The Pac-12 failed its member institutions this football season

We’re in Week One of the 2020 season for the Pac-12, and already two out of six slated games this weekend were cancelled due to Covid.

It has been a seemingly long and torturous past few months for a number of people, especially as we deal with the effects from the Covid Pandemic. For the Pac-12, that is certainly the case as well.

Over the past few months we have seen cancellations and postponements of seasons, and it looked like things were finally getting back on track as the Conference approved a 7-game Football season that would begin November 7.

Arizona Wildcats

All the hype and build up leading into this was positive, especially as we’ve been seeing numerous teams on the East Coast and everywhere else play a football season with few hiccups here and there.

Every player that tested positive, seemingly able to isolate those said players, and play without much distraction.

Well, here we are, not even one full week into the season in the Pac-12, and the Conference has had to cancel two games due to Covid spread.

To say this conference failed in having a season, and adjusting to the Covid Pandemic, would be an understatement.

First off, they delayed having a season while others were playing. Additionally, their restart, once approved, was pushed back a significant amount of time, that it almost seems silly to even have one at this point.

Motivated by greed and a loss of money, the Conference pushed forward to have a season, saying all the right stuff, but not backing it up with action.

With mandatory, frequent testing and player evaluations, and rapid response testing, how were Cal and Utah not better prepared to test and isolate players?

I may be a bit biased here, but if Cal or Utah, and more specifically this Conference followed Arizona’s lead here, we would not only be having a season, but every school would be playing this weekend.

The Pac-12 waited too long to get a season underway in the first place, and by doing so, they were hoping that seven weeks would be enough time to put a decent resume together for at least one team in hopes of making the College Football Playoff. There was zero room for error, and now that is all over.

Once again, the Pac-12 shows it cannot compete on the National Level, and the Leadership is continuing to fail its member institutions.