As the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences cancelled their participation in college football this fall, hundreds of student athletes breathed a collective corona-free sigh of relief.  They can now focus academics.  Yes, quarterback Tyler Jones delighted, “I have always wanted to take CS152, Computer Architecture, but it has a lab and I just wasn’t in town enough.  Also, I can’t wait to take Statistical and Thermal Physics, which will get me the remaining prerequisites I need for Quantum Field Theory, which is da bom dot com and has the best professor ever.  I mean with this much freed up time, I might as well double major!”

Today however, as the Big Ten bowed to pressure, Donald Trump, and Benjamin Franklins, those student athletes will be forced back on the field, leaving their academic aspirations behind, only hoping to fulfill them later in a dedicated masters or PhD program.