Based on CDC data, a student athlete is more likely to die from a lightning strike than from an infection with coronavirus. Even if you forget the goal posts regarding ICU beds and ventilators, mitigation is still only about protecting those individuals who are elderly or have chronic health conditions, which would just include a small number of staff and faculty on the campus. But here is the most important implication of delaying the football season: it is still unknown if COVID-19 will follow a typical respiratory virus pattern, but flu season normally starts around the Christmas break and runs through March. If that turns out to be the situation and a vaccine is elusive, a decision to keep kids out of classes in the fall, would almost guarantee a shutdown for the entire 20-21 academic year. The idea that it's acceptable for college kids to study online for a year and a half would doom the whole idea of traditional college campus education. Rewrite the class catalog because labs and group projects are now obsolete.