In the hours since the Big Ten announced all fall sports teams, including football, will play a league-only schedule this fall – if there is a season – there has been a growing shadow of doubt that there will be any football, any competition this fall, and that this is the first ominous domino to fall.
That may be the case, and clearly Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren balanced his comments Thursday in the wake of the decision, indicating that this is the right move right now for the conference, but all of this might be moot by the time the colleges resume on-campus classes.