Thursday began with one of the NCAA’s top medical advisors comparing the current state of college sports to the sinking of the Titanic, ending with NCAA President Mark Emmert officially announcing that there will be no bankruptcy championships in 2020 will be.
Emmert’s announcement was significant, but also expected. The NCAA had previously stated that if 50 percent or more of eligible teams in a particular sport in a division cancel or postpone their fall season, there will be no NCAA fall championship in that sport. Between all fall cancellations on Wednesday and Thursday, that threshold was crossed for fall Olympic sports and for FCS football.
It is an important step towards a fall in which FBS football, the money cow for so many Power 5 universities, is the only sport that is attempted to be played. That would be an optical nightmare for university sports as a whole, and it could potentially create legal problems for a model that is proposed on the idea that …
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