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Syracuse AD: No ACC talk to cancel '20 football
The consensus in the ACC is "we want to play" college football, Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack said Thursday, speaking as concern mounts about the 2020 season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack says the ACC has had no conversations about canceling the 2020 football season amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking on a Zoom teleconference about the state of his athletic department and the fate of the fall sports schedule, Wildhack said Thursday that the consensus is, "We want to play."
Said Wildhack: "We have not, as a conference, had any discussions in terms of not playing. We want to play. We plan to play. What we don't know is when we're going to start and what form or what format we're going to start. Do you play with fans, do you not play with fans? So much is unknown, but the ADs and the conference office, we meet twice a week, and there's not been one second of conversation about not having a football season in some way, shape or form."
Wildhack cautioned that the decision is not going to be up to people like him.
Responding to comments that University of Arizona president Dr. Robert Robbins made Wednesday about not having a fall football season, Wildhack said, "There's so many things that people have stated that are floated out there, and the one thing I don't want to do is engage in speculation because there's so much we don't know, and we don't control this. What we do as a university, what we do as a conference, it will be led by the progress we make against the virus. It will be led by our elected officials, the governors of the individual states, in our case here the county executive, obviously the medical experts."
