The ASUN athletic directors, including FGCU’s Ken Kavanagh, met Thursday afternoon, and have decided to wait until the NCAA Division I Council meets next week to see if there are further guidelines for fall sports championships due to the coronavirus pandemic, commissioner Ted Gumbart said.

“We’ve just felt there’s too much up in the air right now,” Gumbart said. “We don’t know the answers to certain questions. We are going to wait and have a meeting next week, and reserved one for the following week. We’ll map out all of the issues that need to be resolved: opt in and opt out, and what’s the financial and eligibility ramifications for that. Can we conduct a spring season if the NCAA doesn’t? We just don’t have enough firm data.”

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Gumbart is one of 40 members of the Division I Council, which also includes Jacksonville athletic director Alex Ricker-Gilbert and Jacksonville’s Kim Capriotti, who is a faculty athletic representative, from the ASUN.

On Tuesday, the NCAA Board of Governors had left it to the Division I Board of Directors to decide on fall championships, and then that Board moved it on down to the Division I Council, which is made up of primarily commissioners and athletic directors, to make the decision.

“It’s just a matter if we can push it off another week or so, I think we’ll have much better information,” Gumbart said in regards to the ASUN.

Gumbart said the Council will meet Aug. 12 to discuss recommendations. The ASUN will then meet, likely the following day.

“I do think there’s some updates that will come that will help people make these decisions,” he said.

The ASUN had announced on July 24 a delay for fall sports until Sept. 18, and said it would revisit that no later than Thursday. Fall sports include men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s soccer, and women’s volleyball.

FGCU, one of nine conference schools, has not released any of its fall sports schedules.

Men’s and women’s golf and men’s and women’s tennis also have fall portions of their season, but their main seasons and championships are in the spring.

While many conferences have chosen to delay fall sports until September, others such as the Ivy League have canceled fall sports altogether.  The Ivy League’s decision, which also included canceling any contests scheduled through the end of the fall semester, cost the FGCU men’s and women’s basketball teams one home game apiece with conference schools.

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