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Consider one hurdle to football officially cleared.
While some states have begun to somewhat open back up after coronavirus-based quarantines, just because something was allowed to happen on a local level didn’t mean it applied to everyone.
Such has been the case with football, as the NCAA had a moratorium on any activities — voluntary or mandatory — involving sports since the pandemic took ahold. That means that while a certain state may have allowed players to return to their respective facilities and work out, the NCAA prohibited it — fair, considering not everyone would have that opportunity.
But now we can see the opportunity on the horizon for teams to return, as the NCAA is now allowing voluntary activities to start taking place as of June 1.
Sources: The NCAA Division I Council voted to approve voluntary athletic activities in football, MBB and WBB to start June 1st and go through June 30th. There had been a moratorium on that through May 31st. Other sports will be acted on on a later date.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) May 20, 2020
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Of course, that doesn’t mean every team can or will start to return to campus. Ohio State will return June 8, but Michigan is in something of a precarious situation, as the Governor has yet to indicate when such activity can return to the southern lower peninsula (Gov. Whitmer has shared a plan to soft-open the upper peninsula and the Traverse City area, but not yet Greater Detroit and beyond).
For now, we’ll wait and see when the Governor will allow those in-state to get back to business — not as usual, but at least in some capacity.
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