Reports: NCAA Division I Council Voted to Approve Voluntary Football Workouts Starting June 1

Written by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)

According to Yahoo!Sports Pete Thamel and multiple other reports nationwide, the NCAA Division I Council voted to approve a June 1st start date for voluntary workouts for football and men’s and women’s basketball .

Sources: The NCAA Division I Council voted to approve voluntary athletic activities in football, MBB and WBB to start June 1st and go through June 30th. There had been a moratorium on that through May 31st. Other sports will be acted on on a later date.

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) May 20, 2020

The smoke around this story started when Dave Biddle of Bucknuts.com the 247Sports Ohio State reported that Ohio State players were told that they could report to Ohio State’s football facilities on June 8th.

The removal of the moratorium, does not guarantee that every school will go back to practice at the same time. “This doesn’t necessarily mean a rush back to campus for those three sports,” Pete Thamel wrote “as those decisions will be made in concert with state government, local government, conference and university officials.”

In a report from CBSSports.com’s Dennis Dodd published on May 19th, West Virginia University president Gordon Gee, who is a member of the 40-person NCAA Division I Council said, “we need to learn to dance with the pandemic rather than being fearful of it," West Virginia president Gordon Gee said. "We have moved from 'The Hammer,' which I call where we just locked everything down, to what I call 'The Dance.'"

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.