ESPN is reporting that Power Five administrators had an emergency meeting today to discuss fall football.
Unfortunately, there is growing concern that football can’t be played this fall due to coronavirus.
Here is an excerpt:
Sources told ESPN that a vast majority of Big Ten presidents have indicated that they would vote to postpone football season, hopefully to the spring. A Big Ten official confirmed to ESPN that no official vote took place during Saturday’s meeting.
“It doesn’t look good,” one Power 5 athletic director said.
The Mid-American Conference on Saturday became the first FBS league to postpone the fall sports season, including football.
Presidents and chancellors of the Pac-12 universities are scheduled to meet on Tuesday.
Several sources have told ESPN over the last 48 hours that the postponement or cancellation of the football season seems inevitable. Many of those sources believed that it ultimately will take a Power 5 conference to move things in that direction, and that either the Big Ten or Pac-12 would probably be the first league to do it.
“Nobody wanted to be the first to do it,” a Power 5 coach told ESPN, “and now nobody will want to be the last.”
A Power 5 administrator added: “It feels like no one wants to, but it’s reaching the point where someone is going to have to.”
