As Notre Dame instituted an optional pass/fail grading system for this semester of remote learning, the student-athletes should not have any additional worries about the usual GPA thresholds that lead to mid-May piece of news that upsets Irish fans. Instead, letter grades will be factored in only when students choose — in other words, only when those grades will boost a GPA.
That may have reduced some of the stress of audibling to schooling from a distance, but Notre Dame’s coaching staff has still taken on some atypical duties amidst the discord of sending the players home on a moment’s notice.