	I know of at least one school where the head coach had to have a Zoom meeting with his team to try to calm everyone down because it's getting rather chaotic.
0:24.6	I'm getting much more of a sense of concern from some of the players that I'm talking to that wasn't there even a couple of weeks ago.
0:32.6	Every AD is saying the right thing, but do they really believe it?
0:35.6	Some of the ones I'm beginning to hear from really don't believe it any longer, although they're communicating it publicly. We're going
0:41.7	to play football, are we, though?
0:47.8	As college football programs call players back for training, more and more athletes are testing
0:53.4	positive for coronavirus.
0:55.4	21 at Clemson, at least 30 players quarantined at LSU,
1:00.0	and there's no standard playbook for what schools do next.
1:03.9	Today, how the road to college football's return got more complicated.
1:09.3	And why players have more power than ever before.
1:14.0	I'm Ena Kimes.
1:15.7	It's Thursday, June 24th.
1:18.0	This is ESPN Daily, presented by Marathon.
1:30.1	Hey, Spencer.
1:31.6	Hello, Mena.
1:35.2	Spencer Hall has covered college football for over 15 years.
1:37.0	Let's start here.
1:40.8	Last week, the NCAA released a plan.
1:43.5	I guess we're going to call it a plan for the college football season.
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