San Diego State is among 12 members of the Mountain West, which in five days went from announcing a 10-game football season to no football season whatsoever.

No fall sports of any kind, for that matter.

Mountain West presidents reached that conclusion Monday, surprising some with the apparent swiftness of such a decision.

“They arrived at a place where they felt it was time to make that decision, based on what they were hearing from the medical experts around how we would manage playing a season with COVID-19,” said John David Wicker, SDSU’s director of athletics.

Added Wicker: “While it is deeply disappointing that we are not going to be playing football and soccer, volleyball and cross country this fall, we are committed toward working to compete in the spring.”

Wicker had a Zoom call Tuesday with local media. Here are some of the biggest questions he answered:

What will happen with all the fall athletes now that there will be no sports in the fall?

“We’ll continue to have student-athletes in San Diego and our goal is to have them working out. Our goal is to continue providing them with all the necessary tools that we can. That’s something that has been important to us.

“We feel like the ability to have them in San Diego, to be able to provide housing or access to housing, nutrition, meals, immediate access to health care, puts them in a much better situation than they might be in otherwise.”

What about their scholarships and eligibility?

“We’re definitely going to honor all of our scholarship. Any student-athlete who is on a scholarship, if they are back in San Diego and they’re practicing, or if they opt out for coronavirus reasons, their scholarship will be honored. …

“As far as eligibility for fall sports, again, we’re looking at a spring season. The NCAA will make a ruling by the end of this week on what eligibility will be for those fall sport athletes should a season get canceled or be impacted by the number of contests or if they opt out, similar to what they did with our spring sports (when a year of eligibility was added for athletes).”

What is the potential financial impact of all this on the SDSU athletic department?

“We’re still planning on playing football in the spring. We’re still figuring out what our basketball season’s going to look like. So there’s still going to be the opportunities for revenue if we can deliver the number of games required for our TV contract, then we’ll still generate that revenue. …

“We’ve got a significant number of models, from a budget standpoint, drawn up. It could be anywhere from a $12 million hit (of an overall $54 million athletics budget) down to a couple million dollar hit.

“We’ve worked with the presidents and folks with business and financial affairs to understand what that is and as we move through this we’ll work on probably what a loan would look like to the athletic department through campus that, obviously, we would have to repay.”

Wicker said he does not expect there to be any furloughs in the athletic department during the 2020-21 school year, although it is a possibility for 2021-22.

What does a spring football season look like, and what are the potential ramifications of playing two college football seasons in one calendar year?

“I imagine it would be shortened, similar to what we were proposing, eight to 10 games,” he said, emphasizing that any scenario is very hypothetical at this point. “You do have to give consideration to those schools that are located in colder climates. Would you want to be playing football in Laramie, Wyo., in January or February (where the average high is four degrees above freezing)? …

“Potentially you’re playing eight to 10 games in March and April, try to have a college football playoff at the beginning of May, the first couple of weeks.

“Then you give kids the rest of May and June off, come back with some strength and conditioning in July and start camp in August.

“That’s one very hypothetical situation that hasn’t been discussed with a whole lot of folks. We’ll, obviously, need to talk to coaches, student-athletes and medical experts on how many games we think is right for a student-athlete to participate in in any given year.”

Potentially restoring SDSU’s home game with UCLA, which was lost when the Pac-12 went to a conference-only schedule remains unknown.

Also unknown is what possible bowl scenarios would be in the spring.

What are plans for basketball, both when the athletes report and when the season begins?

“Our goal is men’s and women’s basketball (players) will come back around when school starts (Aug. 20). Our goal is, hopefully, to get them inside and working out.

“Our first game is probably early November, so sometime in the month of October we’ll have to start figuring things out and making final decisions (on the schedule).”

Does this impact anything on the Mission Valley stadium?

“No. We’re full steam ahead on Mission Valley. We’ve closed some premium seats now, so the seat-selling process has started.

“We’re back started up with our philanthropic process as well, so we’re really excited. …

“Coronavirus giveth and it taketh away. The interest rate that we’re probably going to get on our bonds is probably going to save us a couple million dollars a year on what we might have had to pay on our bond payment each year for the stadium.”

Wicker said SDSU expects to break ground “in the next day or two” on the 35,000-seat stadium scheduled to be complete in time for the start of the 2022 football season.