We’ve had a flurry of glass half empty news today when it comes to the optimism of having Ohio State, and college football in general for 2020. The Mid-American conference canceled its 2020 football season, there have been several reports on social media of everything being scrapped, and the Big Ten released a statement on pausing the progression to pads for all teams’ fall camp efforts.
It’s that last big of breaking news that we might have more on a bit later. According to sources close to ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg and Heather Dinich — and first reported by Pete Thamel — Big Ten presidents are meeting today to discuss things further. It was reportedly a meeting already scheduled, but there are rumblings about some institutions’ leaders arriving at a decision to cancel the football season.
There is no context for what the meeting is about, but one can only assume that all of the news of the day has moved things closer to shelving the season. That being said, if 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we can only take things one day at a time and continue to be hopeful.
From Big Ten release: "We understand there are many questions regarding how this impacts schedules, as well as the feasibility of proceeding forward with the season at all."
Seems like only a matter of time, folks.
— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) August 8, 2020
We’ve had prospects of the season head into cloudy conditions before, only to emerge with more positive news and actions. Maybe it’ll be the same here.
However, if I were a betting man, I’d say things are not headed in the right direction. Read into that as you will. We’ll, of course, stay on top of things here.
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