Buried in the NCAA letter this week there was language "reaffirming the MANDATES for a return to play" for football this fall. Not guidelines. Mandates. Everybody has criticized the NCAA for not making recommendations to schools on fall football and leaving it up to each school or conference. Well, it turns out that may not be exactly so. Big 12 comish Bowlsby said either yesterday or this morning that "if we don't play football this fall, we may not play any sports for the 20-21 school year". That would cost the NCAA their primary source of income in the NCAA basketball tourney.
Were the NCAA "mandates" one of the reasons the B1G cancelled their season? Was the statement by Bowlsby a power play designed to make the NCAA reconsider their "mandates" for playing football this fall? Am I reading too much in to what I think was a thinly veiled threat by Bowlsby? At some point one would think that IF ESPN lost college basketball as a result of having some conferences postpone their seasons, there would be some huge pressure on the B1G to reconsider their stance on football. ESPN radio is really giving the B1G hell on the radio.
Were the NCAA "mandates" one of the reasons the B1G cancelled their season? Was the statement by Bowlsby a power play designed to make the NCAA reconsider their "mandates" for playing football this fall? Am I reading too much in to what I think was a thinly veiled threat by Bowlsby? At some point one would think that IF ESPN lost college basketball as a result of having some conferences postpone their seasons, there would be some huge pressure on the B1G to reconsider their stance on football. ESPN radio is really giving the B1G hell on the radio.