Planning for the Fall

D3Playbook MAY 26, 2020 | written by STEVE ULRICH your must-read briefing on what's driving the day in NCAA Division III Our goal is to keep you - the influencers in DIII athletics - apprised of what's happening around Division III - the games, polls, news, happenings, awards, calendar of events, and much more. We hope you enjoy d3Playbook and that you'll share this with your friends, colleagues and co-workers.   >> Good Tuesday Morning. Did you enjoy your long weekend? >> Today's Word Count: 815. Brief, concise, smart. An easy read to start your day. >> Thanks for reading D3Playbook. Please recommend us to a friend or co-worker. Or share with your staff and bring them up-to-speed on what's happening in DIII.   Subscribe to d3Playbook 1.  Planning for the Fall by Greg Johnson, NCAA "The planning for the 2020 fall NCAA championships is moving forward with the idea to prepare for adjustments in these unpredictable times. During the latest NCAA Social Series, Senior Vice President of Championships Joni Comstock, Division I Competition Oversight Committee Chair Lynda Tealer and Chief Medical Officer Brian Hainline discussed how they are leading preparations as college sports attempts to return during the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussions are centered on ways to protect the health, safety and well-being of student-athletes, coaches, administrators and spectators. At the foundation of the talks is maintaining fair and equitable selection protocol and retaining the same formats under the same timelines and at the same previously determined sites. However, alterations may have to occur due to local, state or national health and safety mandates." >> Situational Awareness: "Sharing information from the NCAA COVID-19 Advisory Panel, which is headed by Hainline, is part of the process, so the individual sports committees have all the information to make decisions should they have to alter any selection, seeding and bracketing procedures." >> What They're Saying: “We are in early discussions right now of looking at ‘Does it make sense for us to move up the regular season and try to conclude fall championships on, around or before the week of Thanksgiving?’” Comstock said. “If we can, and it makes sense, we certainly would like to have a complete experience for the student-athletes this fall.” >> Be Smart: "Hainline also said there is a new point-of-care test being developed that could be used in settings like a doctor’s office. Test results could be known in five to 10 minutes. The first round of this testing proved to be around 80% accurate. If the testing becomes more accurate, it would mark another breakthrough." >> Go Deeper 2.  Fauci Speaks by Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY "Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s most prominent epidemiologist, on Friday added his voice to the body of experts describing the need for coronavirus testing of college athletes when moratoriums on the athletes’ on-campus activities begin to lift. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, gave an interview to The Chronicle of Higher Education in which he addressed a wide range of issues related to universities’ efforts to resume amid the pandemic. He said one potential model is to “essentially test all the students before they come in, just so that you know what the baseline of infection is” and then do intermittent random surveillance testing of parts of the student population." >> Quotable: “The athletes that tend to come back the earliest are the football players,” he told The Chronicle. “That’s a very intensive contact sport. What I think would be important if they’re going to do that is to test all the players and make sure that when they do come in, they come in all negative at the same time and then do the same sort of surveillance of them and make sure the people who are associated with them — the people who serve their meals, the people who are involved in training with them — also are protected in the sense of wearing masks and doing social distancing to the extent possible.” >> Continue Reading   3. New Kids in Town   The NCAA Division III Management Council approved Manor (Pa.) College for an exploratory year beginning in September. Bob Jones (S.C.) University and Warren Wilson (N.C.) College will also begin the provisional membership process in the fall.   4.  Fall Plans   From the Chronicle of Higher Education, here’s a complete alphabetical list of Division III colleges that have either disclosed their plans, mentioned them in news reports, or set a deadline for deciding. Gallaudet - Waiting to decide Northern Vermont - Planning for in-person Randolph-Macon - Waiting to decide Sewanee - Planning for in-person as of May 25, 3:12 p.m. EDT   SPONSORED MESSAGE Would you like to sponsor this newsletter? Would you like to advertise an open position in your department for a head coach or administrator? Contact d3playbook@gmail.com to get your job opening in front of decision-makers in small-college athletics.   5.  Calendar May 26-29 - Men's Lacrosse Rules Committee May 28-31 - Career in Sports Forum June 2-5 - Ice Hockey Rules Committee June 8 - Men's Basketball Committee June 10 - Track and Field Committee June 10-11 - Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sport committee June 15-16 - Championships Committee June 24-25 - Membership Committee   6.  Comings and Goings   Mike Strydom named head women's tennis coach at Coe. Jeff Conarroe named head men's basketball coach at Colorado College. Pankil Chandler named assistant wrestling coach at Springfield. Ken McLaughlin announced his retirement as head swimming and diving coach at Potsdam.   7. 1 Hitchin' A Ride Thing Photo: Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images A swan swims with cygnets on the Ill River in Strasbourg, eastern France.   Subscribe to d3Playbook

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