Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s highest-ranking specialist in infectious diseases, made a statement on Thursday that tempered the expectations of football fans hoping for a fall season to proceed as usual.
“Unless players are essentially in a bubble — insulated from the community and they are tested nearly every day — it would be very hard to see how football is able to be played this fall,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN.
Football teams have far more players on their rosters, but if such a bubble-type setting was necessary for the sport’s return, it does not seem feasible for the NCAA.