Michigan Football: 3 Biggest issues with a spring season

Too many unknowns

There are just so many questions up in the air about a spring season it’s almost hard to keep track. For starters, the NCAA is going to have to answer the scholarship question.

The 85 scholarship limit isn’t going to work if recruits are allowed to enroll early and play in a hypothetical spring season. Also, what about players who opt-out or even transfer?

That’s not the only issue. What happens if other conferences such as the ACC, SEC or Big 12 play in the fall? When would there be a College Football Playoff or would it even exist? What about bowl games?

And that doesn’t even touch on the fact that weather for a spring season may not be great. So trying to get an indoor place to play games or even a bubble type scenario is another issue.

Then you have to ask, is it worth having a shortened season, without a playoff or even bowl games?

Obviously, the league would hold its own championship and there would still be the rivalry games, however, if Ohio State and Michigan are without most of their starters, it won’t be the same.

Are TV partners going to want to pay the same money in TV contracts for a watered-down product? Plus, we don’t really have any idea that it will be safer by then in terms of the virus.

At the end of the day, a spring season is possible. It’s just the worst possible solution and one that can’t be done without a massive collaborative effort, which as we’ve seen, at least in college sports, seems downright impossible.