This past Friday the NCAA made an announcement that no player eligibility will be expended whether football is played this fall, in the spring, or isn’t played at all. The decision is both at once obviously practical but has a number of potentially negative downstream ramifications. It’s not a stretch to say that it may be a full half-decade or longer that we are seeing the impact of this decision. Let’s go into what it means for college football at large as well as specifically for the Washington Huskies.
The only way this decision makes no sense is if the SEC, ACC, and Big 12 get through an entire fall slate completely unhindered by COVID-19 leading the Pac-12 and Big 10 to play a full winter/spring schedule.