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North Carolina’s Mack Brown says college football coaches are afraid the season may be canceled

By Patrick Schmidt

ANNAPOLIS, MD - DECEMBER 27: Head Coach Mack Brown of the North Carolina Tar Heels watches the game against the Temple Owls in the Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on December 27, 2019 in Annapolis, Maryland. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images)
ANNAPOLIS, MD - DECEMBER 27: Head Coach Mack Brown of the North Carolina Tar Heels watches the game against the Temple Owls in the Military Bowl Presented by Northrop Grumman at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on December 27, 2019 in Annapolis, Maryland. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images) /
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North Carolina football coach Mack Brown says there’s a growing fear among college football coaches that the coronavirus pandemic may lead to the cancellation of the season.

The NCAA Tournament was canceled, spring sports and the College World Series was then canceled and it’s not out of the realm of possibilities that the college football season is canceled too.

That’s the fear among coaches, according to North Carolina Tar Heels coach Mack Brown who admits there is a lot of unknowns right now due to the ongoing concerns of the coronavirus pandemic.

The pandemic has led to several states issuing a shelter-in-place order that has closed all non-essential businesses. It’s unlike anything college athletics has ever faced with a national emergency and global pandemic on our soil.

Speaking on a teleconference, Brown admits coaches have no clue if we’ll have a season, if we’ll have a shortened season, if we’ll have games with or without fans and it’s leading to a lot of fear and concern.

“Coaches really have no clue,” Brown said of the 2020 season, via the Charlotte Observer. “There is a fear of ‘would we have a season?’ ‘Would we have a partial season?’ ‘What does a partial season mean?’ There is a great concern because of the remedy that comes in with football.”

College football coaches are already dealing with the reality of having spring football canceled and spring games canceled. Some programs got a head start on spring practice before the NCAA stepped in.

Students are adjusting to online classes and everyone else is adjusting to the new normal of potentially, maybe, not having a college football season this fall.

This is why coaches from Ed Orgeron to Tom Herman to Ryan Day have given PSA’s about the dangers of the coronavirus and the preventive measures people all need to take to make sure this is neutralized. The longer people disregard the mandates from the local and national governments and from the CDC and World Health Organization, the more it puts into jeopardy the college football season.

If you want the college football season to take place, don’t leave your hours, wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds and cough into your elbow.

Follow those steps and we’ll hopefully have the college football season go off uninterrupted with 100,000 fans in the stands. If not, it may be a long time before sports are back in all our lives.

After all, if the IOC can postpone the Olympics for a year, college football isn’t immune to cancellation either.

For more information about COVID-19, visit the CDC’s website or the website for your state’s Department of Health.

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