NCAA sets up COVID-19 hotline for athletes, parents to report return-to-sport concerns

The NCAA has set up a new hotline for those concerned about COVID-19 guidelines to report their issues.

The NCAA has not had a strong approach when it comes to fall sports and specifically with football. The decisions have been left up to individual conferences and that has left players and coaches wondering if there was ever any NCAA plan, to begin with.

The Big 12, SEC and ACC are still playing this fall and the NCAA has finally responded with some sort of action. That comes in the form of a COVID-19 hotline that essentially sounds like the “snitch line” seen in the NBA bubble.

The COVID-19 hotline will allow students, athletes and parents, an opportunity to voice their safety concerns

This hotline is set up for athletes and parents to call in with COVID-19-related concerns. It also appears to be ripe for inevitable prank calls and general complaints from fans. Hopefully, this is a voicemail-only number.

This hotline is only a bit humorous because it comes at a time when most fall sports have been shutdown. Certain teams have folded altogether and the focus now is on a few FBS football conferences. That is who this hotline is for and there should not be too many complaints given the fight to get on the field this fall.

The NCAA is beginning to look more and more pointless with what has taken place since March. Conferences clearly hold the power and the players themselves are getting more courage to speak up and work together.

Never having to deal with a serious problem such as COVID-19 was great. Then real problems emerged much bigger than simply paying players and the reaction was to do nothing.

Now there is a hotline set up to report violations. That is vintage NCAA and fans should expect nothing less.

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