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Boogeyman or Answer Man, Big Ten straddling the fence with attempt to deal with issue of tampering in college sports.

At some point, the Big Ten and SEC have to figure out messaging. It’s always in the delivery. It’s the difference between being the boogeyman of college sports , and the answer to everything.

Case in point: the Big Ten’s decision to ask the NCAA for a suspension of tampering rules . The clown show: Trump college sports meeting turns into dog and pony show In-depth: Unlimited transfer portal 'sucking life out of college sports. ' Ask man who ignited it Shocking, of course, on its face.

One of the two super conferences of college sports — the perceived reason (fair or not) for the ills of the now eroded amateur model and the speedway straight to professional sports hell — advocating for cheating. It’s absurd, and should be roundly laughed out of any serious sports association. Much less one changing by the day.

But look closer at this idea, and see what the Big Ten is trying to sell. The conference of Jim Delany — the legendary former commissioner who once declared the Big Ten would simply go back to non-scholarship football if pay-for-play became a reality — actually has a plan to find some order in the chaos of the player procurement process. They’re not trying to end tampering by suspending it.

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