Free Press sports writers Shawn Windsor, Chris Solari and Rainer Sabin make sense of Big Ten's blockbuster decision to cancel 2020 college football. Detroit Free Press
It wasn’t what anyone wanted.
Not the Big Ten presidents, who made the painful decision to cancel fall sports.
Not new commissioner Kevin Warren, who warned anyone who would listen the past week that the possibility of no football this fall remained real.
Not the athletic directors, who now must deal with the financial and emotional fallout within their programs and now have even more difficult choices ahead.
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Not the coaches, whose lives revolve around planning this time of year and whose well-compensated livelihoods depend on the sport.