Asked point blank he believes there will be a 2020 football season, Hinojosa informed MSNBC: “I seriously question it.”
” Thats a real contact sport, I do not see how we can pull that off,” Hinojosa continued. “Theres been some discussion of moving it to the spring, however well need to see and wait. I seriously question that we can pull that off.”
A student athlete runs a drill during a strength and conditioning camp at Arlington Martin High School on June 18, 2020, in Arlington, Texas.LM Otero/ AP
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” At this time, UIL strategies to begin fall competition seasons as arranged on the UIL calendar,” according to a statement to NBC News on Thursday afternoon.
” As the scenarios around the COVID-19 pandemic are ever-changing, we do not have a specific timetable to release further details. UIL continues to monitor the situation and any updates will depend on assistance from regional and state authorities and launched when more details is readily available.”
No state is more carefully related to high school football than Texas.
The 1990 non-fiction “Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream,” by H. G. Bissinger, followed the fortunes of Permian High School in Odessa, Texas, and led to a movie and critically well-known television show of the very same name.
Dallas ISD has 153,000 kindergarten through 12th-grade trainees and is the 14th largest school system in America, second biggest in Texas, topped just by Houston.
The University Interscholastic League, which governs high school sports in Texas, pressed back on Hinojosa and stated, “at this time” football is still set for the fall.
Garrett Haake contributed.
However the sport is now being threatened in Texas, which is suffering from a significant spike in cases. Since Thursday morning, Texans were screening favorable for coronavirus at 15.59-percent rate, according to rolling seven-day information assembled by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Thats well above the World Health Organization criteria of 5 percent. Only four states and Puerto Rico had a higher favorable rate than Texas.
The pandemic forced sports around the globe to shut down in early March and is continuing to ruin any strategies to restart.
The Big Ten Conference, that includes elite scholastic schools such as Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, revealed Thursday it was dropping all non-league video games for fall sports, including football.
The Ivy League, which has played football because the video games innovation, closed the books Wednesday on 2020 football and all other conventional autumn sports.
The superintendent of public schools in Dallas said Thursday the coronavirus pandemic might spike prep football this fall in Texas, where the sport rules supreme on Friday nights.
Michael Hinojosa, who runs the Dallas Independent School District– with 23 high schools that field football teams– said he has major bookings about putting student-athletes on the arena with cases of coronavirus rising in the Lone Star State.
David K. Li
David K. Li is a breaking news press reporter for NBC News.
