Speculation regarding the potential scenarios that would need to take place in order for the coming college football season to be played has been running rampant in recent days and weeks with one of the main talking points focusing on the potential of playing the games without fans in the stands.

If that’s the only way the upcoming college football season can be played, Paul Finebaum doesn’t believe the season will be played.

The SEC Network host recently made an appearance on ESPN morning show “Get Up” and was asked to share his thoughts on playing the coming season without fans. He didn’t hold back in his response to that question.

“I think it would be the end of college football as we know it,” Finebaum responded. “I don’t think it would happen, but if it does, it would further shatter this myth of intercollegiate athletics being amateur. That would be a pure, professional sellout, and from what I hear, I do not believe college presidents and commissioners would go for this.

“I talked to Jimbo Fisher the other day and he said we have to have football, although he said all the right things in the aftermath of that, but I think it would cheapen the sport. It would just simply devalue everything that college presidents stand up for at orientation and at graduation and I don’t think it would ever recover from that.”

Here’s a clip of Finebaum’s appearance on the show courtesy of the official “Get Up” Twitter account.