Miami University Hamilton found out yesterday that they would be joining a growing list of softball programs canceling their 2021 season due to “safety” concerns of student-athletes due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. What’s puzzling however is while the Miami-Hamilton program seems to be shutdown, the same safety concerns don’t seem to be an issue at Miami University’s main campus in Oxford. The Flagship’s Division I Softball Squad opens their season this Saturday on the road in Starkville, Mississippi. University and Athletic Administrators either are oblivious on how to make one department and their COVID protocols/testing work while another does, or it is simply economics/want-to that has shut the softball program down at Miami-Hamilton for the 2021 season. While the small independent athletic department at Hamilton doesn’t hold the clout the large DI Department in Oxford does; can treatment of the athletes be dwindled down to simply the haves and have nots during this challenging time for athletics in general? Is safety of student-athletes at one campus so much more important than those at another in the same university system? Probably not. But it is more likely that financially one set of student-athletes are more important than another set.
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