On Tuesday, Big Ten football announced that it would be moving its season to the spring officially. Are we really surprised?
Some things are just inevitable. Death, taxes and now the postponement of the 2020 college football season has to join that list.
While conferences such as the ACC and SEC have chimed in to say that they intend to play the upcoming season, the Big Ten and Pac-12 have postponed their season with plans to start things back up in the spring.
The news was met with some mixed reviews. And by some, I mean a ton of mixed reviews. Players chimed in on both sides of things, saying that the season should go on while others have praised the decision. There are some in the middle, though, wondering how a spring season would even work with another season a few months later.
Fan reactions were a little more extreme.
“Why the heck would they move the season if the players want to play?”
“Big Ten teams should change conferences this year.”
“Players should hit the transfer portal immediately.”
But when I read these types of reactions from fans and players, it makes me wonder one thing: are we really surprised?
We assumed that the season was going to be cancelled for months and there’s a relatively strong chance that the ACC, Big 12 and SEC will follow suit and move their season to the spring like the Big Ten, MAC, Mountain West and Pac-12 have already done. Losing conferences by the day, the NCAA would make no sense to continue its season this fall.
When COVID-19 cancelled the NCAA Tournament in March and it didn’t improve enough by the summer, it seemed inevitable that the college football season was next.
Stop acting surprised, folks. We expected this.
Just look forward to an action-packed spring.