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The Debate: Navigating the summer college sports doldrums

Welcome to July. Many view the middle of summer as a happy time with no school and tons of warm weather. Barbecues and pool parties abound. This is the time for family vacations and excitement.

Excitement for everyone except college sports fans, of course.

It has now been three months since college basketball season ended. Football doesn’t start again for over a month and a half. This is truly the major college sports off-season. April is spent digesting what just happened in the NCAA Tournament. May and June complete the basketball recruiting cycle. August will be spent in full preseason mode for football.