The doors at E.A. Diddle Arena are locked and its halls are barren. Western Kentucky University is still open, but it’s staffed like a bad snow day no one is celebrating.
Tucked deep into the administrative offices where lights are shut off except in the office of the building’s boss, Todd Stewart weighs through the hours that have felt like days, days that felt like weeks and the week that has felt like two months.
“Truly unprecedented,” Stewart says in an interview with the Daily News.
Athletics are on hold for the time being. Nothing has been the same since the meeting on the third floor of the Omni Hotel in Frisco, Texas, with Conference USA officials and athletic directors to call off the league tournament and postpone spring sports seasons.