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Opinion: Notre Dame facing uncertainty as football program hits pause

South Bend (Ind.) Tribune

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The relative quiet surrounding Notre Dame football’s apparently voluntary pause in the practice schedule is, at the very least, unsettling.

Not because taking off Wednesday and Thursday a week after training camp started — is the precursor to the beginning of the end of Notre Dame’s stab at playing fall football in 2020, but because of the lack of reassurances that the opposite is true.

A two-sentence, athletic department press release, issued Wednesday, described the reasoning for the psuccinctly and ambiguously as “an abundance of caution.