On Monday, President Donald Trump joined a U.S. senator and several coaches in an effort to save school football from a pandemic closure.
There is a hypothesis that two of the five most difficult encounters, the Big Ten and the Pac-12, can simply cancel their seasons. Further east, Old Dominion canceled fall sports and became the first school in the Bowl Branch to break with its league. the rest of the U.S. Conference goes ahead with plans to play.
A Big Ten spokesman said its presidents and chancellors had not voted on sports in the fall until Monday afternoon and that the tough Southeastern Conference has made it clear that it is not yet in a position to close its fall season.
“The most productive recommendation I’ve won since COVID-19:” Be patient. Take the time to make decisions. All this is new and you’ll get more data every day,” said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey on Twitter.” I don’t know. We haven’t stopped trying. “
A growing number of athletes have talked about saving the season with Clemson’s star quarterback Trevor Lawrence among the organization that posts his mind on Twitter with the hashtag #WeWantToPla. Trump threw his help at them Monday.
“The student-athletes also worked to have their season canceled,” he tweeted.
Old Dominion stopped trying. Virginia canceled football and other sports in the fall less than a week after the U.S. Conference drew up a plan to play a football season.
“We concluded that the season – including travel and competition – posed too great a risk for our student-athletes,” ODU President Broderick said.
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh took another position and said the Wolverines proved that the players can be after returning to school.
“I advocate football this fall because of my fondness or our players’ preference to play even because of the events that have accumulated over the last 8 weeks since our players returned to campus on June 13,” he wrote. August 10 that this virus can be controlled and treated due to those facts. “
Senator Ben Sasse, a Republican from Nebraska, addressed the issue of protection in a letter to the presidents and chancellors of the Big Ten.
“Life is about tradeoffs. There are no guarantees that college football will be completely safe — that’s absolutely true; it’s always true,” he wrote. “But the structure and discipline of football programs is very likely safer than what the lived experience of 18- to 22-year-olds will be if there isn’t a season.”
“Here’s the reality: many of you think football is safer than any football, but you also know that you’ll be blamed if there’s football, while you can blame them if you cancel football,” added Sasse, former school president. “This is a moment of leadership. These young men want a season. Please don’t cancel school football.”
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