NEW ORLEANS -- Commissioner Keith Gill set the tone for the league's 2021 football season and covid-19 in his State of the Conference speech at Sun Belt Football Media Day on Thursday, charting a landscape that will look decidedly different from 2020.
"This year, we will not reschedule games," Gill said in front of a lectern at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel.
"If it's a conference game and a team is not able to participate, then that will be a forfeit. We will not reschedule that game."
The new policy is a departure from last fall -- when games were moved and others were declared no contest across the Sun Belt -- and sets up a clear incentive for programs and their student-athletes to be vaccinated and follow covid-19 guidelines ahead the fall season without mandating formally vaccines.