The saddest thing about UTEP's latest suspension of football is how inevitable it all seems.
Four more people associated with the program tested positive, UTEP revealed Sunday, and the only surprise is that the Miners are going to try to crank everything up again Wednesday.
If reports are correct, that's going to be the day after the Big 10 pulls the plug on its football season, the Pac-12 seems likely to follow, Conference USA's Old Dominion is already out and it becomes easy to see which direction the dominoes are tumbling.
The problem with trying to carry on with football during a pandemic is the sheer numbers.