In July, when the Patriot League announced it was canceling fall sports, Navy men’s soccer coach Tim O’Donohue remained confident he could piece together a quality schedule.
Navy, along with service academy rival Army West Point, was granted an exemption by the Patriot League to play games during the fall semester. That was important because varsity athletics helps fulfill the physical mission of a United States service academy.
As time went on, and more and more conferences elected not to participate in fall athletics, the ability for Navy soccer to rebuild its schedule became more difficult.
“There were not a lot of options out there.