The SEC should follow Ohio State’s example
Ohio State put out what their plan for college football games should be during games.
- Capacity will be capped at 20%. The capacity at The Horseshoe will be no more than 20,988 at any one time.
- There will be no tailgating.
- Face covering will be required at games.
Now, while you can enforce the first one, stopping 20,000 people going into local Columbus bars before games isn’t an option, so you’ll have to trust them. You can enforce the third one, by either supplying Ohio State facemasks at the game or not letting people who won’t wear them or booting those who persistently don’t wear them during the game.
The SEC should do the same. Yes, we know that in the Southland, tailgating is an all-important social occasion for SEC teams. They are fun, they are loved by College Gameday, and they help ‘bring the noise’ to a stadium.
However, people’s lives are more important.
Putting the rules down now may annoy some of the SEC fanbase who will not doubt scream and yell and stamp their feet like children and go on about their freedoms, but if they want college football to go ahead, Ohio State’s model is the way to go.
Of course, they could always ban fans is the stadiums.