What would a daily Jumbo Package be without some Covid/football arguing?
College sports found itself in the middle of a sensitive, highly politicized debate. It became increasingly difficult to strike the right balance between optimism and pessimism when diving into the complicated topic. Go too optimistic like Swinney and you get crushed for prioritizing sports over health. Go too negative like Herbstreit and your credentials are attacked as hordes of detractors on Twitter insist it’s “nothing more than the flu.” It caused some athletic directors to stick to the sidelines and avoid any public speculation, viewing it as a losing proposition to weigh in at all.