The first serious warning of how major college sports might be impacted this fall by the coronavirus pandemic was sounded Tuesday when California State University system chancellor Timothy White announced that it will operate primarily with online instruction for the semester.
The system’s 23 schools include Fresno State, San Diego State and San Jose State, all of which are members of the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision’s 12-team Mountain West Conference.
Spokesmen for those three schools and the Mountain West were not immediately available.
Six other Cal State campuses also are in Division I — Cal Poly, Fullerton, Long Beach and Northridge (all in the nine-team Big West Conference), Sacramento (Big Sky) and Bakersfield (Western Athletic).