ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM 75 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY TUESDAY | AUGUST 11, 2020 Leach: SEC hasn’t decided ‘whether it’s the dog or the vehicle’ on playing 2020 football season ing a potential fall League, who’s been happily Starkville braces for economic impact if conference scraps play season. playing all along, I’m not sure BY BEN PORTNOY hopeful the SEC and coaches and hope we get the chance to “I mean, I that it does.”
[email protected] around the league would be in share it with everybody around think I’m proba- While Leach’s words are favor of playing this fall. the country.” bly not supposed sure to garner attention, the If first-year Mississippi State “Right now college foot- Citing how British Premier to say anything, landscape of college football head coach Mike Leach has his ball hasn’t quite figured out if League soccer has thrived but I’m not a big has shifted by the minute over way, the Southeastern Confer- they’re the dog or the vehicle throughout the COVID-19 pan- fan of it,” Leach Leach the past days and weeks. ence will play football this year. and whether they’re going to demic, Leach argued that oth- said of the Big Late Sunday night, some As reports surfaced Mon- stay,” he said. “I wish there ers have been able to weather Ten’s impending decision. “If of college football’s brightest day morning that the Big Ten was more clarity to that. We’re the storm while still playing we are going to cancel I think stars, including Clemson’s is close to canceling its fall all waiting to see, and we’re sports.