Ohio State football: Fans won’t care about 2020
By Ryan Stano
If Ohio State ends up playing football in the Spring instead of the Fall, fans won’t care about the 2020 season at all.
2020 has been about the worst year that anyone could have imagined. The pandemic has ground normal life to a standstill. There are still so many things that people can’t do like they used to. According to the Big Ten, playing football is one of those things.
According to them, Spring is the most viable time to play football. That robs Ohio State, clearly the best team in the conference, a chance at a national title. If football is indeed played in the Spring, Ohio State fans won’t care about the result of any game in 2020.
Spring football would essentially be junior varsity football. None of the top players from any of the teams would be playing because they would all be getting ready for the NFL Draft. There’s no chance any of those top players could win a national title anyway so it makes sense for them to leave.
Ohio State has been one of the teams that have been fighting hard for a Fall season. Like I wrote yesterday, there’s really only one chance left for the Big Ten to have a reasonable Fall schedule. They risk losing generations of fans if they don’t reverse course.
Fans are already at their wit’s end with the conference’s decision making and their lack of transparency. Football in the Spring without any top players and any hope of national recognition would only make fans angrier and have them root for someone else.
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It’s a big risk that the Big Ten is taking. They are risking losing generations of fans over their stubbornness. It may end up being considered the biggest blunder in college football history if they end up getting this wrong.