It feels a lot like 2010 these days. And 2011. And 2012.
With Power 5 conferences reeling at each epidemiological report, the Big Ten ejecting, the Pac-12 ejecting and the entire thing on the brink of collapsing, we are once again left to dream up super conferences that have about a .0001 percent chance of happening but are incredibly enjoyable to think about nonetheless.
We all know the problems as well as the stakes by now. If you want to boil it down to a single sentence, it’s something along the lines of there’s too much money at stake to bail on the season but to create a bubble and play the season you have to admit the players actually do have some sort of status between amateur and professional.