The cancel-conferences have effectively imposed their own (NCAA) Death Penalty

The B1G and PAC-12 have taken a disaster and, instead of mitigating fall out, they’ve multiplied it. I don’t really see those two conferences playing football this spring. There are too many logistical hurdles that I don’t think they can realistically overcome. Furthermore, if they do play most players who are draft eligible will likely opt out to prepare for the NFL combine. This includes Heisman hopefuls like Justin Fields. ? To make matters worse, a spring season will likely resort in a shorter fall season for those two conferences allowing COVID-19 to adversely affect not one but TWO football seasons. Finally, no matter what they do now, the recruiting fall-out from this shake up will be insurmountable. I expect it will put the B1G and Pac-12 years behind the rest of D1, maybe even a decade. By canceling their fall seasons they are effectively sentencing themselves to their own (NCAA) Death Penalty, à la SMU 1987.