College Football: How close are all conferences to returning this fall?
By John Vogel
Launch details of the Big Ten
The Big Ten is officially a go, according to a press conference with several top officials in the conference and at several schools in the league. They announced on Wednesday morning that the league would be starting back up the weekend of Oct. 23-24 and that the conference would be playing at least an eight-game schedule — all in the conference.
Immediately, certain members of the media called it the “darkest day in conference history,” ignoring the several sex abuse and assault scandals that have happened over the last couple of decades in that conference. The press that the Big Ten has taken for every decision that they have made had been brutal, and you have to wonder how this will affect the long term goals of the conference — in recruiting and everywhere else.
The conference players and coaches have fought hard to get back on the field — and it’s all coming to fruition. People have to be happy with the results.