Dustin Crum was at practice. Quian Williams was asleep. At 10:11 a.m. Saturday, when the world found out they wouldn’t be playing football this fall, two Mid-American Conference players, like so many others, were oblivious.
Then news started to filter through. Crum, a senior quarterback at Kent State, heard chatter during a walkthrough. Head coach Sean Lewis stepped away to check his phone.
Williams, a junior receiver at Eastern Michigan, awoke to a call. It was his dad. He picked up. Dad’s words stirred emotion.
The MAC, Williams learned, had decided to cancel fall sports.