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2019/2020 Season, Cancellation, College Athletics, Colleges, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Directors' Cup, Division I, Fall Standings, IMG, Learfield, Michigan, Pandemic, Stanford, Universities
The university athletics Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup was canceled for the 2019-20 Season due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, as the Board of Directors of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) did not see fit to make athletic performance rewards to colleges and universities based only on the available Final Fall Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup Standings alone, where in Division I, Stanford University had already won three national championships and led 2nd place University of Michigan, with Washington 3rd, Wisconsin 4th and BYU 5th.
We do not agree that awards should not be made, as the 2019/2020 cup could have been officially awarded viz. marked on the cup to represent only 1/2 of the school year as far as the records are concerned.
One should not wipe out what college athletes did in the first half of the year, as if it meant nothing. Done is done.
Pro golf, for example, does this right, by occasionally if rarely shortening a tournament due to bad weather, so that whatever has already been played, counts. Similarly, what young people have already achieved in their college careers should count.