While some major college programs are plowing ahead with plans (for now) to play this fall, like those in the Southeastern and Big 12 conferences, Cal has plenty of shutdown company in California.
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Schools like Stanford, U.C.L.A. and Southern California, all part of the Pac-12, too, will not have fall sports and have gone mostly to online classes. The Mountain West Conference, with schools like Fresno State and San Diego State, also shut down its competition schedule.
The best hope is for the fall sports to shift their schedules to after the first of the year, which could make for a complicated winter and spring for all the schools.
Is it even possible to play 30 sports simultaneously? And what if school remains online only? Should the fields be open at a renowned university when the classrooms are not?
We will follow along as Cal tries to untangle the web. What is the impact on the budget, on the coaches, on the student-athletes? What are the ripple effects on academics, training, recruiting, eligibility, facilities, hiring, fund-raising and mental health?
Those stories, we hope, will be told in the coming weeks and months. They will give an inside-out view of the world through one athletic department or, really, all of them.
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‘Is It Even Possible to Play 30 Sports Simultaneously?’
