The conference’s university presidents made the decision to cancel all fall sports – including soccer and volleyball – and explore making them up in the spring season.
The Mid-American Conference on Saturday became the first league competing at college football’s highest level to cancel its fall season because of concerns. « I’m heartbroken we are in this place, » MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said. With the MAC’s 12 schools facing a significant financial burden by trying to maintain costly coronavirus protocols, the conference’s university presidents made the decision to cancel all fall sports — including soccer and volleyball — and explore making them up in the spring season. But Steinbrecher stressed this was first a decision about the health and well-being of the athletes, and the conference’s medical experts were not comfortable that sports could be run safely.
