Ricardo Valerdi is a professor of engineering at the University of Arizona and the UA's faculty athletics representative. He said throughout the pandemic guidelines at different schools lacked any sense of uniformity and there's been a hesitancy to plan longterm, but the NCAA worked with for struggling student athletes to try to blunt the impact.
Valerdi predicted that come August college athletics will have a "somewhat normal academic year," even though some roles and opportunities will still be marked by the pandemic.
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