These are certainly unique and challenging times that we are living in.
Our world changed in so many ways after the events of 9/11. We went from feeling safe to a sense that trouble could always be lurking around the next corner. Safeguards were put in place and, by and large, we have seen nothing to rival the terror that gripped the United States as happened on that fateful Tuesday morning in September 2001.
The year 2020 has produced a different set of challenges and difficulties. The Coronavirus produced a worldwide pandemic that is showing few signs of stopping any time soon. At the same time, incidents of racial inequality have poured gasoline on tensions that have been rising in our country since its beginning nearly 250 years ago.
Sports is supposed to be the toy section of life. It’s where we go for a diversion from the everyday problems that trouble us, our family and our friends. Our website, Bucknuts.com, is built around the passion Ohio State fans have for the Buckeyes.
In all honesty, however, it is quite apparent that the 2020 college football season – and the fate of an Ohio State team many believe could be a national championship contender – is hanging by a thread. Recent spikes of Coronavirus cases across the U.S. have called into question whether it’s safe for 18- to 22-year-old men to be playing a heavy contact game for the entertainment of fans, who would largely be watching miles away via television.
On Monday, YahooSports.com’s Pete Thamel opined that there is “virtually no chance” there will be college football this fall.
Last week, the Big Ten took the dramatic step to announce its teams will play no nonconference opponents during the 2020 regular season. Rather, the conference plans to unveil a new 10-game schedule for each school. Kevin Warren, who just replaced Jim Delany as the conference commissioner, revealed the plan last Thursday.
I look at this decision by the conference as a last resort. The next step after playing just a conference schedule, to me, seems to be not playing a season at all. Warren admitted as much last week.
“This is not fait accompli we will have sports in the fall,” Warren said. “We may not have a college football season in the Big Ten. We wanted to make sure this was the next logical step.”
Warren added, “Today is an interesting day, to say the least. There were a lot of hours that went into these decisions.”
OSU athletic director Gene Smith was direct in his take on the current climate.
“I’m really concerned,” Smith said. “When you look at the behavior of our country, in May we were on a downward trajectory. Now, if we’re not the worst in the world, we are one of the worst in the world.”
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