Non-revelation for today

Well. So now we know, as if we didn't already.

Three schools in the ACC -- Notre Dame, North Carolina and North Carolina State -- have sent their student bodies home and will revert to remote classes because college kids will be college kids and a whole bunch of  'em have already showed red for the Bastard Plague.

The student bodies, however, do not include the football players, who remain on campus to prepare for the upcoming season.

At least one of the three coaches involved has intimated the students leaving is actually a good thing, because it enables the football team to operate in (and here's your operative word) a "bubble."

So essentially they're admitting what's long been obvious about football at Power Five schools. which is it's entirely disassociated from the universities it purports to represent. It operates in a de facto bubble that operates by its own parameters, its own prerogatives and its own mission, which is wholly separate from the mission of the university.

The "bubble" is just actual now instead of conceptual.

Or as a friend of a friend put it most succinctly the other day: Power Five universities are just side hustles for the football and basketball programs.

Yup.