Also, ask yourself what Jim Delaney would have done if he had still been in charge. It’s really too as he wasn’t still in charge to get the conference through the pandemic.that is not correct.
Warren, during the covid meetings and on what to do with the football season, actually represented the 14 Athletic Directors and 14 head coaches, who all wanted to have a wait and see approach. None of these 28 individuals wanted to rush into the decision of canceling the football season. Yet, that is exactly what happened; the B1G was the first to cancel the football season and Warren, for some reason, assumed the other Power 5 conferences would follow his lead. Instead, the SEC, ACC and Big 12 commissioners correctly took that wait and see approach.
Bottom line is this: Warren did a horrible job representing the 14 Athletic Directors' and 14 head coaches' wishes when he had meetings with the 14 B1G university presidents/chancellors. A good leader would have known that a rush to cancel the football season was not the correct decision and would have made sure it never happened. But it did, and the B1G was the laughing stock of college football.
Also, when Warren canceled the 2020 football season, he said the decision was final. What a joke that statement was.
I remember a lot of people at the time saying because he was new that Warren didn’t have the power that Delaney had to set a path and convince the presidents to get on board and follow it. But I’m not sure that’s true. Obviously we’ll never know for sure but I think Warren really thought canceling was the best plan, and I definitely think he expected other conferences to follow him and was surprised when they didn’t.