The Big Ten and Pac-12 have postponed their fall football seasons and will go out to play in the spring.
He reported on Monday in this area that any of the meetings were going in that direction.
In addition to football, the fall included in the Big Ten ad is the men’s and women’s cross-country, box hockey, men’s and women’s football and women’s volleyball.
The Big Ten have been playing football every single fall since 1896, while Rutgers has been playing each and every fall since 1872.
“The physical and intellectual fitness and well-being of our student-athletes has been at the center of all the decisions we’ve made regarding the ability to move forward,” said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren. “Over time and after hours of discussion with our Working Group of the Big Ten on Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee, it has become very transparent that there is too much uncertainty about the potential medical dangers to allow our student-athletes to participate in this competition.
“We know how vital the delight of student-athletes can be to shape the long history of talented men and women at the Big Ten Conference. Although this wisdom made this resolution difficult, it did not confuse it. While I know that today’s resolution will be disappointing in many tactics for our thousands of student-athletes and their families, I am encouraged and encouraged through their resilience, insightful and insightful mind and participation through our conversations to date. Member establishments are committed to all participating in the festival as soon as necessary.
Not all Big Ten schools agree with the decision. Nebraska has done one that turns out to imply that he’s going out to play anyway.
“We are very disappointed with the Big Ten Conference resolution to postpone the fall football season, as we have been and are still in a position to play,” the school said in a statement.
The Pac-12 news was first reported via Brett McMurphy of The Stadium before the league announced that it had made a unanimous decision.
“All Pac-12 presidents and chancellors perceive the importance of this resolution and the sadness it will create for our student-athletes, coaches, staff and all our fans,” said Michael H. Schill, president of the University of Oregon. “Ultimately, our resolution was guided through science and a deep commitment to the fitness and well-being of student-athletes. In fact, we hope the Pac-12 can return to the festival the new year.
“The health, protection and well-being of our student-athletes and everyone involved in Pac-12 sports has been our number one priority since the onset of the existing crisis,” Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said. “Our student-athletes, our fans, our staff and everyone who loves school sports would love to see this calendar year as planned, and we know how disappointing it is.
Scott added: “We know this is a difficult day for our student-athletes, and our mind is with them and their families. We have made it transparent that all your scholarships will be guaranteed and that, as a Conference, we strongly inspired the NCAA to grant them one more year of eligibility.
Regarding the spring, Penn State head coach James Franklin advocated for gambling in the domes in the spring, noting in ESPN’s “Get Up”: “We have the option to use the domes in the Big Ten… we can use the domes in Detroit, Minnesota and Indianapolis and do the Big Ten on weekends in those places from the point of view of the weather.”
Still, ESPN’s Booger McFarland believes that the most productive customers will not participate in the spring.
“If they play a spring season, you won’t see the most productive prospects,” he said in NFL Live. “Anyone who thinks they have the chance to be selected in the draft, whatever the first, time or third circular pick of the draft, would possibly not play, so do we have a valid school football season this spring? It will replace the way you watch budding school sports.”
Finebaum called the other 3 Power-5 meetings – the SEC, the CCA and the 12 grand – “free for all … As if three of the five could do this job. The school football playoffs are in all five meetings.”
Finebaum also quoted a SEC source who said, “We plan to play.”
The Big Ten, CCA and SEC published their schedules last week.
“There are so many signs combined,” Finebaum said. “Here’s a schedule, we’re starting to play and now we’re contemplating canceling. It’s pretty unimaginable how bad this game is, how dysfunctional it is, but they get what they deserve. There was no leadership at the top, there was no collaboration. »
Saturday’s Mid-American Conference, the first in the primary school football leagues to cancel the fall season.
Several Division 1 meetings have already canceled or postponed fall sports, adding the Ivy League, America East and Atlantic 10.
Last week, Divisions II and III canceled the fall championships, while UConn the First Division I scheduled last week to cancel its football season.
The commissioner of the Big 12, Bob Bowlsby, told the AP that no resolution had been made on the season, but admitted that the prospect had improved.
“Are we in a better position than we did two weeks ago? No, we’re not,” he said.
Bowlsby told AP that there is a growing fear of myocarditis, a inflammation of the center that has been discovered in some COVID-19 patients and can be a long-term complication even for young and healthy people.
“In the next 72 hours, school football will come to an end,” an industry told Sports Illustrated on Sunday.
This publication was updated with the Big Ten statement.
I’m a basketball and tennis expert who collaborates with the New York Times, NJ Advance Media and the country’s newspapers. I’m also the one with two books and one
I’m a basketball and tennis expert who collaborates with the New York Times, NJ Advance Media and the country’s newspapers. I’m also the one with two books and an award-winning filmmaker. My family circle lives in Manhattan with our dog.