There has been much discussion about the differential impact COVID-19 has based on the age and health status of the infected. Some posts have emphasized that younger people, such as college football players, have much lower risk of severe complications and can resume most normal activities while older and less healthy people should use more precautions, including shelter-in-place.
Perhaps football can move forward with adequate safety measures for the players. To the best of my knowledge, though, there hasn't been any discussion of coaches. Kirk Ferentz will turn 65 in August and Ken O'Keefe will turn 67. As far as we know, they are relatively healthy, especially Kirk. Phil Parker is younger, but at 57 is approaching that "magic" age of 60. Jay Niemann may have reached it. Chris Doyle is probably the next oldest at 51. Football can't happen without the coaches; our head coach and a couple of others are in the vulnerable population. Short of coaching by Zoom, what would be reasonable safety measures for conducting practices, meetings, and games?
Perhaps football can move forward with adequate safety measures for the players. To the best of my knowledge, though, there hasn't been any discussion of coaches. Kirk Ferentz will turn 65 in August and Ken O'Keefe will turn 67. As far as we know, they are relatively healthy, especially Kirk. Phil Parker is younger, but at 57 is approaching that "magic" age of 60. Jay Niemann may have reached it. Chris Doyle is probably the next oldest at 51. Football can't happen without the coaches; our head coach and a couple of others are in the vulnerable population. Short of coaching by Zoom, what would be reasonable safety measures for conducting practices, meetings, and games?