Many fans have been looking forward to the football season for 2020 but we may not be getting the season we are used to. The world-wide pandemic of COVID-19 has brought devastation to many people in countless amounts of ways. Although for college students it has taken the largest toll by having to finish the semester online and graduate virtually. The saddest of them all is what student athletes have endured. Texas State football had a chance to finish their season, but our Basketball team was doing tremendous and facing a chance In the NCAA sweet 16 tournament. Many seniors in various sports had their season cut short and not a chance to touch the field court or water just one more time.
NCAA has made it clear that if all schools are not back to normal come fall there will be no sports played no matter what it is. Not only does this affect the current athletes but it hurts the high school seniors who committed to play a sport at school. With no sports as a possibility it may happen that the students that are on scholarship receive no money for school and for some it is the only way they are able to attend college. Just alone is has been documented that University of Texas at Austin brings in on average 20 million each weekend that a game is played in their stadiums. When it comes time to look at these numbers it shows that if there are no sports many schools will not be able to maintain the “lifestyle” that faculty and students are accustomed to. It would be a very a sad situation to not see football, volleyball and even golf not being played but it is up to officials to decide the safety of campus and what it can provide to its students before an official decision can be made.
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