Some Pac-12 athletes aired on a Tuesday after the convention postponing the fall sports calendar, calling the convention “making a random attempt to jeopardize the fitness of school athletes by having a season without a protective order” and postpone the season “without transparency and communication. with affected college athletes.”
The players also called for the formation of a player settlement and said that the convention “had more to do with stifling our ability to organize ourselves and establishing the exploitation of college athletes than with our safety.”
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The Pac-12 will check that the game returns to 2021 if “conditions improve”, which may mean the return of football in the spring.
“The health, protection and well-being of our student-athletes and all pac-12 sports-related have been our number one priority since the onset of the existing crisis,” Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said in a statement. “Our student-athletes, our fans, our staff and everyone who loves school sports would love to see this calendar year as planned, and we know how disappointing it is.”
The Big Ten postponed its fall sports calendar on Tuesday.
University athletes have long been asked to unionize, this has not materialized on a large scale or the efforts that have won floors have been cut. But Pac-12 athletes obviously feel that their most productive interests are not well represented in the relationships with the conference:
“Throughout our appointments with Pac-12 leaders, the rights of college athletes have been taken seriously through convention leaders. When we request to be represented through an attorney at our meetings with convention leaders, we were told that this would be allowed. Fitness protocols . We no longer have confidence in control of the Pac-12.”
As noted through CBS Sports’ Barrett Sallee, “the organization required the Pac-12 to maintain one year of eligibility, provide access to medical treatment, aid facilities, and food for athletes who remain on campus; and that sports-related activities remain an option until conference-wide protection criteria are created.”
These requests were largely addressed and identified in the Pac-12 statement which stated that the autumn timetable would be postponed. But it turns out that a much broader confrontation is brewing in the Pac-12.
Conference cancels autumn football season due to coronavirus pandemic, will be recorded for spring (Stadium)
The convention will be released in the spring of autumn due to considerations similar to the coronavirus pandemic (Yahoo)
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