Now, there are none.

The Mountain West, with its 12 football-playing members, stated at 8 p.m. MT Monday that “effective immediately all organized team athletically-related activities are suspended until at least March 29.”

The issue will not be revisited for at least a week as the nation continues to make changes due to the COVID-19 epidemic.

The conference was the last in the FBS to officially issue a widespread order stopping all athletic activities, updating its statement minutes after Conference USA announced it was suspending spring practices.

The geographic circumstances of multiple states in the Mountain West’s footprint could explain why the league was not rushed to officially put off spring practices. The conference canceled all spring sports competitions Thursday, but according to Johns Hopkins University, as of Monday night, Wyoming had three positive tests for COVID-19, Idaho had five and Hawaii had eight. If those low numbers perhaps led to a bit of a wait-and-see approach on any universal rulings from the league office, the final decision was made easy after President Donald Trump issued guidelines Monday to avoid groups of 10 or more for 15 days.

Air Force was the lone school to have finished its spring practices; Hawaii, Nevada and UNLV had yet to begin. Utah State got in one practice. New Mexico held a scrimmage Friday, and although Boise State had a practice scheduled for the same day, no one from the school would confirm if the team practiced or not, and athletic director Curt Apsey canceled his regular radio segment.

Whether teams will resume practices in April or will be able to start fall camp earlier is obviously unknown, but the Mountain West is in a unique position among conferences. Half of the schools — Colorado State, Fresno State, Hawaii, New Mexico, San Diego State and UNLV — have new head coaches. Certainly, there are much larger issues to be concerned with for now, but those first 15 practices with a new staff would have been very important toward getting on the same page for the upcoming season.

It could be particularly tough for the newcomers in the Mountain Division, which has three eight-win teams returning in Boise State, Air Force and Wyoming, led by the three longest-tenured coaches in the conference. Air Force’s Troy Calhoun is entering his 14th season at the helm, while Boise State’s Bryan Harsin and Wyoming’s Craig Bohl are in their seventh.

Teams will have to get creative to keep their players sharp without hands-on instruction. Many strength and conditioning coaches send workout plans, and staff members will work to keep in consistent contact.

Live reps would have been invaluable for someone like Boise State sophomore quarterback Hank Bachmeier, who now may have to gather receivers on his own or throw back home in Murrieta, Calif., with his brothers Bear, Buck and Tiger. The Broncos need to replace eight of their nine starters on both lines, so any time they get together is a positive.

As if it was not difficult enough to try to figure out what to expect this fall in the Mountain West, some schools may not practice at all this spring, and the half of the conference with new coaches will only get in about half of theirs at best.

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