In Nebraska, coach Scott Frost cited the “carnage and consequences” that may come if the Big Ten cancel next season making a passionate argument to allow the Cornhuskers to play in the fall, and if the convention disagrees, Frost said. the program was “ready for all options”.
At Penn State, coach James Franklin said it is his “responsibility” to help his players “pursue their dreams” and that “the most productive resolution right now is not to cancel the season” yet “delay, seek clarity, build the safest environment for our boys.”
In Michigan, Jim Harbaugh cited “the events accumulated over the more than 8 weeks” since his team returned to campus, adding a long era with no positive effects of coronavirus between players and staff.
“It’s easy, ” said Harbaugh in a statement. “It’s hard. There is evidence that the conduct, field and design of our program have led to these exceptional results.”
And at Ohio State, coach Ryan Day said the Buckeyes “should have all the options” if the Big Ten postpones the season.
“We can’t cancel the season right now,” Day said. “We’ll have to at least postpone it and give us time to keep thinking again about everything that’s going on.
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As the Big Ten season lied toward its cancellation on Monday, several of the league’s biggest names opposed the arguments in favor of canceling the season to offer an argument to proceed as planned, or at least delay the league’s decision.
“If I had a son, I’d need it to play football,” Frost said. “I think this is the safest position it can be, and many schools around the convention probably think the same way, that the safest environment in which we can place those boys is an environment in which they are monitored, monitored, tested, cared for, in case of illness.”
Speaking, the counterargument provided through coaches and multiple players would possibly make a contribution to the presidents of the top ten universities who consider the total cancellation of the next season and opt On Tuesday to wait and buy additional time for the league’s options.
With announcements expected from Big Ten and Pac-12, Tuesday will be a watershed moment in the history of college athletics.
The Big Ten has 3 seconds: cancel the season, delay any resolution or continue as planned. The league has given little indication that the last one is left on the table.
However, the convention can no longer provide the kind of unified front that has accommodated all decisions made over much of the past five months, from the suspension of spring training in March to the resumption of team activities this summer.
Instead, the Big Ten now resembles school football as a whole, with teams at odds on the way forward in the run-up to September and without a genuine solution to handle the fitness and protection problems that play will face amid the coronavirus pandemic.
This dissent may deflect the verbal exchange from the cancellation of the season. The Nebraska Chancellor and the Director of Sports are “determined to play football,” Frost said. According to a report by Cleveland.com, new Ohio State President Kristina Johnson would vote against the cancellation.
Monday’s vocal and public statements what Big Ten coaches have said between peers or in internal discussions at the university since July, adding teleconferences and meetings with college administrators.
The message was amplified through politicians inside and beyond the league’s footprint, adding that President Trump, who said on Twitter: “Student-athletes have worked too hard for their season to be canceled,” adding, “Play school football!”
As a conference, the Big Ten exists at a different time than the maximum Power Five due to the resolution of starting the normal season on the first weekend of September. Other conferences, such as the SEC, chose not to play until the last weekend of the month; the latter were started, which amounts to greater programming flexibility for Big Ten.
This shortened time until the start of the normal season forced the Big Ten to wonder before many other Members of the Power Five if it was possible to play in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. The league’s biggest fear is the growing awareness among universities of possible long-term fitness disorders that may be the result of COVID-19, which adds myocarditis, an inflammation that can inflame and damage the central muscle.
“The medical experts we depend on are the ones who consult our decisions,” Frost said.