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From what I have heard by irish2x

Much of what could be decided last minute with regards to football may depend on how MLB and NBA do with their July restarts. It's two very different case studies. The NBA, where players are in close proximity the entire time, with its bubble approach. And MLB, where players are much more separated during play, with its fanless approach.

I had numerous "conversations" with NBA officials in April and May about the restart and the sense I got was that no one wanted to be the first to come back. They wanted baseball to do something before them. But the leagues are watching each other closely for obvious reasons.

For college football, they suffer the NBA problem--living in a bubble. Try as many schools do to segregate athletes from the student body, there is still interaction and you have students arriving from all corners of a state or the country at some colleges. Again, like NBA players. If the ripple effect continues, college football will have a huge quagmire as they will want to play, but trotting unpaid players out there to play in the midst of a resurgence of the virus will demonstrate that the entire thing is about money (which we know it is), but putting unpaid athletes in greater harm's way just for money, especially when other students may be taking classes remotely to protect themselves, could create massive legal challenges, especially at a time in America where people are reexamining our institutions with much more cynicism and activism than ever before.