For Frazier, the decision to cancel the season was fairly simple but also "excruciating," he told the Mully & Haugh Show on Monday morning.
"I'm still numb to a lot of the discussions as well as discussions with student-athletes, parents and guardians and colleagues," Frazier said. "It's something that you don't want to go through. But at the same time, I have to balance that with the science and what's going on with COVID.
"It goes back to the science. It goes back to our doctors, our team doctors within the league, our doctors here at NIU, the physicians, the researchers."
The MAC is still considering a potentially modified spring season for sports like football, Frazier said. However, the conference's main goal will be getting back on track in 2021.
In the meantime, Frazier and the MAC reached a decision they believe best protects their athletes.
"(It's) doing what's right," Frazier said. "The timing we're talking about, the issues of uncertainty, the issues of not knowing the long- and short-term effects. The new information coming out about the effect on the heart, the lungs. These are all things that quite frankly you have to safeguard when you talk about permissible activities.
"To safeguard them, to do the right thing is definitely a watershed moment."