(09-16-2020 01:15 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-16-2020 01:02 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  

(09-16-2020 11:42 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-16-2020 11:30 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(09-16-2020 09:38 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Game. Set. Match.

The SEC, ACC, and Big 12 got it right and the B1G and Pac got it wrong.

While I realize this is basically an opinion board, this is one of those decisions for which there is no "right" or "wrong" answer, either for conferences or individual schools.

Though I agree with the tenor of your remarks, I can't help but hear the voice of an Ivy educated relative who lives off of the goodness of his family because his self importance has rendered employment moot, and who can't mechanically keep any equipment, vehicles or appliances in good repair, but yet feels he has the right to tell everyone else who is providing for him how they should live, and when one of them proves him wrong he always ends the conversation with "there is no right or wrong answer for any individual". It seems to be a great dodge for responsibility and an easy out for those who want to tell everyone else how they should live when their own lives demonstrate their faulty decision making and inability to manage.

Not everyone who walks down the darkened ominous alley in the bad part of town as a shortcut is going to get jumped or worse, but those odds shouldn’t dictate why we walk down it anyway. So, why take it at all? Isn’t that the core of risk assumption and appetite?

Colleges don’t need football. They simply don’t. That isn’t Ivy League talk, it’s practically every other college and university in the country except those in D1 FBS, and even there it’s not unanimous.

It’s a concept that’s as over as a fart in church, and even I don’t like it, but it is what it is. Let the pro’s play because it’s what the NFL only does. Colleges have enough on their plates, and I don’t want to have to fund them for their mistakes.

I don't disagree, but this will be the road less traveled. Bureaucrats, and that is what many academics are, resist massive changes to the status quo. They will tweak and tweak and ignore and stall, because big money donors and the exposure they get for enrollment from televised sports is too much of their current business model and they fear the unknown more than they fear the obvious.

They quickly cancelled in a CYA move. Its surprising they would reverse such a move. Puts them much more at risk in a lawsuit. But maybe its more of the same. They were afraid of criticism if they played and now that everyone else is playing, they are afraid of criticism if they don't.