Briggs: Toledo athletics falls short on coronavirus testing

When the first wave of Toledo athletes returned to campus earlier this month for voluntary workouts, a thoughtful environment awaited them.

Consider a day in the life of a Rockets football player.

To enter the Glass Bowl, he would have needed an appointment, a mask, and everything but the secret password. If his temperature was below 100.4 degrees and he passed a coronavirus screening questionnaire, he would have received a wristband dated and initialed by a university staffer, then joined no more than seven of his teammates for a training session.

He would have removed his mask only during distanced conditioning drills on the field or during his lifts in the weight room, where players were to…