“Most of our schools will already be back in session.”

As in recent press conferences, Singleton made it clear that the league’s plan allows for flexibility in scheduling moving forward, as COVID-19 information continues to change on a daily basis.

“That was the plan from the very beginning – to make it as flexible as possible so that we could continue to move and react to the circumstances and conditions being caused by the COVID virus,” he said. “… We can still make some additional decisions. It lends itself to that.

“But if we start talking about the ‘what ifs’ – we could come up with five or six pages of ‘what ifs’ and have to try to address all of those. We want to address what’s in front of us now, and if we’re forced to change something, then we’ll do that.”

Singleton added that the latest start date for football to be played under the new proposal is Oct. 2 to still have the finals played in early December.

Another change involves the playoff formats for football, volleyball and tennis. Only the top two seeds from each region will earn postseason berths as the number of rounds has been shortened to four – 16 teams instead of the usual 32.