Eight days after the NCAA postponed its fall sports championships to the spring, Conference USA did the same with every sport except football.
For UTEP, that means soccer and volleyball, which at one point were set to start by the end of August, are now hoping for a spring reboot. Neither C-USA nor UTEP had any idea what that meant for cross country.
The NCAA’s decision last week meant fall sports would not crown an NCAA champion, making C-USA’s decision to follow suit some what predictable.
"As time has gone by, an erosion of our schedule in the non-conference - where soccer ended up with two non-conference matches left, volleyball were holding onto two and we lost those as well - at that point I wasn't sure it made sense for us to hang on here," UTEP athletic director Jim Senter said.