Although April 1 has already started, several major sports governing bodies, including the NCAA, are planning to vote later today to determine if they will redesignate today as March 32.
An alternate proposal is to designate the entirety of the 2020 calendar year as April 1, thus creating a perpetual spring for all the impacted student-athletes. All potential competition, practice, captain's practice with and without captains, out of competition competitions, anyone-initiated athletic activities, and voluntary mandatory fun would then be able to take place strictly on April 1 for the rest of the year.
This would apply to spring sports only (and possibly to whoever would have appeared in the Final Four of basketball, which would have taken place April 4 and April 6), which would avoid any varying interpretations of "spring season," and make for a perpetual April 1 while eligibility is extended, making date calculations moot.
The effort is an attempt to nod to the absolutely bonkers series of events that have affected sports in 2020, where it feels like honoring April Fools is either the daily status quo, or worse.
"We know it is already almost over, but we couldn't figure out if we should designate all of the rest of 2020 as April 1, or just skip it somehow," said NCAA Associate Director of Communications Michelle Brutlag Hosick. "We're waiting on the SEC to tell us what we are going to decide to do - or it might be CBS, same difference."