The NCAA guidance released this week recommending schools test 72 hours in advance of games, among other protocols, was the tipping point that effectively ended the fall 2020 sports season. Today basically all of New England, conferences and schools alike, cancelled on the 2020 season.
Starting this Monday we'll see a large number of similar announcements in schools outside the East, which will eventually lead to the NCAA effectively saying fall sports championships will not be held, save for the low impact / risk sports listed in their last memo.
For Hobart, this means a possible spring football season, along with the rest of D3FB. The issue there is what does that actually look like? There are numerous risks, even worse and more likely than contracting the virus in my opinion, to playing two full contact football seasons within an 7-8 month time period.
The complications of moving fall sports to spring raises a lot of other questions, not limited to what sports get priority scheduling wise? How are locker rooms going to be shared? Are there enough athletic training and equipment staff?
This is just the tip of the iceberg. We'll have more on In the D3FB Huddle early next week on this topic.
I'm just very disappointed we couldn't do better for our student athletes and coaches.
Go 'Bart....
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