Big Ten endured a week from hell. Kevin Warren decided to suspend fall sports early in the week. The news shocked many people, but most people understood if there was a good reason why it occurred. Things have fallen apart for the Big Ten from there. The number of things that have gone wrong for the Big Ten is incredible to watch play out. It is like they’re falling out of a tree and hitting every branch on the way down. Because the Big Ten foolishly canceled versus delaying or postponing, they’re in a very sticky situation where the only answer might be bringing back fall sports. Here’s a timeline of things that went wrong.

Let’s start with the reason they wanted to cancel. For starters, they cited a concern about myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart valve. Big Ten cited a medical study that was ripped to fucking shreds by a heart doctor at the University of Michigan with zero stakes in the game. How can you defend this study when multiple cardiologists are saying it is bullshit? That seems like a bad place to be if you’re the Big Ten.

Players and players’ parents are rebelling against the decision too. Justin Fields, Ohio State’s quarterback, and the most notable Big Ten player created a petition that has nearly 250,000 signatures. Fields will be doing interviews (If Allowed) all day tomorrow. Football parents at Iowa, Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, have all said they want their kids to play and feel safer with their football teams. Adding more credence to that thought, Oklahoma did not have one positive test for weeks with their football team together. When they left for a week, they came back with nine positive tests. Parents are willing to move their kids elsewhere and for future years, this is a bad look to piss off mothers and fathers.

Lastly, and arguably the biggest news was the announcement of the SalivaDirect test being approved by the FDA. The salvia test is a rapid spit test that will get results quickly, 90 percent effective, and very cheap. It was made so people could go back to school. But sports teams all over the country will start using it. The spit test can also help stop the spread early versus the delay we’ve seen with tests in baseball. This is the ultimate trump card and puts the Big Ten in more of a bind.

Warren needs to swallow this pride and go back to the drawing board with university presidents. It is time for him to figure out how to have a season, do it safely and try to spin this story in a favorable direction. This is Warren’s first major decision as commissioner and it went as well as the Bay of fucking pigs. People will forget that if he can do the right thing and let the kids play admitting he overreacted at the moment.

Charlie.