Dan Radakovich shares timeline for Clemson football fans in Death Valley
The 2020 Clemson football season is going to be very different than anything we’ve seen in the past.
Though the expectation is that we’ll see football during the fall season of 2020, there are plenty of questions as to how the season will look like and what changes we will see.
Clemson Athletic Director Dan Radakovich recently spoke with ESPN’s Heather Dinich and detailed the timeline for when he expects decisions to be laid out and what the plan is currently as the Tigers move forward with summer workouts in preparation for the upcoming season.
Radakovich said that Clemson is moving forward with the idea of having fans in Death Valley this season, but what that will look like is still yet to be determined.
"“Hopefully within the next three to four weeks, we’ll have some various scenarios to talk through with our campus,” Radakovich told Dinich, “but since our first home game isn’t until Sept. 12 … we have a little bit more time than some others do who are hosting in the first week to come up with a final capacity and, given the fact we’re using mobile ticketing, be able to get those tickets out to our fan base.”"
The plan is to have Clemson football fans involved in some capacity
The fact of the matter is that no one knows exactly what College Football will look like this season. Dinich’s piece dives into the thoughts on if the season will take place, what the season will look like, how many positives is a problem, if there will be uniformity in all of this and plenty of other questions surrounding this season.
At this point, though, the one takeaway is that no one knows for sure.
The plan listening to Radakovich, though, is to have fans in the stands at Clemson. Radakovich has been up-front in saying that he doesn’t know what the capacity limit will look like or how many fans will be allowed to gather in Death Valley. In addition to gathering in the stadium, there are questions about parking lots and tailgating.
Texas Governor Greg Abbot recently met with the Athletic Directors of his state and told them not to expect the 50 percent capacity limit to raise much higher by the start of the season.
If Clemson was to get the green light for 50 percent capacity, we would be looking at a Death Valley of around 41,000 fans.
While there’s no guarantees on anything as of now, Radakovich did, in fact, lay out a timetable (at least of sorts). He said that the plan is to begin looking at scenarios- not making final decisions- in around 3-4 weeks (the middle of July).
That’s still a month from now and a lot of things could change, but Clemson football fans will likely have to wait until at least then to begin to see any type of a clearer picture on what the season will look like.