Additionally, the WIAA plan, as it currently stands, is far too bare-bones.

After having all summer to come up with multiple contingency plans for whatever the climate might be in early August, all the WIAA could offer was to change the starting dates on a calendar.

There is no announced plan in place for when the season will end, if there will be any sort of state championships, or what teams should do if they cannot play sports this fall because of local ordinances. There isn’t even a set of strict guidelines for what level of person-to-person contact is acceptable at a practice or game — just a loose set of guidelines proposed in mid-June by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As a result, after months of waiting to hear the fate of the fall season, coaches and athletic directors across the state are left waiting still for further guidance.

I understand that, given the fast-changing nature of the coronavirus pandemic, preliminary discussions the WIAA had in late May likely would have changed three or four times before the firmer plans they made now. Maybe constant changes would have been more confusing than staying silent.

But I think if the WIAA had been a bit more transparent in its plan of attack from the get-go, it would be easier to stomach changes on such short notice.