Just to make sure you haven’t heard enough about Covid-19 over the last few months, I wanted to ask the coaches and educators of the class what their thoughts are about the return to sports and school. Is it feasible to start the 2020-2021 school year like any other school year? In my case that would be opening up the high school doors to roughly 1,500 students. Will there be fall sports on any level, high school, college, or professional? A few days or weeks ago (who can really tell anymore) I was watching GetUp on ESPN and they were discussing college football and what it could look like this coming fall following the CDC guidelines. A reporter stated that if a player on a team tested positive for Covid-19, on lets say a Wednesday, the entire team would not be able to play on Saturday. If this is a policy the NCAA or the Power 5 conferences are going to put in place, what’s the point of the season? Are colleges going to be honest about all of their testing? Money tends to make people do some very immoral things, especially in college athletics.
Sports have been my entire life, and like most if not all of you, I miss the live action. But is this break from live sports all that bad? Is this what we needed to really appreciate what sports represent in our lives? We are all well aware that sports represent much more than entertainment, or an escape from our reality for a few hours. They unite us, motivate us, inspire us, and give us hope. This sports deprivation period, much like our technology deprivation experiment, will hopefully renew our childhood passion for games that can change the world!
Food for thought.
-Josh
Mach's Mind 