While a decision on a fall football season hangs in the balance, one Big Ten head says the conference will move in lockstep regardless of the result.
Rebecca Blank, chancellor at the University of Wisconsin, told reporters Monday afternoon during a teleconference that the league plans to “move together” collectively, regardless of a pending vote on fall sports.
“I will say we’re all going to move together in the Big Ten,” Blank said. “We’re all going to play or not, if we possibly can. This isn’t going to be a school-by-school thing.”
Blank’s comments come as the Big Ten’s Council of Presidents and Chancellors, a group of 14 school heads, is expected to vote this week on reversing a previously planned postponement. It was reported that the council could vote on a decision as early as Monday, while others have suggested it could take place sometime this week.
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Meanwhile, presidents at both Michigan and Michigan State, Mark Schlissel and Samuel Stanley, both infectious disease experts, have remained tight-lipped on the topic. A Michigan spokesman told MLive on Monday that Schlissel was not available for comment, while Stanley hasn’t spoken to reporters in about a month.
Reliable information on the conference’s plans have been hard to come by in recent days, with reports over the weekend suggesting that real “optimism” was spreading across the league with regard to football. But for that to happen, 60 percent of Big Ten presidents and chancellors (nine) would have to vote to play.
In August, the group voted 11-3 to nix fall competition, citing health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. School heads met again on Sunday, when they were reportedly presented with updated medical information and a proposed football schedule that would begin in October.
Earlier today, sports-talk radio host Dan Patrick, who correctly reported the Big Ten’s plan to postpone fall sports in August, said a vote was planned for Monday afternoon and that the Big Ten was planning to play without Michigan, Michigan State, Maryland and possibly Wisconsin. That would leave a group of eight to 10 schools remaining, with Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio State and Purdue all planning to play.
On Saturday, the health department in Ingham County, Michigan, home to the city of East Lansing and Michigan State University, recommended that all students self-quarantine for two weeks amid a COVID-19 outbreak on campus.
An exception has been made for college sports training, and MSU’s football team has continued workouts.
But the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the United States, where the confirmed death count has topped 194,000 people as of Monday evening, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The death count is projected to double by the end of the year.
— MLive’s Matt Wenzel contributed to this report.
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