Coaches, athletic administrators and doctors in the Big Ten have several plans to organize a football season, adding one that would start the league as soon as Thanksgiving weekend.
The convention is in the early stages of a confusing procedure that also affects transmission partners and potential impartial sites, the Associated Press was told by a user with direct knowledge of the convention discussions.
The user spoke Friday under anonymity because Big Ten did not make public their efforts to have a football season that begins in autumn or winter overdue. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel first announced that Big Ten was contemplating an imaginable start to the Thanksgiving season.
Big Ten announced on August 11 that it would postpone its fall football season due to game considerations, the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pac-12 and some small meetings followed its example temporarily.
Since then, Big Ten and freshman commissioner Kevin Warren have faced support and criticism, adding a lawsuit filed through 8 Nebraska players that the resolution overruled.
Any plan will require the approval of the rectors and rectors of the universities, and the Big Ten will only be played if the safe landmarks related to the coronavirus, such as transmission rates, the capacity and availability of verification, and the accuracy of verification, are met in the 11 states that are in the 14 schools of the league.
“If they are met, that’s when they’ll come back,” the user told AP.
Several coaches, in addition to Ohio State Ryan Day, have already said that the faster the Big Ten starts a delayed season, the better. Day approved since early January and this is under consideration, the user said.
One option is to play in dome-shaped stadiums throughout the Midwest, adding Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Detroit, AP told a user familiar with discussions on condition of anonymity.
The user said that using unbiased sites can help broadcast partners televise games and help potential game headaches in the winter.
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