Some of the smartest student-athletes across the country reside in the Ivy League and there are rumors that they may move their football season to the spring. The report by TMG Sports claims that the league is preparing to play a seven-game schedule, with just in-conference games that would begin in April and finish in May.
Normally the Ivy League would being play a few weeks after the majority of the rest of college football and it would be a 10-game schedule as opposed to a 12-game slate like the Irish are set to play. The league also doesn’t have summer workouts, so their student-athletes have yet to return to campus.
With what has transpired across the NCAA has been alarming, LSU has over 30 confirmed players testing positive, Clemson has had two separate groups of positive tests resulting in 37 players testing positive, Boise State stopped voluntary workouts due to positive tests and that is just a few examples of teams dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.
It remains to be seen how the Ivy League will ultimately handle the situation, but having an alternate plan is a great idea. Who knows what will happen over the next two months, I hope the country, especially some southern states get a handle on the control of this virus. We all want to see college football in the fall, but not at the risk of the student-athletes.