Questions outnumber answers for PIAA

We’ve been stumbling around in the dark for months now, looking for some sort of guidance. There’s been little to be found.

We want answers about this coronavirus pandemic and no one at the top seems to have them.

We want to go out and play and are told we can’t.

Frustration is challenging boredom as America’s new past time.

Athletes and coaches across the state are awaiting word on when they can return to the field, and how, and there are no instructions included with this game.

About 50 athletic directors from across Pennsylvania gathered on Zoom Friday morning hoping to get some direction from PIAA chief operating officer Mark Byers.

“We need help navigating this,” one Berks athletic director said.

They got none.

The PIAA is waiting for answers from state officials, who are waiting on word from health experts, who — painfully, we’ve come to realize — don’t have the answers, either.

They’re still trying to figure out this COVID-19 thing themselves, the way NFL defensive coordinators are still trying to figure out Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson.

The PIAA is expecting Gov. Tom Wolf’s team to deliver guidelines next week, but what form that will take, and how precise that will be in dealing with the issues that athletic directors and coaches face, remains an open question.

The governor’s report is unlikely to quell the myriad questions we have. That will fall on the lap of the PIAA. It will be up to the state’s high school governing body to digest the report and produce something resembling a playbook.

That, too, may be shy a few pages. There are sure to be more issues than there are solutions. This COVID thing is

TOM BOLAND — MEDIA NEWS GROUP We still have few answers about how football can safely return at the high school level.