Major football programs are holding their breath to see how the Ivy league will handle athletics. Harvard, Princeton and the other Big Boys have moved to a hybrid strategy of online classes and rotating attendees, and are the first conference to make call on primarily off-campus instruction. That’s not to say that what Penn or Columbia do will be models for the Big 12 or the SEC; rather, that administrators are weighing options. And what the Ivies do will be instructive.
Nevertheless, is hard to to escape two conclusions about the state of fall sports.
The first, is that everyone’s hair is fire from uncertainty; we are all awash amid rising daily case numbers, conflicting research, and hourly updates that seem to break on the hour.