<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Get The Picture]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://blutarsky.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Senator Blutarsky]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://blutarsky.wordpress.com/author/blutarsky/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[“There is no playbook for&nbsp;this.”]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re wondering why I reacted to the news that the SEC presidents are soon to vote on an opening day for football players to return to campus <a href="https://blutarsky.wordpress.com/2020/05/14/the-presidents-are-going-to-take-a-vote-in-the-sec/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as I did</a>, maybe you should read <a href="https://www.si.com/college/2020/05/14/college-football-2020-season-ncaa-future" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this Ross Dellinger piece</a> asking a number of college conference commissioners and Notre Dame&#8217;s Jack Swarbrick how the 2020 season could unfold.</p>
<p>As you go through it, ask yourself if there&#8217;s a consensus for doing much of anything right now.  I didn&#8217;t see it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s good that they&#8217;re talking with each other regularly.  As I keep saying, it&#8217;s good that they hope for a football season.  But there&#8217;s no obvious course of action at present, for the simple reason there&#8217;s still much that is uncertain and unknowable.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t understand what the SEC presidents appear to be moving towards.  They don&#8217;t have any special insight right now.  Nor is it as if they&#8217;re a bunch that&#8217;s proven themselves to be especially gifted in large scale decision making, other than trying to make as least as much money as their Big Ten counterparts do.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to urge them to roll the dice if you&#8217;re an average fan wanting the game you love.  It&#8217;s a lot harder if you&#8217;re the person who might have to look a parent in the eye (or that parent&#8217;s lawyer) if you guess wrong about the timing of your decision.  But there&#8217;s all that money to consider, too.</p>
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