We may finally get some answers on the Big Ten football saga in the next few days.
Presidents and chancellors representing the league’s 14 institutions are planning to convene within the next week, possibly as early as this weekend, to vote on the next steps for a return to competition, reports The Chicago Tribune’s Teddy Greenstein.
The group voted, 11-3, to postpone all fall Big Ten sports on Aug. 11. And while the nature of this next vote is unclear, it is presumed that it would help chart the course for when all fall sports could resume, not just football.
But football has gotten all the attention in recent weeks, after the league said its decision would “not be revisited.” A group of eight Nebraska football players filed a lawsuit against the Big Ten on Aug. 27 seeking to reverse the decision, while parent groups at several league schools, including Michigan, have formed to do the same. Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh marched with Michigan parents and players Saturday in Ann Arbor in protest of the conference’s decision, declaring “Free the Big Ten.”
Greenstein’s report comes as University of Nebraska president Ted Carter told Lincoln, Nebraska, radio station KLIN 1400-AM on Wednesday that the Big Ten’s Return to Competition Task Force, of which Lincoln campus chancellor Ronnie D. Green, athletic director Bill Moos and football coach Scott Frost are a part of, is “putting together some plans that the presidents and chancellors will vote on very soon.”
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The Big Ten is also facing pressure from politicians, including president Donald Trump, who’s tweeted about the conference twice in the last 10 days. Trump and Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren had a phone conversation on Sept. 1, with both parties calling it “productive” but not disclosing details of the discussion.
Then, on Tuesday, Michigan’s speaker of the House, Lee Chatfield, and eight other Midwest legislators, all Republican, sent a letter to Warren and the 14 league presidents and chancellors asking the conference “to reconsider the decision to cancel the football season.”
The Big Ten offered a written response to MLive on Wednesday, saying “the letter reflects that we all want the same thing, which is for ‘sports to continue safely.’ The conference will continue to work with the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors (COP/C), as it always has done, to identify opportunities to resume competition as soon as it is safe to do so.”
While the college football season got underway last weekend, the Big Ten is one of two Power-5 conferences (along with the Pacific Athletic 12) and four Football Bowl Subdivision conferences (Mid-American, Mountain West) to have postponed their seasons with hopes of resuming play in “the spring.”
Wednesday night, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez, also a member of the Big Ten’s Return to Competition Task Force, announced that the school’s football and men’s hockey teams would shut down workouts for two weeks after a recent spike in COVID-19 cases on campus.
— MLive’s Matt Wenzel contributed to this report.
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