Will the coronavirus shut down college football like it has every other major college and professional sports season? Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey is optimistic there will be kickoffs this fall, he said Wednesday.
But he cautioned his hope with reality. Just a week ago he expected the SEC basketball tournament to unfold without a hitch in Nashville, Tenn.
Sankey opened Wednesday's media conference call with three important but sobering words that have come to define the nation's grasp on the coronavirus and its impact on the sports world: "'I don't know'" is a perfectly acceptable answer, and we have an obligation to figure out what those answers will be moving forward," Sankey said. "We're in one of those circumstances in life where there may be more, 'I don't knows,' than 'I know,' how something will play out."
