It’s a very slow Monday for news, but there is one huge item which popped over the weekend: in a statement posted to The Player’s Tribune under the byline “Players of the Pac-12”, said players — or at least a group of them, including big name stars with futures to consider — have issued a set of demands on which their participation in college football this season hinges.
There have been other movements along these lines, but they’ve generally been confined to individual teams trying to affect their relationship with their institution. In this instance, it’s players from 12 different schools telling their conference they’re going to sit out.