Pat Chun is optimistic WSU will have fall sports

With Washington State moving to being almost entirely online this fall semester, many wondered what that would mean for fall sports. From football to soccer to volleyball, there’s plenty of successful teams to be interested in this fall.

Athletic Director Pat Chun met with the media yesterday and shared some optimism that WSU would be able to have some sort of fall sports season. Chun also shared that just three of the 216 student athletes on campus have tested positive for COVID-19, a 1.3% positive rate. Chun did, however, make the point that the positive rate of overall tests is lower due to athletes being tested multiple times.

“The rate we’re headed in Pullman right now, we feel good about our chances to get fall sports going sometime in September. As many of us know, this is a day-to-day, week-to-week type of environment,” Chun said, as reported by The Spokesman-Review’s Theo Lawson.

For comparison’s sake, the state of Washington has a 5.7% positive rate, while Whitman County has just 74 total cases since March.

Whether fall sports happen or not won’t be decided by WSU. The Pac-12 membership will work together to make that decision. So while the fall semester will look a lot different in Pullman, there is still hope for fall sports.

Report: WSU to play at USC if football uses a 10-game, conference-only schedule

So says Stadium’s Brett McMurphy:

WSU already had five home games scheduled, and the conference wants each team to have equal amount of home and road games. USC had four home games, so the matchup works.

Arizona, who we’d all probably rather play, also only had four home games, but I’m too lazy to look up everybody’s schedule to see who messed that one up for us. Ah, well.

Links

Report: Revised Pac-12 schedule would include 10 games, Sept. 19 start date | The Spokesman-Review
A few weeks ago, the Pac-12 announced it would move forward with conference-only schedules for the fall football season. Now the conference is finalizing its plans for a 10-game Pac-12 schedule that would tentatively start in mid-September.

If college football is played, will bowls be salvaged, too? | The Spokesman-Review
College football leaders are in the process of piecing together plans to attempt to play a regular season during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Washington State AD: 'We feel great about our chances of getting ready for fall sports' | The Spokesman-Review
While most undergraduate students at Washington State met a grim reality on Thursday when the school decided to close the Pullman campus for in-person instruction, there still may be a silver lining for Cougar athletes.