University leaders across the country are fearful of how coronavirus cases will spread when students are on campus in the coming weeks and if the coronavirus pandemic makes playing college football feasible.
Alabama coach Nick Saban told ESPN, that they were safer with the football team than they were elsewhere.
Saban said, “We also test anybody that has symptoms and have an open testing site where they can go and get tested as many times as they want or any time they feel like they need to.
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“But our guys aren’t going to catch [the virus] on the football field. They’re going to catch it on campus. The argument then should probably be, ‘We shouldn’t be having school.’ That’s the argument. Why is it, ‘We shouldn’t be playing football?’ Why has that become the argument?”
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