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Keeler: If CU Buffs, Pac-12 play football this fall, the gig is up. It’s all about money, not student safety.

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Simple question, Phil DiStefano: Does the tail wag the dog?

The CU Buffs have to decide. You have to decide. Are we an institution of higher learning that also plays football? Or a football program that just happens to have this massive academic wing attached for ballast?

CSU, where the dumpsters won’t stop burning and the lawyers can’t stop circling, bailed on fall 2020 Monday. The Mountain West just joined the Mid-American Conference on the spring football bandwagon. Plenty of good seats still available.

“As the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has altered our landscape,” Rams athletic director Joe Parker said via a statement, “we have always stressed that the health and safety of our student-athletes and community at large is the most important factor driving our decision-making processes.