Every morning I wake up and wonder where the saga of a lost season is for the state of Ohio and Big Ten football. And every single day, without fail, turns out to be a new development. First, there’s Ryan Day and Scott Frost, who are trying to fight again for their groups. This followed some letters to Kevin Warren and the Big Ten written through football parents from Ohio, Iowa, Penn State, Nebraska and Michigan.
This followed an online petition to overturn the Big Ten’s resolution to postpone the fall football season organized through Justin Fields. Former Heisman and Big Ten Player of the Year finalist also gave the impression on ESPN radio to help drive efforts. And… Not to lose ground, OSU DB’s father, Shaun Wade, Randy, hosts a nonviolent outdoor demonstration at Big Ten’s Chicago offices for Friday morning (time to take a day of Warren’s force).
But it’s not done. Now, we have a highly sought-after source reporting that the state of Ohio is still running the scenes so that five other groups sign up for only one fall season of Big Ten. Jeff Snook, an Ohio State graduate and writer of several books on school football, used his on-stage resources to verify that, despite what has been publicly stated, there are still open-air exchanges and transactions in public view.
He detailed everything in a Facebook post on his profile tuesday night.
The downside is that Ohio State, Nebraska, Penn State and Iowa agree to play a schedule between them, but want two more groups to sign up to join the league. Efforts are being made to convince Wisconsin and Michigan, which have different perspectives among football presidents and administrators.
The season would begin around September 26 and end with a Big Ten championship game.
Obviously, if all this is true, time is running out here, because you will also have to put the arrangements in position to premiere a so-called spring season, so if things do not materialize in the next two weeks, it may happen quietly. towards night.
In any case, there are still steps to take to make The Big Ten groups have a competitive calendar in the fall. So, is there still hope? I think it’s still a big challenge, however, it’s just another log in the chimney of this rolling hell of rewinding and supporting the Big Ten in their resolve to suspend the fall season.
You can complete Snook transcription on the next page.
No matter what has been said publicly, the Ohio state hierarchy has not yet left football this fall.
Sports Director Gene Smith, with the full help of school-elected president Kristina Johnson, has been running the stage for six days to organize the other Big Ten convention sports managers to convince at least five other college rectors to move forward with a 10-season team play, a source near the motion told me today.
In this proposed format, the team would face the other five Big Ten groups that would compete twice, once at home and once on the road, starting on September 26 or October 3. The season would end in mid-December and there. wouldn’t be a big game of ten names in Indianapolis.
On Tuesday night, the source said Penn State President Eric Barron, Nebraska President Walter “Ted” Carter, and Iowa President Bruce Harreld agreed to the new plan. The organization hopes to convince two other universities, adding the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan, to enroll in them.
“They want to go back to Wisconsin and Michigan to move to six schools and make this work,” the source said. “And they have very little time to do it. They want to move forward and achieve it in the next seven to ten days.”
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez, who coached the Badgers from 1990 to 2005, is a staunch supporter of the plan, but has yet to convince UW president Peterson Drew the source said. Michigan athletic director Warde Manual, a former Wolverine player under Bo Schembechler, and coach Jim Harbaugh must also compete this fall, but the school’s president, Mark Schlissel, has so far opposed his efforts. Schlissel, who holds a medical degree, ruled in favor of “player safety” after the big ten announced last week.
“This is not going anywhere unless some Big Ten presidents, such as Michigan and Wisconsin, feel strain from their students, their enthusiasts, and especially their major donors,” the source said. “I sense that many seven- and eight-figure donors in Michigan are very dissatisfied with the resolution of the Big Ten and are pressuring their president to replace their minds. And they can threaten to withhold their money.
“If they can involve six schools, then the other big ten have the option of joining them or taking flight of the season.”
Many school football managers and coaches, adding Smith and Day, among others, have said their players are safer to contract Covid-19 within the limits, protocols, and testing of their sports facilities than they would be in the general population on campus. or in their places of origin.
Several attempts to succeed in Smith on Tuesday night from comments failed.
Smith’s efforts on the new plan were also favored when Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine passed the second-up to football from the best schools this fall, meaning a tough duet from the state governor and the president of the university agreed on the issue.
Sources on Monday night said the presidents of the Big Ten had never voted on the factor before the convention suspended their assembly last week and that it had been announced through new commissioner Kevin Warren that they would cancel the fall season. During the consultation among the presidents, Warren spoke of those who prefer this season to be postponed until the spring. And he repeated one’s mind on the Big Ten Network without delay after the announcement. PAC 12 then canceled its season in less than an hour.
I was told that the next morning, Wednesday, Smith called Warren to see if there was a way for the Buckeyes to play this season and they shot him without delay. Smith then told the media later that day that the Ohio State Department of Sports would take the resolution of the Big Ten to begin preparing for a spring football season. But Smith had not given up saving the fall season, without delay in reaching the paintings by evaluating the interest of other schools in his plan.
Nebraska athletic director Bill Moos and coach Scott Frost also criticized the Big Ten’s decision, which led Warren to publicly rebuke the Cornhuskers’ leadership the next day. That day, the big 12, the CCA and SEC repeated their plans to continue education and their plans to play the fall season. The CCA plans to start on the weekend of September 12, and the Big 12 and sec are scheduled to begin on September 26.
Over the past five days, the parents of players in Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan, Penn State and Ohio have strongly opposed the cancellation of the Big Ten. Many organized and sent letters to Warren’s office. Several others, led by Randy Wade, the father of Ohio State corner Shaun Wade, had also planned to face Warren Friday in Chicago. However, a source said Tuesday that Warren had not yet moved to Big Ten’s Chicago offices from his home in Minneapolis, where he worked as the leading operating officer of the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings until he hired him five months ago to update Commissioner Jim Delany. Training
Johnson, who succeeded former President Michael Drake and “pressed hard” at last week’s Big Ten presidential assembly to maintain the group’s education and delay the start of the season for the start of September 3-5, the Big Ten had only announced six days earlier.
“Gene Smith, to his credit, created this grassroots movement to achieve it,” the source said. “He’s been heartbroken by coach (Ryan) Day and the players, and he’s got the full new president.”
Several resources said that Day almost inconsolable in private, knowing that he had a team potentially as smart as any school football team in recent years. The Buckeyes finished 13-1 in their first full season, losing 29-23 to Clemson in the semi-finals of the school football playoffs in Glendale, Arizona.
There have been many complaints, adding former Ohio State Urban Meyer coach to current Alabama coach Nick Saban, about the most recent Big Ten plan to play football in the spring and fall of 2021. Many of the league’s most sensitive NFL-eligible talents, such as Ohio State Quarterback Justin Fields, and Wade, would probably decide not to participate in a spring season so close to their upcoming NFL rookie seasons. And the lower class would face the burden of betting two seasons over a 10- or 11-month period, depending on when the Big Ten makes the decision to start its spring season.
“There’s no chance,” Meyer said on Big Ten Network last week. “You can’t ask a player to play two seasons in a calendar year. When I first heard this, I said it. I don’t see it come down when I hear that. The body, in my opinion very strong, is not made.” play two seasons in a calendar year. It’s 2000 repeats, and football is a physical and complicated sport. So I don’t see that going down.”
Saban said Tuesday: “I think one of the genuine consequences of this scenario is that if you’re a junior or a senior and you have an NFL score, will you play in the spring? Or he’s going to some kind of JV season.” with many of those third and fourth-year students retiring?
“I don’t judge in any way what someone is trying to do or not to do. But our medical experts here think we can go do that [and] create an environment and see if we can play. And I think that’s what we’re doing, and I think they’ve done a wonderful task about it.”
There is no doubt that if the SEC, as well as the CCA and the big 12, triumph and play this season, and the big ten do, there will be long-term ramifications for the big ten.
“This is the worst nightmare of the Big Ten,” he said. “And Gene Smith is very wise, wise enough to realize how bad it would be in the long run.”
Of course, we will be aware of that as further progress progress progresses.
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