MAC's sellout to ESPN sends wrong message on player safety

EnlargeIf you are a University of Toledo football fan, its newly released 2018 schedule is perfect.

A blockbuster visit from Miami (Fla.). A get-your-tickets-now date with Bowling Green ... on a Saturday ... the first week of October. ZERO weeknight home games in November.

Cue the heavenly choir.

“It’s a fantastic schedule,” UT athletic director Mike O’Brien said.

Completely agree. Probably because it is not my body and brain — empty as it is — on the line.

Come on, you didn’t think we’d let the Mid-American Conference off easy, did ya?

The league’s sellout to ESPN — and its jumble of late-season, mid-week games — assures it will stick it to its two most important constituencies: the players and…