Posted on 08/19/2020 3:58:46 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Randy Wade and other parents of Big Ten college football players want answers about why the league postponed the fall football season so early. They're going directly to the source.
Wade, the father of Ohio State star defensive back Shaun Wade, is planning to visit Big Ten headquarters in Rosemont, Illinois, on Friday morning. He's flying to Chicago on Thursday from Florida and expects other parents of Big Ten players to join him and seek specifics from league commissioner Kevin Warren.
"How many petitions must there be for the Big Ten to actually look into this?" Wade told ESPN on Tuesday. "We only have a certain amount of time to correct this, so we need to come together and show more unity and just make them uncomfortable, make them come out of their shells and give us some answers to some questions and hopefully rewind back and open things back up."
Parents of players from Ohio State, Iowa, Nebraska, Penn State and other schools recently have written letters to Warren, asking for details about the league's decision to postpone. Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields started a #WeWantToPlay petition Sunday that has received more than 268,000 signatures. The Big Ten is aware of the petition and the letters but has yet to comment publicly or meet with the players or parents.
(Excerpt) Read more at espn.com ...
Won’t matter to me...I ain’t going to any games, or watching.
The parents are realizing their future meal tickets are in jeopardy.
‘Won’t matter to me...I ain’t going to any games, or watching.’
so glad we know this...
I find it funny they wanted to boot Nebraska for questioning the decision, till Ohio State did the same
Well that’s stupid. The reason they postponed is they realized if they’re not letting student on campus forcing athletes to pay is admitting they’re not really students and they have to pay them. A concept that makes them way more uncomfortable than anything these idiots can accomplish.
‘The parents are realizing their future meal tickets are in jeopardy.
a few, maybe; for the vast majority of this years seniors, it’s the end of the line for football, and it has been taken from them, and the parents are, well, acting as caring parents do...
‘The reason they postponed is they realized if they’re not letting student on campus forcing athletes to pay is admitting they’re not really students and they have to pay them.’
hmmm...these players are ‘forced’ to play by the fact that they were offered, and accepted, a scholarship to do so...a binding contract, if we ever saw one...
If you’re not making students, including students on academic scholarships, come to class but you are making athletes play you’re admitting they are NOT students.
Legally speaking the parents have no standing to complain about anything.
When I was a college senior I would have been embarrassed as hell to see my parents get involves with the school administration over ANYTHING.
Get that gravy train rollin’!
The liberal college presidents shut down college football in those conferences because they think it will hurt Trump in the midwest.
Could careless what “we know”....
Trump is NOT who people will be angry with. The presidents misjudged. They are angry at the Dem governors.
Those kids have worked their entire lives to be picked up by the pros. It must be heartbreaking watching your kid go through this.
If you don't like it Hit the Road!
They will be told to shut up and wear the damn mask.
Just a handful of OSU players. The Buckeye AD and coaching staff are now toeing the conference narative.
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