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Message: [QUOTE="Storrs South, post: 3524640, member: 7275"] Thanks. I have never worked in an athletic department, but I see like this working backwards: season starts in August, training camp starts over the summer (someone who better understands correct me if I'm wrong???), and many kids are on campus in the spring lifting and learning the playbook/taking classes over the summer. I do not know what would be a reasonable timeframe to get college kids ready for a football season, but it starts way before August and so the call needs to be made months in advance of whatever the day is (let's call it July 1, but my uneducated guess is earlier). On top of that, others have noted that if kids are not back on campus, games will not be played. So it's a similar working backwards approach. School starts in August, universities need to be prepared to pivot to online or adjust and make preparations to be on campus well in advance. I do not know what that timing is but they can't make the call in June or July, it probably needs to happen earlier (these are massive institutions that can just flip a switch overnight to make things happen). They made the pivot quickly in March to online, but now as we are talking long term, this is now really putting pressure on finances so schools need to make decisions to retain or furlough faculty, university personnel in advance. [/QUOTE]