Texas A&M AD Ross Bjork responds to governor Greg Abbott's statement on stadium attendance
This week, Texas governor Greg Abbott reportedly held a call with the state’s FBS athletic directors, discussing stadium capacity for 2020.
Per USA TODAY’s Dan Wolken, Abbott said it would be highly unlikely to have anything over 50% capacity this fall.
As you can see below, Texas A&M AD Ross Bjork thanked the governor for the call, but said it is still too early to make a final decision about anything:
Had lots of inquires about this so here’s what I gave to @BrentZwerneman & others. We will continue to see how things progress & make appropriate decisions. Appreciate our @12thMan @12thManFndtn donors, season ticket holders, fans & students for their patience & support. https://t.co/LwYJCjGfVI pic.twitter.com/PdmpUdhDRV
— Ross Bjork (@RossBjorkAD) June 13, 2020
It is only June, and the season isn’t supposed to start until September, so things could change.
How full will stadiums be during the 2020 season? That still remains to be seen.
Bjork the Spork…watch out ATM, he’s from KibbleLand, where they live in a fantasy land!
The question is the same for football as it is for all other businesses and for all other gathering places. Either the goal is to protect everyone from infection for as long as possible (and this hasn’t worked financially) (nor has this worked socially) OR the goal is to protect those who are the most likely to die from the infection. The 2nd option has to be the way for football and maybe for society, to identify and protect the most vulnerable. Nothing else is realistic or possible right now. This is the nature of many viruses. Once we wrap our minds around that, football stadium attendance is possible but that doesn’t make it desirable for everyone. The history of virus attacks on humanity shows there will be years when a virus is killing too many people to allow normal human behavior to go unchecked. For the past few hundred years that seemed to be about every 50 years. Then we went from 1917 to the last decade or so. Now we have had a series of virus attacks, mostly from related virus agents, the Corona viruses accounting for most of problems, where the spread of the virus kills between .1% of the infected to 34% of the infected. Also variable is the % of the populace who seemed to catch the bug. Of course football stadiums are just one of the risk factors. Wet markets in China where all kinds of species are exposed to one another have to be completely eliminated. Maybe Confined Area Feeding Operations have to go back to farms where animals are not exposed to so many others, it never was a humane way to raise farm animals anyway. It will help a great deal if we can start having a negative population birth (and immigration) rate. The way people live in big cities has never been healthy for more reasons than just virus attacks.
Well. I’m happy you got that off your chest.
WOW.
I believe venues will have anyone planning to attend sign waivers. That is the only way I can see any stadium reaching capacity going forward.
SEC Fans Will Sign Em…Because in early September It’s Time-For-Football…and the entire country, not just SEC Fans, is Starved for Sports.
As long as #11 is there….
50% is all are willing to go.
Never have I seen an individual do more to alienate a loyal fanbase.