I would think having the athletes working in their normal routine, supervised by the coaches would create less risk than returning them to regular student venue. They all want to play, or prepare for spring ball in the case of the football team. Peer pressure would help the players behave responsibly and be careful in their activities.
In December I came across an article that stated there had not been one documented case of COVID transmission on the football field. I meant to link to that article and now I can't find it again.
So all those bitter hysterical articles over the summer on how school athletics departments were sacrificing players safety because of greed were flatly wrong. If there had been on the field transmission, we could be sure the media would be trumpeting it to the high heavens.
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Meanwhile, EA Sports may be bring back College Football. Hopefully, UMass will have the brains to allow the Minutemen to be included.
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