What does the Morehouse decision mean?
While most of the HBCU sports community was still wrapping their head around Bethune-Cookman's departure from the MEAC to the SWAC, and the MEAC press conference featuring Dr. Dennis Thomas and Howard University president Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick responding to questions about the survival of their conference, Morehouse College chose an eventful Friday morning to announce they were going to suspend their fall sports for the upcoming season . Football and Cross Country were the two sports impacted. Talk about a Friday news dump. It turns out that Morehouse would be the first HBCU, possibly the first school in NCAA Division I, II or III, to make such an announcement before the start of the new athletic calendar year. The decision to do so was surely not an easy one, nor was the letter written by President David Thomas, Ph.D. Dr. Thomas cited a concern for the health and well-being of students, as well as the community, maintaining a safe campus while hosting spectators and visito