The “ungrateful” Cornhusker was inundated with a tsunami of pushback from the established sports media. Intriguingly, Coach Frost also floated the idea that his team might go rogue and play games wherever they could find them. His school would also lose $80 to $120 million without football, and most of the other sports at Nebraska would be hurt. Scott Frost’s players, he said, were safer in the controlled environment of the Nebraska football program than they were at home - they would receive more testing, and better health care, there than they would anywhere else in Lincoln, or even at their parents’ houses. When news of the postponement was about to break, the coach of one conference school, Nebraska, tried to forestall the decision with a desperate 11th-hour press conference. Big Ten football for fall 2020 was finis, caput, done. There would be no delay in the decision, no waiting a week or two to see if virus conditions improved or how other major conferences were going to proceed.
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This occurred on August 11, a full three weeks before the first scheduled game. Six days later, the commissioner of the Big Ten, Kevin Warren, blindsided them all by announcing that all fall sports - most prominently football - were canceled. There was a hint of reluctance in the commissioner’s go signal, but most everyone, in their enthusiasm for football, burrowed past it and laid plans for some semblance of the grand old game on their campuses beginning in a month or so. Coaches, players, and fans were optimistic if cautious giddiness is a thing, they were that, too.Ĭoaches had assembled their teams players were practicing athletic departments were putting in place health protocols for fans and players. The 14 conference schools would play conference games only they would play 10 of them they would start in early September and conclude in mid-November, with two bye weeks built into every school’s schedule as a cushion against delays or virus outbreaks within teams or other disruptions. Everything pointed to the hallowed, historic Big Ten giving football the old college try. How did we get to this chaotic point? On August 5, the conference released a tentative football schedule.
Ohio State practiced in pads Tuesday! Jim Harbaugh told his Michigan team to be ready to play in October! A major voice in sports talk radio pegged the start date as October 10! Big Ten prexies were said to be revoting on Saturday! No, the vote’s slated for Monday! But no again, the Big Ten prexies have no immediate plans to meet, reliable sources say!
Who knows? Every day - indeed, every couple of hours - there is a new, breathlessly reported development in the soap opera that is the Big Ten football postponement.
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