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Opinion: Shaming students won't make college football any more possible this fall

We have reached the inevitable point of the pandemic where photographs of college kids returning to campus and acting like college kids are being treated on social media as if each sorority party or bar gathering is chipping away at the viability of the football season.

Football players at a variety of SEC schools have tweeted pictures of their fellow students along with expressions like SMH (that’s Shaking My Head for us olds). Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin said Monday all the evidence you needed to understand how difficult it would be for players to avoid COVID-19 would be a drive through downtown Oxford, Mississippi.