President Trump said Wednesday that he spoke with Clemson Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrence and LSU Tigers coach Ed Orgeron about advancing with the football season.
Earlier in the week, Trump expressed his support for the movement of players expressing their desire to play football this season amid the outbreak of coronavirus that still plagues US Lawrence’s leaders. a #WeWantToPlay movement that calls on conferences and colleges not to cancel their seasons.
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Trump said Orgeron “feels like his players just want out.” Oregon expressed the same sentiment in an interview on Fox News Channel ‘America’s Newsroom on Tuesday.
The president declared in an interview with Outkick’s Clay Travis on Tuesday that canceling college football would be a “tragic mistake”
Trump, quoted by a doctor, said because the athletes of the football colleges are in good shape, they would be less likely to pick up the coronavirus and he did not expect them to have any problems with it.
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‘The other thing is that someone explained to me, one of the great doctors, he said that these people are so powerful and so strong, not a lot of body fat – maybe you can take some offensive lineman and fight that – but not a lot body fat and maybe in some cases none and they are very healthy people. People do not realize this, but a small percentage of people who get sick … they are old. “It just affects old people, especially old people with bad hearts, diabetes or some kind of physical problem,” he said.
“It simply came to our notice then. It could be if it’s the wrong person. These footballers are physically very young, strong people. Physically, they are in extraordinary shape. That they will have no problem. You’ll see people … you know it could happen, but I doubt it. You will not see people die and many people will get it and they will … kids get it and they have the sniffles … it almost nobody has a serious problem with it. I mean literally. I think they said the state of California, almost no one that young, like zero, had a problem with being a serious problem with this disease. They get better very quickly when they get it all. ‘
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He added that he thought “football makes a tragic mistake”, while wondering about the atmosphere of the games he attended last season. Trump appeared at the LSU-Alabama and Army-Navy games and the national championship game between LSU and Clemson.
The Big Ten, Pac-12, Big East, Mountain West and Mid-American conferences have already postponed their bankruptcy sports plans.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
