The beginning stages of the Stanford Cardinal student-athletes’ return to campus have begun. While other schools in the state are struggling with recent news of Under Armour dropping their brand contracts — yeah I’m looking right at ya Cal and UCLA — Stanford has been able to quietly and productively bring their student-athletes back to campus amid the current ‘re-outbreak’ of coronavirus cases in the southeast.
So, with the quiet news of the re-opening of campus, what do we know? Well we do know that the state of California was behind the rest of the states in re-opening and while that may have put the big four teams in the Pac-12 behind the proverbial eightball, it did also mean that Stanford and the rest of the California teams were able to formulate their plans for re-opening perhaps a bit better and more cautiously than others.