A word about whether the recently postponed Big Ten football season could resume early could come tonight, confirming the largest number of venues in 2020.
Nebraska President Ted Carter gave the impression of verifying the news of the resumption of Big Ten football on Tuesday, after Carter got stuck discussing the factor with a hot mic.
“We’re about to announce Huskers and Big Ten football tonight,” Carter said in a verbal exchange with Bob Hinson, director of the National Strategic Research Institute, according to Omaha KETV-7 television, who had photographs of the hot mic incident on his website.
LISTEN TO HOT MIC: “We’re going to announce Huskers
Carter later clarified his comments at an Omaha station, KLKN-TV, suggesting that they had been taken out of context.
“I think he took some context,” Carter told KLKN reporter Yousef Nasser. “All I’ve said is that there are paintings and I’m still cautiously optimistic, like everyone else, that we can locate when to play. safely. “
The convention reportedly listened to medical experts in recent days to resume competition, after postponing all fall sports in mid-August due to COVID-19-related issues.
The one of a rebooted season, so deep in the classic fall sports calendar, remains as unclear as if the league were planning to reboot, but with the ACC and Big 12 seasons underway, and the SEC expects it to continue shortly, Big Ten has a style to make football at least viable in the existing public fitness climate.
I mean, there would be no challenges. Several Big Ten schools are lately dealing with COVID-19 disorders across campus, similar to the return of academics during the fall semester. even the general quarantine of the campus.
However, it is imaginable that the path of the Big Ten to football may take a public turn today.
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