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Ah well so. The President is now involving himself with the Big Ten's decision to cancel fall sports, thus forcing this site to consider whether he is likely to have any impact on the situation. Here's a video of the president saying that people were throwing bags of soup at police. It seems unlikely this man will have any positive impact on the situation.

Is there a situation? Dan Patrick has a source saying that the Big 10 may reverse course and try to start up October 10th:

DP Gives an update on his Big Ten report: "Why October 10th? That's the latest they can play and still be in the Playoffs." pic.twitter.com/ULl5vXqYIE

— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) September 2, 2020

There's a lot of hedging in this item above, and other Sources are dumping on it pretty hard. Pete Thamel:

To say multiple sources denied the notion of the Big Ten playing immediately would not be strong enough. The sources heartily laughed at it. The notion of playing around Thanksgiving is in embryonic discussion, and there’s a desire among coaches to start as early as possible. But “immediately” is in another universe, especially with multiple Big Ten teams not even having players on campus right now.

Dan Patrick says this source was the same one who was out in front of the Big Ten's cancellation, but that resulted in a report of a 12-2 vote of some variety which apparently did not happen. I'd put Thamel's cadre of sources ahead of Dan Patrick's solitary, already wobbly one. Likelihood of an October surprise: ~1%.

Man I bet Kevin Warren thought this was going to be a cushy gig. Instead everyone's furious at him for other people's votes and he has to get on the phone with a [redacted] and listen to it blather on about all the strokes it didn't have and how antifa bought all the mulligatawny because it's foreign.

[After THE JUMP: presidential debates should just be Jeopardy! Fact.]