The Weekly Word is GoldandBlack.com's weekly, obviously, column covering Purdue football, basketball and recruiting, as well as college sports issues, the true meaning of life, or whatever other topics might come to mind in a given week.

Last week we used this space to point out that if there's going to be a college football season, it's going to be up to the young people in the middle of it all to do what's right to keep themselves healthy now.

That's a matter of social habits as much as anything, a worry that'll be doused in gasoline come the return of the rest of the student body.

But there's another component to that, a challenge just as difficult.