Posted on 09/16/2020 7:05:19 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
If there’s been a defining theme for this anguished Big Ten summer, it’s been waiting. Waiting for news on the fate of the season. Waiting for answers from a frozen conference office. And, finally, waiting for news on a reversal.
On Wednesday morning, the waiting finally ended. After sources confirmed to Yahoo Sports that the Big Ten will return to play in the fall of 2020, the conference made it official. The league is expected to start the season on Oct. 24, which is scheduled to allow for both a conference title game and a potential spot in the College Football Playoff.
“Our focus with the Task Force over the last six weeks was to ensure the health and safety of our student-athletes. Our goal has always been to return to competition so all student-athletes can realize their dream of competing in the sports they love,” Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said in a conference statement. “We are incredibly grateful for the collaborative work that our Return to Competition Task Force have accomplished to ensure the health, safety and wellness of student-athletes, coaches and administrators.”
The decision has been expected since the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors (COPC) met on Sunday night, as optimism had permeated through the league. But as the days went on and information evaporated, the coaches and administrators around the league were frozen in anticipation.
In typical Big Ten fashion this most muddled of summers, it was simultaneously stunning and not surprising at all when the news leaked out over a hot mic by a Nebraska president Ted Carter.
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President Trump says, “You’re Welcome!”
Did anyone ever think this would turn out any other way? There is a ton of money on the table. Has Michigan’s governess flipped out yet?
Because the science changed! Lol
Undeniable that President Trump fought hard to bring back football.
Joe Biden whined from the sidelines and made a weird YouTube ad about it. https://t.co/qtAdiV9HG0— Andrew Clark (@AndrewHClark) September 16, 2020
Great News: BIG TEN FOOTBALL IS BACK. All teams to participate. Thank you to the players, coaches, parents, and all school representatives. Have a FANTASTIC SEASON! It is my great honor to have helped!!!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2020
Too bad the Pac 10 already surrendered to the Big Media fearmongering.
At least some people still have guts.
They were just sitting on the fence and watching all of the other teams.
Does this leave the PAC-10//Western Virtue Signallers//As the sole group that matters being willing to sacrifice football on the altar of COVID?
(As a native Oregonian, I think that it is time to revert to being the PAC 8 or take the PAC out of the title, although I’m willing to keep Arizona and Arizona state if USC and UCLA are sacrificed for the sake of giving Arizona ocean access—we can even consider a PAC 9 that would include UNLV provided that they retain Rebels as a mascot)
Where’s the media shouting they only care about Wall Street, er, their million dollar revenues when the economy opens???
Tells me the Covid issue is in major decline.
Thanks for answering my question in post 8—I’m stuck in Ontario.
OSU, winless once again.
Pac 10 plays football? jk
Their Alumni and CCP funders got the last word.
Pac-10 are wusses. POTUS should say it. Nothing to lose.
I’m happy to hear this. Kevin was a freshman when I was a senior at the same high school.
PT just won MI.
“Tells me the Covid issue is in major decline.”
I agree 100% and in fact this is way bigger than many would give it credit for being.
How many addicted FReepers will watch now?
Remember, all of these BLM ‘athletes’ hate you.
I’m done with sports. All conservatives should be.
I think you are correct. He probably had it anyway, but this should cinch it up.
They’ll still do the social distancing And mask farce
While I won’t watch, at least it is a signal that things are getting back to normal.
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