The problem with all this

Look, I don't know how this all plays out. Neither do you.

 Neither does your governor. Neither does Norm down the street with his MAGA hat and his AR-15 and his marching orders from partisan conspiracy kooks. And certainly neither does the raving ninny in the White House, who by now is no doubt roaming the halls in the dead of night having imaginary arguments with paintings of long-dead presidents.

Maybe, as states begin to re-open for bidness against the advice of the more learned among us, proper precautions will be observed and there will be social distancing and the COVID-19 curve will continue to flatten. Or, more likely, as with the beaches in Florida, people will flock back to restaurants and bars in droves, and Norm and the rest of his buddies will get sick and then make others sick, and the whole deal will ramp up again.

Me, I'm an odds-weigher. And I don't like the numbers here. So I don't go anywhere until I see what happens to Norm and his fellow guinea pigs.

In any event, the only thing I really know is Bob Bowlsby is making a hell of a lot of sense right now.

What the commissioner of the Big 12 said the other day, in an interview with SiriusXM  Big 12 radio, is he's confident college football will start up again on Labor Day or thereabouts. He's just not as sure what happens after that.

People starved for college football may get their college football, at least initially. But then ...

"I worry more about the end of the season and the postseason than I do the beginning parts of the season," Bowlsby says. "If the virus comes roaring back in the traditional flu and virus season in November, December, through March, I wonder if we're going to get the basketball seasons in, I wonder if we're going to get the (College Football Playoff) in, I wonder if we're going to get the NCAA Tournament in."

That's the uncomfortable truth about this, see: We can take all the precautions we want, but that doesn't mean the Bastard Plague is going to vanish. More and more epidemiologists are thinking it's going to be with us in some form or another for good. And until a vaccine is developed, it will continue to be lethal to the more at-risk among us.

So you can bring back college football, even in empty stadiums and with all due precautions, and then what happens? What happens if players get sick from one another and take it to back to the dorms and the classrooms with them, and then the general population starts to get sick?

Absent a vaccine, here we go again.

Or, not. Like I said, I don't know. But Bowlsby's point is well-taken.

Meanwhile, NASCAR has announced it's starting back up on May 17, at Darlington. There will be no fans and no practice and no qualifying. Everyone will just hop in their cars and go.

Maybe that will be precaution enough. Maybe it won't.

Such a nasty word, that maybe.