The fall sports included in this announcement are men’s and women’s cross country, field hockey, football, men’s and women’s soccer, and women’s volleyball. The Big Ten Conference will continue to evaluate a number of options regarding these sports, including the possibility of competition in the spring. Decisions regarding winter and spring sports will also continue to be evaluated.
I’m not optimistic 
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Commence Josh Christopher to the G League
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Feel like this has been pretty inevitable for a while so no one should be terribly surprised
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There is time to figure out a bubble or pod solution for CBB. The utter incompetence of the conference doesn’t give me confidence they will.
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Not entirely surprising to see but still this could be the first time on this whole pandemic that somebody has had the foresight and leadership to do something like this so far in advance. I think this is needed. We need to come to grips that this is going to be with us for a while and hopefully this give the CBB world the kick in the pants it needs to start having this discussion NOW to come up with a plan and not just kicking the can down the road for 2 weeks at a time.
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I don’t think the expense of creating and maintaining a bubble would dovetail rhetorically with the argument the money isn’t there to compensate kids.
It would also beg the question of “what exactly is college if the only thing they are willing to shell out to do in person is sports?”.
Major universities across the nation are taking as few in-state kids as possible to make ends meet, cutting tenured faculty and shifting the instructional burden to adjuncts, and shuttering satellite campuses as government funding goes down and down.
Spending money to play basketball in a pandemic would not, in a nutshell, be a good look.
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I think it’s inevitable that B1G sports are done until 21-22 school year
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The inherent tension of “student athletes” in the NCAA is finally coming to a head. Like it or not, these kids are supposed to be students first. Putting an entire league in a bubble won’t work because it would completely lay bare the inherent tension between student and athlete in the major revenue sports. Not to mention the unworkability in the non-revenue sports.
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The entire financial college education model is under tremendous scrutiny. The big hurdle these college face is the remote learning strategy and the potential downfall of the failing revenue stream. College sports is just one aspect, what happens when the dorms are empty and no one is on campus? Can any school financially justify the value of remote learning? Better put every dollar into finding a vaccine.
I’m not quite sure how to link tweets in, but Brendan Quinn just tweeted something insinuating that Dick Vitale’s tweet about Xavier Tillman staying in school actually helped Tillman in his decision not to stay. Crazy stuff lol.
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The service Dylan uses for the forum is awesome. Just copy/paste the link and it does the rest for you!
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- Thank you, didn’t realize it was that easy haha
- Crazy that Dickie V’s tweet actually ended up meaning something.
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It’s the most relevant he’s been in decades!
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