As in each and every instance that President Trump has put into the game over the more than 4 years, his motivations for getting the Big Ten to play football this fall are not hard to understand.
Faced with a difficult crusade this fall in which Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin have their chances of re-election, Trump asked Grand Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren for a phone call Tuesday for an undeniable reason: c’ is a win-win for him politically.. Training
If the Big Ten accelerates the time to resume football from the existing January goal, it can claim credit, theoretically helping to lure the swing electorate to its peak states.Campaign.
This has put the Big Ten in the unwanted position of placing a political fixture for the White House, a fact that Warren and the league presidents actually understand.And now that Trump has done what he does: use Twitter to outline the narrative, whatever the real facts: the tension over the presidents of the Big Ten will be immense.
But tension doesn’t pass in one direction.
According to a user familiar with the Big Ten discussions with the White House, who spoke to USA TODAY Sports on condition of anonymity, the convention will provide a number of lawsuits to the White House, many of which are not yet fully trained would surround everything from immediate testing, a touch-up program and medical devices, to resources that would help outdoor play.
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You know, what convinced the Big Ten to play this fall in the first place.
Only then, if the White House accepts and responds to such disorders and viral trends move in the right direction, the verbal exchange about the return of football is possibly around Thanksgiving or perhaps a little early for good.if all this happens, the league’s medical board blesses you and 60% of league presidents approve it.The contribution of the television networks is also taken into account somewhere.
In other words, despite Trump’s tweet Tuesday about “immediately launching Big Ten football” and being “on the subway line,” there are many hurdlees to overcome before the Big Ten works again.In some schools, players aren’t even on campus right now.Even if you announced that you intended to play football as soon as possible, it would probably be mid-October before the groups were really fit to play.
The genuine question is, how much does this “Save the Big Ten” political game value for a president who turns out to be behind in the polls?How far are you willing to go so you can get on the stump in October and boast about saving the state of Michigan-Ohio?Or do you care more about the ghost of moving the ball into the Big Ten season than about doing what’s mandatory to help those schools cope?
Let’s face it. If Trump was as passionate about what school football means for the country as what the Electoral College means for his run for re-election, he would actually have contacted Pac 12 and the other meetings that would be absent this fall.it was just the Big Ten.
And despite a long and well-told history of sports on Twitter as a personal citizen, there is no documented evidence that he was interested in Big Ten football before looking at it as a possible crusader issue.
So it makes sense that the ten Big Ten presidents have some skepticism about Trump’s motives and whether he would keep abreination of the key issues that led the league to postpone the fall season and stay on track.place, they’re opening up to a global punishment if they don’t comply with Trump’s orders (just take a look at the NFL and NBA).
But caught in the middle of a presidential election and a failed implementation of his resolve to postpone the fall football season, Warren has left himself vulnerable to this kind of wild political opportunism.
The president wants votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and obviously believes he can use Warren and the ten Big Ten presidents to get them, one way or another.He wants to be the savior of school football in the states in which he wants to win, which is understandable given that he is in the midst of his current political situation.But for that to happen, it will take much more than a phone call and a tweet.