re: Dennis Dodd- Big Ten expected to approve Oct. 17th start

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They're mostly in closely contested battleground states with Democratic governors for whom the decision to play football will mean an admission that Trump was right on that topic.

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And that's true. Which is exactly why Kevin Warren pushed so hard on an entire conference into cutting it's own budgets. That's why we're at this point. The man used to love to give an interview about how he was going to swing an election.

I was not in the room, of course. But I bet he came at those presidents hard and fast - and that's all it took to make them fold. He probably threw some shite out there about being first to the decision.

Then the SEC was a solid "No - we'll play". That's all the ACC needed to hear. Then those two conferences were all the Big 12 needed to hear.

But I remember how this went down. Kevin Warren thought he could play "Domino Theory" and shut down Division I football. He had the PAC 12 in his pocket, he knew the Big 10 was waffling, and he was sure the ACC would shut down if everybody else did.

He just didn't figure on the SEC saying "No, we'll play". Even though, if you'll wind the tape back, you'll see all the sports media - including ESPN the loudest - running op-ed after op-ed about how the NCAA issued guidance to not play ... and also crying like a rat eating onions about how football needs a commissioner to get a handle on these conferences.