Paul Finebaum on College Football's Road to Return

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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College football has a different path to return than pro sports. It's hard to say where hundreds of academic institutions with thousands of players will be in a few weeks, much less by autumn. The NCAA isn't like, say, the NFL or MLB in terms of its power or say-so over college sports. Paul Finebaum joins the show to discuss the many obstacles, options and high stakes for this college football season. Would players return, even if the general student body isn't back on campus? Would some conferences start, even if other teams remain under "safer at home" orders? What's the financial risk of a short season, or none at all? Then, European soccer correspondent Gab Marcotti weighs in on the return of Germany's Bundesliga. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Lincoln, $64,000 question hasn't changed from week to week.
0:06.6	I've got to ask it again, why are the chances we're going to have football?
0:11.3	All this talk of these schools wanting to bring players back on June 1st is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.
0:17.0	And so we've got to be patient.
0:19.6	We'll get one good shot at it to bring them back at the right time
0:23.6	when we're prepared and know as much about this as we possibly can.
0:29.8	That was Oklahoma head football coach Lincoln Riley at a virtual press conference,
0:34.9	blasting the idea that college football teams can hit the field in just a couple of
0:39.0	weeks. As the professional sports leagues begin to work towards a return, college football,
0:44.7	with its many provinces and amateur workforce, is still mired in uncertainty. Today, Paul Feinbaum
0:52.0	explains where things stand with the different conferences and what has to happen for a season to happen at all.
0:59.5	I'm Mina Kimes.
1:00.8	It's Tuesday, May 19th.
1:02.9	This is ESPN Daily, presented by Marathon.
1:09.0	Can't wait to hear about how my Washington Huskies are going to be screwed for the next 10 years.
1:15.0	Maybe just 4 or 5.
1:16.5	4 or 5.
1:17.2	It's no different from how things have been.
1:19.8	Paul Feinbaum has covered college sports for decades and is the host of the Paul Feinbaum show on ESPN Radio.
1:26.2	So, Paul, we have been talking about how MLB, NBA, NHL might come back,
1:32.1	and the college football season seems a ways off, but those conversations are already happening,
1:37.5	too, how it might happen, whether it might happen, whether it should happen. Now, I wanted to ask,
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