Big Ten is back, the organization showed wednesday morning after its unanimous vote.
The Council of the Ten Great Presidents and Chancellors (COP/C) has followed vital medical protocols, adding daily antigenic tests, advanced cardiac screening and advanced data-driven technique for competition practice/resolution. to resume the football season from the weekend of October 23-24, 2020. La resolution was based on data presented through the Back to Competition Working Group of the Big Ten, a functioning organization created through COP/C and Commissioner Kevin Warren to achieve some transparent collaboration and process. “
Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports reported that Big Ten aims for him to play eight games in 8 weeks and that the Big Ten Championship Game is scheduled for December 19. Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports noted that the calendar will allow Big Ten to participate. in school football playoffs.
Wetzel also reported that the existing plan is for Big Ten games to be played on campus without enthusiasts other than the families of the players present, that would possibly change. Big Ten provided key points on protective tests and precautions:
“The Big Ten will require students-athletes, coaches, coaches and others in the box for all practices and games to go through daily antigen verification. Trial effects must be completed and recorded before each practice or game. Students-athletes who test positive for coronavirus through daily point-of-contact (POC) verification would require a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to verify the result of the POC check.
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“All students-athletes who are positive for COVID-19 will want to go through complete cardiac tests to come with laboratories and biomarkers, an ECG, an echocardiogram and a cardiac MRI. After a cardiac evaluation, students-athletes must obtain permission from a university-appointed cardiologist for school number one. Cardiac clearance target for students-athletes who are positive in COVID-19. The previous one that a student-athlete can return to the gaming festival is 21 days after a positive diagnosis at COVID-19. “In addition to approved medical protocols, the 14 Big Tens identify a cardiac record to examine the effects on positive athletes for students in COVID-19. The record and related knowledge will attempt to deal with many unknowns related to heart problems manifestations in elite athletes who are positive for COVID-19. “
When the big ten first announced the postponement of all fall sports, the convention was expected to hold football in the spring, if any this season. The Big Ten for the possible loss of long-term wages.
Big Ten players and their parents were overwhelmingly in favor this season. A coalition of players led by Ohio State Quarterback Justin Fields launched a petition asking Big Ten to play the season. The petition generated more than 300,000 signatures.
“We, Big Ten football players, as well as school football enthusiasts and enthusiasts, are calling for the Big Ten Conference to promptly restore the 2020 football season. Allow Big Ten players/teams to do so for themselves if they want to play or retire this fall. Allow Players/Teams of the Big Ten who do not play an autumn season to do so without penalty or repercussions.
“We need to play. We believe that protection protocols have been established and can be maintained to alleviate considerations on exposure to COVID-19. We who deserve the right to make decisions about what is most productive for our fitness and our future. “Don’t leave our hard paintings and sacrifices in vain. “Let us play!”
Fields and the state of Ohio reacted to Wednesday’s announcement on Twitter:
let’s go!!! https://t. co/9OVkhXXkWg
The Big Ten’s drive to play in the fall began to accumulate last week, as the conference medical subcommittee showed evidence that rapid-response antigen testing can limit player exposure.
“It’s another mild year than it was five weeks ago,” a convention source told Heather Dinich and Adam Rittenberg of ESPN.
Informed resolution leaves Pac-12 as Power Five’s only convention to play football this season.