RALEIGH, N.C. — We’re only four days separated from the official announcement of the ACC’s new-look schedule, but recent reports coming out that the season might be in question. According to a report from ESPN, Big Ten presidents, after holding a meeting Saturday, are prepared to “pull the plug” on the conference’s fall sports season.
After the news started to trickle out to the college football community, NC State players voiced their thoughts on Twitter Sunday afternoon and evening. Here are some of the latest tweets from Wolfpack players on both sides of the ball.
#WeWantToPlay
Let us play ball!! ????
mask up please. #WeWantToPlay ??
#WeWantToPlay ??
I just wanna play football..??????
We got people depending on us !!! https://t.co/uoIq8CBttt
All my friends and I want to play ????????
The Wolfpack players joined a percussion of student-athletes across the sport, which has been spearheaded by Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence.
“People are at just as much, if not more risk, if we don’t play,” Lawrence said in a Twitter thread. “Players will all be sent home to their own communities where social distancing is highly unlikely and medical care and expenses will be placed on the families if they were to contract covid19. Not to mention the players coming from situations that are not good for them/ their future and having to go back to that. Football is a safe haven for so many people. We are more likely to get the virus in everyday life than playing football.
“Having a season also incentivizes players being safe and taking all of the right precautions to try to avoid contracting covid because the season/ teammates safety is on the line. Without the season, as we’ve seen already, people will not social distance or wear masks and take the proper precautions.”
The Big Ten presidents “wanted to gauge” if administrators of other conferences at the Power Five level — the ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC — would do the same, per ESPN. Citing sources, ESPN said a “vast majority” of Big Ten presidents would vote to suspend the football season, potentially deferring for the spring, but no official vote was held during the meeting Saturday.
“It doesn’t look good,” said one Power Five athletic director, in a comment to ESPN.
While the college football world looks on and continues to attempt to track what the next move will be for the Power 5 conferences, it’s clear that several stars across the league want to play this fall.
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