After seemingly unwilling to budge to bringing fall Sports back for months, the Dayton Public Schools Board held a final meeting on Friday to decide if fall sports will be brought back to start practicing or if it was to be postponed until January.
It was approved almost unanimously, which is interesting considering a week ago, it seemed all but a done deal that it would be cancelled.
Just a day after Columbus decided to bring back their sports, DPS decided to join them as they will start practice this weekend.
With it almost being close to a unanimous vote (5-1-1) it was a sigh of relief for the DPS student athletes, coaches, and parents whose tireless efforts kept the heat on the Board and their conscience front and center.
With the votes of Will Smith and others on the board, the students will now start the process of getting sports back during the 2020-21 season. While it wont be the same as normal, it will still give life to a program which, is already deciding to cut hundreds of jobs, and has taken a lot of heat.
While that is a serious issue on its' own, the one thing for sure is that Friday nights are for football. Add to the fact that fall sports are as essential to any student athletes life as anything in this point and time in their lives.
That's why when most of the DPS kids were asked, "Do they want Covid-19?" they immediately said "No."
But in the very next sentence they expressed the fact of risking their health, no questions asked, to play.
"We just want a chance to play," Belmont senior RB Tavon Hardwick stated. Everyone else is playing. We want to play too."
Now comes the hard part.
Can DPS athletes, parents, Faculty, and staff take the necessary steps to keep everything on point during this time of panic?
Everything is riding on it.
Play ball Dayton Public Schools.
But stay responsible.
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