Coach K Questions Continuing to Play During Pandemic

While the entire world waits for a vaccine for the Coronavirus, sports has been a nice little distraction. We remember what it was like when there was no live sports. It was brutal. Apparently Coach K thinks college basketball should cease until everything is sorted out with the vaccine.

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Via SI:

“I’m not sure who leads college basketball. It’s done by committee. Anything that’s led by committee is not agile in handling a situation. There was a consensus. It wasn’t like well-planned. Just that we were going to start Nov. 25. That was made without knowing where the vaccine was, how many cases.

Basically, it was more a mentality of get as many games in as possible. I would just like for the safety, the mental and physical health of players and staff to assess where we’re at.

You have 2,000 deaths a day. You have 200,000 cases. People are saying the next six weeks are going be the worst. To me, it’s already pretty bad. On the other side of it, there are these vaccines that are coming out. By the end of the month 20 million vaccine shots will be given. By the end of January or in February, another 100 million. Should we not reassess that? See just what would be best?”

Coach K’s comments came after an 83-68 loss to Illinois.

Coach K talking about not playing after a brutal loss seems pretty suspicious. Maybe he knows his team isn’t all that great? Of course Coach K cares about human life, and he does make some valid points.

I know one thing for sure, we really need March Madness to happen next year.

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