Since announcing on August 11th that fall sports were being cancelled as a precaution during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Big Ten Conference has spent the past month being rightly pilloried by, well, just about everyone in the college sports realm for how they’ve handled this situation.
The B1G withheld information about their decision making and clearly didn’t have all of their member institutions lined up together as Ohio State, Nebraska and others loudly disagreed with the decision publicly. There have been parental protests outside of the B1G offices outside of Chicago, there have been protests at stadiums around the conference and there have been lawsuits filed to get the conference to spill the beans about what actually is happening.