Spring? Toast. Summer? Toast. Fall’s a maybe. Can we save August?
Privately, coaches whisper the same gloom to Matt McChesney that Kirk Herbstreit went on radio Friday with and said out loud. Given the coronavirus pandemic, football as we know it — the Broncos, CU, CSU, Mines, preps, everybody — is probably a coin flip to start on time.
“Even if we get football, it’s going to be so terrible,” mused McChesney, the former NFL and Buffs lineman and the owner of Six Zero Strength and Fitness in Centennial. “Think about all the guys who don’t have structure right now, how bad it gets for football players who come back after holding out or after an injury.