After observing the power grab last week by the Big Ten and Southeastern conferences in regard to the College Football Playoff, a college administrator passed along the following quote from philosopher Antonio Gramsci:
“The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
This pithily sums up the purgatory college sports currently occupies, with amateurism limping off into the graveyard but a replacement model not yet brought into existence. The vacuum is filled with toxicity and turbulence, as everyone lunges for what they can get to stabilize their own fiefdom.
