Tennessee football to take part in virtual SEC Media Days
COVID-19 is changing the Southeastern Conference event in 2020 for the Tennessee football Volunteers.
It looks like Tennessee football will be virtually attending the yearly event that kicks off the college football season in 2020. SEC Media Days, which was set for July 13-16, will now be held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The league announced the move on Wednesday morning. This will be the first time in history that it is held virtually. It was initially scheduled to return to Atlanta, where it first took place in 2018 before going back to SEC headquarters in Alabama last year.
According to the office, dates and times for the event still have not been announced, implying that it will not go as initially scheduled. As a result, we don’t know when Tennessee football head coach Jeremy Pruitt and different players take the stand. Here is a look at what SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said about the situation.
"“Conducting football media days in a virtual format will provide us the opportunity to manage the event in a healthy manner as we continue to be impacted by COVID-19, and will provide flexibility for our programs to adjust their preparation for the 2020 football season according to the preseason calendar that is expected to be expanded due to the cancellation of the spring football season. We look forward to returning to our traditional media days format in 2021.”"
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Initially, Pruitt and the Vols were set to be the last team to take the stage on Wednesday, July 15, following Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban, Arkansas Razorbacks head coach Sam Pittman and Mississippi State Bulldogs head coach Mike Leach in that order. Whether or not that is still the plan remains to be seen.
Although the event is always an exciting one to signify the kickoff of the season, it makes sense to hold things virtually this year. Even if things are getting better, there’s no sense in risking anything just for a media days event. The priority is to make sure college football season can start.
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As of right now, players are still in the process of returning to campus and beginning voluntary workouts, particularly in he SEC, and there have been some positive coronavirus tests for some athlete, specifically on the Auburn Tigers and Alabama Crimson Tide. None had hit Tennessee football at the time of this announcement, but this is still a good precaution.