A little under one month ago, the Big Ten Conference announced a tough decision to postpone its fall football season. The COVID-19 pandemic appeared to be too dangerous to play football in, according to the conference presidents, and thus the Big Ten elected to instead aim for a spring season. But not long after that decision, it looks like the league might be back to playing this fall.
According to sports radio host Dan Patrick, the Big Ten is attempting to pass, “updated safety measures and procedures,” to allow for football to be played. Patrick’s report stated that if they could get those safety measures passed, the league would aim to start the college football season on October 10.
This report comes just a few hours after news broke regarding President Donald Trump and Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren having a conversation to possibly bring football back. The President has been pushing recently on social media to have the Big Ten play this year.
"I think it was very productive about getting Big Ten playing again, immediately," President Trump told reporters before a flight to Wisconsin. "Let's see what happens. (Warren is) a great guy, it's a great conference. Tremendous teams. We're pushing very hard."
After the news of their conversation broke, the Big Ten put out a statement in regards to the news.
“A White House representative reached out to Big Ten Conference commissioner Kevin Warren on Monday, August 31, 2020, to facilitate a phone call between President Donald J. Trump and Commissioner Warren,” the Big Ten said in a statement. “On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, Commissioner Warren and the President had a productive conversation.
“The Big Ten Conference and its Return to Competition Task Force, on behalf of the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors (COP/C), are exhausting every resource to help student-athletes get back to playing the sports they love, at the appropriate time, in the safest and healthiest way possible.”
On Friday, news began to leak that the Big Ten was looking at different possibilities that would allow them to play football earlier in the year than a spring season.
The reports stated that the Big Ten was eying starting its 2020 football season on Thanksgiving week. If that were to be the case, the league could finish its season in time to ensure a full 12-game schedule in 2021.
On his Friday night edition of SportsCenter last week, host Scott Van Pelt was highly critical of that thought. Van Pelt said that the Big Ten starting a season as the normal college football season was coming to a close would be, “nonsense.”
“This week, eight Nebraska players filed a lawsuit to try to overturn the Big Ten’s decision to cancel the season,” Van Pelt said. “But unfortunately, lawsuits and parents writing letters and the President (Donald Trump) tweeting aren’t gonna get us Big Ten football this fall, but maybe Thanksgiving. I can’t say this more clearly; this is nonsense.
“How the hell are you gonna not play in the fall but start in November at Thanksgiving, while the season with teams who are going to start in September is still going and it’s marching towards its playoff? Just think it through. You can’t do that. ‘No, no no, no, no, see, we’re playing for the Old Oaken Bucket and Floyd of Rosedale and Paul Bunyan’s Axe.’ Cool, have fun with a pig trophy. We’re playing for the championship trophy, you know? You can’t start the season with the other one coming down to its most important games. You would be taunting yourself.”
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