Impact of Coronavirus outbreak on college football (03/13)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Breaking down how spring practice and recruiting have been impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak. First, where schools and conferences stand in terms of restrictions and limitations as of Friday morning (4:30) and how those restrictions will have a major impact on the player evaluation aspect of recruiting (10:50). Then, how the spring practice calendar might be adjusted (16:30), what coaches are going to do with their free time (18:45) and more ways college football will be impacted over the coming weeks and months.
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the Cover 3 Podcast with your host, Chip Patterson and Barton Simmons. |
| 0:37.0 | It's your call for the best college football coverage from National Signing Day to the National Championship. |
| 0:45.0 | And everything in between CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 Podcast. |
| 0:52.0 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 Podcast here on CBS Sports. That's Barton Simmons, that's Tom Fernelli. |
| 0:59.0 | We are joining you here on a Friday morning amidst strange times within the sports landscape, not just the college sports landscape, |
| 1:08.0 | but really all of sports in the United States as the COVID-19 outbreak continues to have its impact on sports and on our sort of daily lives and our rhythms and our routines. |
| 1:20.0 | It's been a busy week all across the board. The NCAA men's and women's basketball tournament has been canceled. |
| 1:27.0 | The NBA has been suspended. We believe it will be for 30 days, but we don't know that for sure. |
| 1:33.0 | And the professional leagues are all pushing things back a little bit. |
| 1:37.0 | We're going to get into the college football aspect of this here in the show and let you know what to expect from the Cover 3 Podcast. |
| 1:44.0 | Because guess what? We're not slowing down. We can be all in our home offices and still deliver you this glorious content. |
| 1:51.0 | So mailbag episodes, you know, any kind of hypotheticals that you've been offering in the mailbag about what Barton, Tom and Chip would be like if we all got sent off into a cabin into the woods who gets lost first. |
| 2:05.0 | Remember it is Barton looking for a cell phone signal to answer the phone. |
| 2:10.0 | We'll answer all those. So gentlemen, how are we doing here on this Friday? |
| 2:15.0 | Feel lost. |
| 2:18.0 | I did wake up and check for the scores of the late night conference tournament games. |
| 2:27.0 | I had the moment last night I was watching TV with Lynn and you know she got like a phone call that she had to take. |
| 2:35.0 | So normally when that kind of thing happens, I grabbed the remote, I pressed that one button on it that shows you like the live scores of whatever games are going on. |
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