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 space out every other rack and the six-feet-apart guidelines were so strict that not even a spotter was permitted.