MId-South

[Football] NAIA is moving football championship to spring

Friday the NAIA Council of Presidents voted to move football's 2020 championship to spring 2021. This comes on the heels of Tuesday's COP decision to shift all other fall championships to a spring competition."We are making decisions that are in the best interest for all involved," said GC Director of Athletics Brian Evans. "Since March we have been taking the information and assessing the safest practices for student-athletes, coaches and staff. It has been the most difficult five months in my tenure, but at every step I've believed we've done what was right."Both announcements allow for autonomy for NAIA conferences in regards to how regular season competitions are conducted for all fall sports – men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball and football. In the coming week, Georgetown College and other Mid-South Conference member schools will meet to decide on one of three options available to each sport – play the fall regular season, split the regular season between fall and spring or move all regular season games to the spring.