If we’ve learned anything as a nation over these past few months, it is that Americans can be grouped into one of three categories:
A) You enjoy the din of fake crowd noise
B) You do not enjoy the din of fake crowd noise
C) You are Indiana University football coach Tom Allen
No, Allen doesn’t care one way or the other whether artificial cheers and jeers are pumped into stadiums across the country. He’s thinking about other things, like the effect that (mostly) empty stadiums will have on Big Ten games this fall.
Consider it one more wrinkle in an abbreviated Big Ten season that is sure to be full of them.