There won’t be a safe vaccine before the season.
There may never be a vaccine.
Also, hopefully the likelihood of it spreading in open air stadiums is very low. I think it spreads mostly from close contact in confined buildings and public transportation.
Covid 19 may be here for a long time. We’re going to have to figure out how to live with it.
Students must be on campus for athletic events to be allowed....without the institution being active in the program, it becomes what the professional game would ultimately like to see, B, C, or D leagues of professional farm teams....
If students are allowed to live in the dorms and eat on campus, then there might not be a protection in socially distancing fans in the stadiums or in holding games without spectators, since the virus apparently thrives in congested group contacts....
Covid is here to stay....Chicken pox, measles, mumps, polio, typhoid, are all still with us and by various means we have learned to live with them...vaccination, of course, but the medical/science community has locked up development and application of any new vaccine to a 3-4 year period, and there is a sizable, and maybe growing, community of anti-vaxxers....Harvard medical faculty personnel have suggested social distancing will have to extend to 2022...
We could be seeing a nation-wide restructure of all athletics...college conferences may collapse to 6-8 geographically proximate teams and 4-5 geographically proximate non-conference games in order to reduce travel costs and eliminate flying personnel in closely confined transportation and in the process downsize the schedule to 10 games total....Downside would be to fill the schedule, P-5 teams would have to load up on UTEPs, UTSAs, UNTs, Rices, Lamars, Tulsas, etc....No marquee games on which to base rankings....Upside would be with three fewer games per year, an expanded post-season tournament would be possible....
The national climate is that there must be an eradication of the disease and not an acceptance of risking fatalities....
I wish there were a season this year, but I don't think it's likely....Renewing my seats, though....