The Pac-12 CEO group voted unanimously on Tuesday to postpone fall sports and will look at options to return to competition next year, the conference announced.
“The health, safety and well-being of our student-athletes and all those associated with Pac-12 sports have been our number one priority since the onset of this current crisis,” Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said in a statement. “Our student-athletes, fans, staff and all those who love college sports would have played the season this calendar year as originally planned, and we know how disappointing this is.”
Impact Pac-12 student athletes will continue to guarantee their scholarships. The conference is also encouraging the NCAA to allow students who take off this academic year to take an additional year into consideration.
Last month, in the wake of the Big Ten’s same decision, the Pac-12 announced that it would continue with a conference-only football schedule to begin in September. 26. The Pac-12’s decision to cancel the fall schedule on Tuesday follows again the same decision of the Big Ten, which announced that it would cancel bankruptcy sports for an hour in the Pac-12 group meeting.
The CEO group consists of a Chancellor as President of each of the 12 universities of the conference and is the ultimate decision maker for the Pac-12.
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