I feel pretty confident that, however this all shakes out, there will be few football teams in the country better prepared to embrace whatever the new normal will be.
As an aside, we should all be so lucky as to find someone who loves us as much as Pat McAfee loves PJ Fleck.
This is the most "human" crisis in this nation since at least 1918. Even the world wars took place on other continents, contested by a relatively small group of the population. It needs a more empathetic and motivational approach than we have now.
I think serious doctors in charge and a pep talk from PJ Fleck is what America needs right now.
The national story about PJ Fleck is coming out more and more.
It is not just about winning alone for him. It is about doing it the right way. He is making a huge impact in kids lives in the four cornerstone of his coaching philosophy - Academically, athletically, socially, and spiritually.
• Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck went on former NFL punter Pat McAfee’s radio show and had a positive message about how he is trying to respond to the shutdown of sports: “We all have a role in this. And we can all row the boat together. We can all take our problems, look at them as situations and create opportunities that make this world better. But here’s the one thing, we all affect this. Every single one of us have an impact of how we actually change the future of this nation. When has that ever happened?”