It's a shame for every player considering the draft that they're making their decision without any concrete evidence of whether or not a season will be played. If something goes awry in the next 40 days and the SEC postpones the fall football season, which is always a possibility, it just seems cruel to force Pons back to a school that would seem increasingly unlikely to play ball this winter.
Yeah, it's an unfortunate situation, but everyone is equally affected by it, and just the idea that we are attempting to have a season is refreshing. It sucks for these kids, but it also sucked for kids who missed their high school graduation or had their high school and college athletic careers interrupted and/or ended by storming the beaches of Normandy or being dropped into combat in Vietnam. It could be worse for these kids, today. Matter of perspective, I guess. This is the lesson I have tried to teach my kids who are simply bummed because they can't start school in person.
And in the end, the decision to return was solely Pons'. He could have remained in the draft and taken his chances. If he had doubts about college basketball, he had options.