In modern college sports, billable hours remain undefeated and, if the Big 12, ACC and SEC get their way, schools and conferences will need to lawyer up at new levels
The Big Ten became the first Power Five conference to postpone its fall football season because of the pandemic. It hopes to play in the spring.Without their athletes applying pressure, the other three Power Five leagues could more easily continue to monitor the virus’ spread around their campuses, especially once students who are not athletes return, and buy themselves time to evaluate their options.
Plus, according to De Cespedes, school and conference attorneys were likely able to make a compelling case about their ability to defend COVID-19 lawsuits. “From a liability perspective, if you catch COVID-19, there’s absolutely no way with any scientific degree of certainty to track where you caught that virus, who gave it to you, how you contracted it,” De Cespedes said. “One reason we haven’t seen a lot of lawsuits yet on this issue is because it’s impossible to prove, and most good lawyers understand that.“Now that’s not to say you’re not going to get sued 500 times as a result of playing.
Surprisingly, the idea of forming sports bubbles in college sports picked up steam Thursday when NCAA President Mark Emmert said it was under consideration for men’s basketball. Just two days earlier, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said that “student-athletes” can’t be bubbled. The implication is that you would no longer be able to argue in the court of law or public opinion that college athletes are no different than students who aren’t athletes.
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