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Column: If Ryan Day were to test positive for COVID-19, who should take over while he’s out?

As hard as we’ve tried to push the global pandemic out of our collective consciousness as sports fans, it has begun to rear its ugly head far more often than many of us would like to admit over the past few weeks. Multiple games from nearly every conference of college football have been canceled for this weekend, and some programs have seen their rosters decimated by infections. Despite all of our hopes that increased testing and Draconian punishments would limit spread amongst teams, it ain’t happening, especially as the wider community continues to act as if the virus is not a problem severe enough to worry about.