The Big Ten announced Tuesday’s postponement of the upcoming fall football season, the first primary sports convention in the United States to take such a step because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The convention said the resolution was based on several factors, adding the medical recommendation of a group of infectious disease brokers.
The resolution comes amid heated debate over whether schools are in a position to return to the game amid a fitness crisis, with President TrumpDonald John Trump’s memo: Fear overshadows hope on the first night of the Republican conference. Trump’s TrumpArray the GOP organization seeks to refute the Democratic narrative on Monday’s UNO MORE night, joining those who are calling for the season to pass as planned.
“The physical and intellectual fitness and well-being of our student-athletes has been in the midst of all the decisions we’ve made regarding the ability to move forward,” Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said Tuesday. “Over time and after hours of discussion with our Working Group of the Big Ten on Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Committee on Sports Medicine of the Big Ten, it has become very transparent that there was too much uncertainty about the potential medical dangers to allow our student-athletes to participate in this competition. fall.”
Other fall sports, including men’s and women’s cross-country, box hockey, men’s and women’s soccer, and women’s volleyball, will also be delayed. It is not known whether the seasons will be positioned at a later date. The Big Ten said in a press release ruling the resolution that it was conceivable that sports would continue as planned in the spring.
“Everyone related to the Big Ten Conference and its member establishments is determined to get everyone back to the festival as soon as it’s safe to do,” Warren said.
The new coronavirus led the NCAA to cancel men’s and women’s basketball tournaments this year and abandon spring sports. But the meetings seemed to be in a position to move forward with the football season in the fall under changing conditions. The Big Ten originally scheduled a schedule of 10 games just for the conference.
However, considerations remained on the protection of players who live near their respective campuses while practicing their sport. Dozens of Pac-12 players have written an open letter calling for greater fitness policies and rights for athletes to make the season a reality. Saturday’s Mid-American Conference was the first convention to abandon its fall football season.
The resolution was followed by reports that the university presidents of the 14 schools representing the Big Ten were meeting to determine whether a season would be played amid the pandemic. Presidents voted 12-2 to cancel the season Monday, according to The Detroit Free Press.
Some of the sport’s most prominent players before this week arranged a public crusade for a football season in the fall, as long as the voices of the athletes are taken into account and good physical care is provided. One of the demands is the formation of a union representing university athletes.
As the momentum gained ground on social media, Trump tweeted his Monday.
“Student-athletes worked too hard for their season to be canceled,” Trump tweeted, sharing the hashtag #WeWantToPlay used by players starting the campaign.
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Before the resolution of canceling the season was official, several Big Ten apprentices expressed their opposition. Nebraska football coach Scott Frost said at a news convention that the university had pledged to play “no matter what,” suggesting that the school would have other functions if the convention were canceled.
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh also issued a letter advocating for a season, according to MLive.com. In the document, Harbaugh stated that “this virus can be controlled and manipulated by the facts.”
The Pac-12 convention is expected to have an assembly on Tuesday to determine whether it will progress with a season, CBS Sports reported. Other primary conventions, adding the SEC and CCA, have given no indication of delaying their season.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said in a tweet Monday that he wasn’t sure a football season could be played amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’ve never had an FB season in a COVID-19 environment. Can we play? I don’t know,” he said. “We haven’t stopped trying. We support, teach and care about student-athletes every day, and we will continue to do soArray … every day.”
Updated at 3:52 p.m.
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