FROM METRONEWS

 

Bob Bowlsby has heard the question. Frankly, it is the dominant question in all corners of collegiate athletics right now.

 

The trouble is, the question of whether or not the 2020 college football season will start on time involves so many variables that an answer is a long way off less than four months before games are scheduled to be played.

 

The Big 12 Conference commissioner has spent four decades as an administrator in college sports and he says the COVID-19 pandemic is unlike most issues that will have a defined beginning, middle and end.

 

“You really don’t see the end of it in sight,” Bowlsby said. “The virus is going to be around and with us for a while. We are going to have to learn to coexist.”

 

Bowlsby has been in communication with West Virginia state officials and WVU medical personnel. While the Big 12 office, school presidents and athletic directors are assessing various scenarios for what the 2020 football season could look like, ultimately the Big 12 may not have the final call on how to proceed.

 

“In the end, it is going to be governor’s offices and public health officials that tell university leaders that it is safe to come back.

 

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