MIAMI _ As 400 or so University of Miami student-athletes on Monday begin to navigate the "new normal," which is about as distant from normal as the earth is from the sun (92,900,000 miles), the Hurricanes athletic director is contemplating a very unnerving future _ no matter how long or short in duration _ driven by a virus that knows no boundaries.
"Obviously, I've never been through anything like this," Blake James told the Miami Herald by phone on Friday, three days before all UM students were to begin the last six weeks of the school year with online classes. "There are a lot of moving parts. The current normal changes every day."
And though James won't even begin to talk specifics when asked at what point the football schedule would have to be contemplated and, perhaps, cut short or rearranged, he acknowledged that it is a scenario that obviously would be discussed if the fallout continues from Covid-19 and the coronavirus.
"It's too early to say anything about that," James said. "It's a situation where football (fall camp) doesn't start until August and assuming they're able to have a full fall camp or majority of camp, I don't think there will be any impact on the schedule _ for any of our fall sports."
