I today's Skully it discusses how the petition that Fields is behind has more sway than you'd think, at that the issue of the Big Ten postponing Fall sports may be solved in the court of public opinion.

On this forum there has been a lot of coverage around UNC (really the ACC as a whole) and other schools that are in conferences preparing to move forward with Fall sports running into increasingly severe COVID outbreaks. They seem to be trending towards an inevitable postponement/cancelation like the Big Ten.

However, if the Big Ten is trending in the opposite direction and does end up reversing the decision and at least allows football to be played...how will that look?

Currently the B1G made the first move and if all the conferences end up following the B10 looks like a leader that had player safety first and can spin it as a positive (whether one agrees with that or not is another story). If the B1G reverses course and we have football this fall would this make the conference look like the helicopter parent of D1 CFB? That could be used against the conference.

However, what if the B1G caves to the pressure they are receiving from players, parents, coaches, and apparently even other admins at schools...and reverses their decision then has to later postpone the season yet again because they realize it can't make sense. All of the flip flopping could also hurt the conference image.

Would it be beneficial to wait and see how the other conferences move forward and hold the current position, or risk waffling around making multiple decisions?