When UMass cancelled their Fall 2020 season it made sense. They lack money in a year where everyone is losing money rapidly. They don’t have a conference schedule to fall back on, and would have to recreate it from scratch. Add to that COVID-19 restrictions, and it just seemed easier to wait until the Spring.
Well, then the season started, and it went well enough. Not without hiccups, but the whole sport didn’t have to shutdown. So, the conferences that cancelled started coming back. Left to play the Spring were a few bottom tier Independents and Old Dominion.