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Chris Petrucelli Gives Perspective on Realities of a Fall Season, Travel Concerns and More

Chris Petrucelli had untouched training plans on his desk ready for the day after spring recess. In fact, he had details and outlines draw up for each day of the week his team was scheduled to return to campus back in March.

No one ever returned. None of the plans were ever used.

To Petrucelli, it was a very physical, if not poetic, reminder that there is no playbook for leading a college program amid the coronavirus.

All the normal luxuries associated with college soccer — a set schedule in June, travel arraignments to get players back to campus, even the way preseason workouts are structured — have been thrown into chaos.