Sally Jenkins strikes again on the question of just what college is for:
The Big Ten and Pac-12 made the commendable decision to proactively postpone [fall sports] until January for exactly this reason. Wholesale carve-outs for football while reopening was unpalatable and unfeasible, especially at land-grant institutions with enrollments of 40,000 or more. But their critics and coaches continue to caterwaul like spoiled Little League brats. Bleacher-baying parents demand the Big Ten reverse its decision, and coaches plot to play anyway behind the backs of their presidents. Their only thoughts are for the prodigies they live through. [WaPo]
Bravo!
The truest words spoken about this whole deal were uttered by a former first lady on Monday night, with a hammer-on-the-nail sentence. The return-to-play debate at the Power Five universities is merely reflective of fractured, selfish policies throughout the country. But it’s somehow especially angering and disheartening to see it at so many of these schools, which, as Michelle Obama said of the nation, are “underperforming not simply on matters of policy but on matters of character.”
So libertarian in their nature, too. “Me, me, me!”
Jenkins has my admiration.
