This was a dumpster fire. A train wreck. A masterclass in how not to publicly handle a crisis.
The last six weeks have not been kind to the Big Ten. The conference's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic—and specifically who and how the difficult decision to postpone the football season was made—has been an endless public blunder filled with bouts of misinformation, parent protests, lawsuits and highly exposed indecisiveness from the decision-makers within the conference.
The initial decision was final, according to new Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren. It "will not be revisited," he said in a letter to the Big Ten community published August 19—a line that is now cringeworthy reading less than a month later
On Wednesday, that decision was revisited and reversed.