The NCAA's chief medical officer says there is a narrow path to playing college sports during the coronavirus pandemic and if testing across the U.S. does not improve, it cannot be done.
Dr. Brian Hainline told CNN late Saturday that "everything would have to line up perfectly" for college sports to be played this fall. Much of the fall college sports season has been cancelled, with conferences hoping to make up competitions, including football, in the spring.On Sunday morning, Big Ten football players continued to push the conference to overturn its cancellation of the fall season.
The NCAA has no jurisdiction over major college football, so the conferences have been left to make their own calls. At the highest level of college football, four conferences -- including the Big Ten and Pac-12 -- have postponed fall sports and are hoping to make them up in some fashion in the spring.
Hainline told CNN that how colleges and universities handled the reopening of campuses to students will be crucial in determining when fall sports can be played. Athletes have been on campus for nearly two months in some cases preparing for their seasons and being regularly tested for COVID-19.
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