At first glance, the concept is undeniably American: parents have many miles to fight for their sports children. The event, which focuses on diametrically opposed interests in gaming school football and the fight against COVID-19, is scheduled for Friday at Big Ten’s headquarters in suburban Chicago.
I talked about this progression on Wednesday when I talked to a doctor I know.
“Are you disappointed that schools are forcing your youth to play football in a global pandemic?” She asked.
“No, they’re disappointed that their youth can’t play football on a global pandemic.”
We’ve been watching parents who have been obsessed with their children’s games for years, so it literally shouldn’t surprise us that the day has nevertheless come when mothers and fathers take to the streets to complain about the unthinkable. They are really angry because their children are not allowed to play a game in which social estrangement is highly unlikely, the deadliest pandemic in the country in a hundred years. When you have the option to watch your kids play a game, even though some will make a lot of money one day, and make sure they are as safe and healthy as possible, they don’t decide on the game.
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Six weeks after the Ivy League did not play fall sports, and a week and a part after Big Ten and Pac-12 made the same decision, Ohio State football’s father, Randy Wade, plans to lead what he expects to be dozens. other Big Ten football parents protest against the conference’s resolution of postponing football until winter or spring, assuming it is then safe to play.
Wade, whose son Shaun is a much-loved corner of the Buckeyes, said in a phone interview Wednesday afternoon that he had heard of “between 70 and a hundred people” in the last few days at six of the 14 convention schools: Ohio State, Penn State, Indiana, Purdue, Iowa and Nebraska. How many will show up, you have no idea. He’s from Jacksonville, Florida.
Taking advantage of the confusion in some of the maximum non-easy sports departments in terms of leadership, combined with the shortfall of workplace data from the new convention commissioner, Kevin Warren, until he firmly reaffirmed the postponement of the big ten on Wednesday night, Wade jumped into the void to review and repair his son in his general school football season.
Viscerally, that’s understandable. Who is heartbroken by young people and young adults in our lives who have lost sports, musical and school diplomas and much more due to coronavirus?
But at least some of us are saying: we are adults here, and more than 170,000 Americans have died from this virus for which we still have no vaccine, no treatment, no national regulations on the use of masks and social estrangement. So we have to use our brains and pay attention to doctors and scientists and deal with the unfortunate fact that school football has a component of the collateral damage of the virus in many parts of the country.
Some, unfortunately, have the means to do so.
I asked Wade if, instead of protesting in the Big Ten offices, he would protest against President Donald Trump’s policy of doing nothing this fall.
Think for a moment before you answer. “Yes, I would actually protest against Donald Trump, I would,” he said. “And the politicians of my state and the local government, however, Donald Trump is affecting them, so he’s also a little crazy. To make a change, yes, I’d protest them.
I guess Wade and other disgruntled Big Ten parents would be silent without delay if CCA, SEC and Big 12 did what they do and also postponed their fall sports. It’s about FOMO: the worry of missing. What parent needs their child to be absent when other people’s youth are still playing, until those schools finally, inevitably and belatedly, also disconnect the plug?
Social media criticism has hit the Big Ten for its inability to renegades within it, yet no one knows the chaos as the CCA right now, with UNC and Notre Dame tiptoeing around epic epidemics on campus, while the institutional courage to sustain itself. their heads, don’t their hearts fix and just prevent autumn sports for smart this year.
Wade said he “probably wouldn’t protest” if the other meetings were postponed. Whether in youth football, club basketball or the top grades of school athletics, the festival between parent games who take their children’s game too seriously is what reigns, even in those difficult times. This terrible pandemic shows a lot of things. Some of them we already knew.