Big Ten Conference presidents and chancellors voted Tuesday to postpone all fall sports seasons, including football, amid the coronavirus pandemic with the hopes of playing in the spring. "All the decisions we would make during my tenure here will always put the mental and physical health and wellness of our student-athletes at the center," Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren told Big Ten Network. "We just believed collectively there's too much uncertainty at this point in time in our country to encourage our student-athletes to participate in fall sports. https://www.espn.com/college-footba...urces-big-ten-pulls-plug-fall-football-season
It sounds like the Pac 12 is going to follow their lead too. Bummer, this was really going to be OSU's year!
Big Ten and Pac-12 become the first 'Power Five' football conferences to postpone fall sports due to COVID-19 - but officials remain hopeful they can play the season in the spring of 2021 The Big Ten and Pac-12 voted to postpone the upcoming season with the hopes of playing in the spring. No other 'Power Five' conference has done so yet The decision to postpone the season comes amid concern that a rare heart condition known as myocarditis could result from players contracting COVID-19 The other four 'Power Five' collegiate football conferences have yet to cancel their respective seasons, but that could all change by the end of the week President Donald Trump has been encouraging officials to proceed with the 2020 season, arguing that the players were healthy enough to survive infection The postponement also impacts several other sports as well: men's and women's cross country, field hockey, men's and women's soccer, and women's volleyball https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...conference-postpone-fall-sports-COVID-19.html
College football is a professional business, no different than any of the pro leagues with the money generated and the revenue that coaches and schools depend on. Maybe its time to take level of football private. How is it that a football program is more vulnerable than students attending classes on campus and parties etc. If its liability they are concerned about what about students or anyone else that gets it, can they sue? How does someone prove they got covid at a certain place when they could catch it at home depot? Maybe its the right thing to shut it down? The what about next year?
Did this contribute to schools canceling it? Crazy world we live in where a president asking for something may lead to millions of people not doing that.
