The Starved Elephant wrote:
lease wrote:
You're conducting a virtual workout. A student sprains an ankle, or has a seizure--no school trainer there. HUGE liability.
I really don't see where liability is coming from. You technically have duty, but how has the duty been breached by hosting a virtual workout? You have cause-in-fact, but where is the proximate cause? Yeah, there's no trainer there, but here's the thing: you CAN'T have a trainer there. If a kid gets hurt, there's absolutely nothing the coaches or schools could do to help. How could they be negligent in providing medical care when they can't even be in the same place?
Unless you're suggesting that hosting a remote workout is negligent in and of itself.
If they don't have the remote workout then they are not opening themselves up to being negligent... so, yes, that's why... they don't want the potential liability... per the NCAA, all sports are now officially 'off-season'.
Not saying that's a reasonable position... it's just what they are doing.