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The 2020 College Football Season

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Stolen from the Justin Fields thread.



At the request of several parents of Big Ten players, Mars has written a two-page proposal entitled “Action Plan to Mitigate Concerns and Legal Risks of Playing Fall 2020 Football.”

Mars said he doesn’t know how much of a role the liability issue factored in the Big Ten’s decision because of the conference’s lack of transparency.
 
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The volume of open discontent has been fairly breathtaking, and seemingly indicative that Warren wasn’t prepared for the amount of eggs that would be broken. The first-year commissioner was dealt a ridiculously difficult hand, and he was admirably consistent in saying all along that the league might well not play this year.

Then it happened, and everyone flipped out. And since then his job has become much more difficult.

Warren did not articulate the reasons for the fall cancelation well on Aug. 11, and since then has been unsuccessful at getting the conference to coalesce around that decision. Day has continued to tweet “#Fight” over the past couple of days, alluding to playing in the fall, including once Monday afternoon in support of Fields’s petition. That was followed up by a tweet from Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith that said, “LOVE MY COACH!!!”

Smith is as entrenched and respected as any athletic director in the country. He’s also been a reliable part of the NCAA deliberative body, serving on countless committees over the years. He is, in many ways, The Establishment. And if The Establishment is this comfortable with publicly stoking conflict, that’s a problem for Warren.
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For the record, bureaucratic inertia says there isn't a chance in hell they ever reconsider their decision, but if all of this pressure forces something like a change at the top OR transparency at an unprecedented level, I'm all for it.
 
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