Kevin Warren’s open letter officially closes the book on fall football. And it’s time for the rest of the Big Ten to move on.

The Big Ten can stop fighting itself now, right?

Right?

Can we get a peace sign out of the folks in Columbus? A white flag from Lincoln? Some happiness from Happy Valley? Can all the nice people who go to Iowa games get back to waving? Can the looney player parents who talked about going to Chicago to confront commissioner Kevin Warren at league HQ find something more important to protest?

Warren’s open letter Wednesday closes the book on fall football in America’s oldest and richest college athletic conference. The decision made last week—“a gut-wrenching decision,” Warren told Sports Illustrated—is not changing. Fall sports are not happening.

It sucks. It’s also a perfectly logical and defensible position to take, one that Warren very consistently stated all along could end