The Council of the Ten Presidents and Chancellors of the Big Ten announced wednesday that it had voted unanimously to resume the season from the weekend of October 23-24, 2020, resuming a resolution last month to postpone the season until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Big Ten first announced in early August that the convention would not play football this fall, as it would involve “too much uncertainty, too much risk,” and the convention commissioner noted that the resolution would “not be reconsidered. “
“You have to pay attention to your medical experts,” said Kevin Warren, the Commissioner of Big Ten, on August 11. I am convinced that we have made the right decision. “
The announcement of the postponement was met with strong rejection from many players, coaches, parents, fans, as well as President Trump, who believed the Big Ten were being too cautious.
On Wednesday morning, the Big Ten issued a saying that they “adopted vital medical protocols that added daily antigenic tests, advanced cardiac screening, and an advanced data-driven technique for practice/competence decision-making. “
Players, coaches, coaches and others in the box for practices and games will want to go through the Covid-19 tests.
Any player who is positive will be prohibited from participating in the matches for at least 21 days, and the groups must avoid education and the festival for at least one week if the team’s positivity rate exceeds 5%.
The ACC and the Big 12 opened the 2020 season last weekend. However, 3 Big 12 groups and two ACC groups have had to postpone their matches due to positive Covid-19 controls. The SEC’s schedule begins later this month, and LSU coach Ed Orgeron said Tuesday that most of the players on LSU’s roster have already been inflamed with the coronavirus. “I think most of our players, not all, but most of our players have gotten stuck,” Orgeron said, although he added that he hoped that would mean “that he may not be caught anymore. ” Earlier this month, Wayne Sebastianelli, director of sports medicine at Penn State, said that scans of the core of the ten athletes who contracted the coronavirus showed that “between 30 and about 35% of the core muscles” indicated symptoms of myocarditis. As a component of their advanced protocols, the Big Ten announced Wednesday that all players who test positive will go through full center screenings, adding labs and biomarkers, an ECG, echocardiogram and cardiac MRI. “The knowledge we will collect from the heart record and checks will make primary contributions to the 14 facilities in the Big Ten as they screen for COVID-19 and verify to mitigate the spread of the disease in larger communities. ” said Dr. Jim Borchers, Chief Medical Officer of the Ohio State University Team and Co-Chair of the Medical Subcommittee of the Back-to-Competition Task Force.
7%: A previous publication this month through the National Bureau of Economic Research found that less than 7% of the profits generated through the National Collegiate Athletics Association (more than $8 billion a year) reach male football and basketball players through scholarships and life allowances.
“Good news: TEN BIG FOOTBALL IS BACK. They all participated. Thanks to the players, coaches, parents and all the representatives of the school. Happy season! It is a great honor for me to have helped !!!”Tweeted President Trump on Wednesday.
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