re: "Every Big Ten athletic director was in favor of playing a fall football season."

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Hate to see it!

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You'll hate to see it even more if the Progs parlay the B1G and PAC-12 shutdown into shutting down all NCAA football.

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You'll hate to see it even more if the Progs parlay the B1G and PAC-12 shutdown into shutting down all NCAA football.

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Well that’s a bridge I’ll cross when I get to it!
But for now?

I’m not sure I believe this.

Did we hear any of the ADs speaking up? Or were they too scared say anything in fear of losing their jobs?

I’ll go w the latter. It’s way too convenient at this time to suddenly say something about wanting the football season.

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That's exactly what happened. Michigan etc appealed to the Big 10, and the conference chose to show solidarity and support them. And that support came from the other institutions agreeing to do so.

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Got a link to any published report that supports your assumption?

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Just using common sense, but for fun, this is taken from the SEC Rant:

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States with a Republican governor not playing high school football this fall:

Maryland

States with Democratic governors not playing high school football this fall:

Pennsylvania (The battle is ongoing with the governor recommending no fall football)
Michigan
Virginia
Minnesota
North Carolina
Nevada
Illinois
California
Oregon
Colorado
Washington
Hawaii
Nevada
New Mexico
Delaware

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So, in Big 10 country, you have the following states NOT allowing high school, and thus also not likely allowing college games either, to prevent gatherings...

Maryland, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois.
That would mean Maryland, Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Illinois, and Northwestern could all have been facing a "stand down" order from the governor; at the very least there would be considerable pressure and conflict. Rutgers is yet to be determined. That's 7-8 conference teams, including several big players and a number of original members.

That explains the initial silence. Ohio State and Nebraska are casualties by association; Nebraska being new to the Big 10 was less inclined to go along with it.

If half the conference were to play and the other half shuts it down, competitive balance is destroyed as far as recruiting. You're a recruit, you're going to the school that played this fall, not the one that skipped it.

Nebraska going against the grain is interesting, as doing so would have been a HUGE boost to their recruiting, and help restore the program. Could absolutely see how they'd want to, and why the Big 10 threatened to eject them.

The problem with this, is that the SEC and Big 12 are going full steam ahead. I could see the ACC wavering late, as potentially Boston College, Virginia, Syracuse and potentially Pitt and 1-2 NC schools might back out. But the SEC won't quit unless death rates spike bigtime, which isn't happening... and thus would extend their lead over the Big 10 to almost untouchable levels.

In 1-2 years, we're all going to look back on this as unnecessary overreaction, I'd be willing to bet my retirement on that. And when that occurs, those that played will be WAY ahead of those that didn't play, as far as recruiting. It's not just about playing for a title or getting to the NFL, it's about possibly not playing again in the future.

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Kevin Warren is a fricking retard.

An Affirmative Action hire.

Probably can't count to 10 like me.

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This haiku is the perfect example of someone who doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground. How can you be so dumb?

When you see the list of No HS Football states, you see why the Pac 12 and Mountain West all shut it down too.

Pac 12 schools-
USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, Oregon St, Washington, Washington St, Colorado.

MWC schools-
Air Force*, Colorado State, Fresno State, Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State, San Jose State, UNLV, Hawaii.
Note: Air Force, a national service academy, still plans on playing.

Conferences that will be playing, with schools in those states:

ACC- Pitt, Duke, UNC, NC State, Wake Forest, Virginia, Virginia Tech. (This is why I don't trust them fully. Throw Syracuse and Boston College into that, and you have 9 potential defections).

SEC- Zero teams.

Big 12: Zero teams

AAC: East Carolina, Temple, Navy* (the service academies are going forward with football, and I don't think the states will dare frick with them).

C-USA: Charlotte, Old Dominion

Sun Belt: Appalachian State

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Nope. All of them were in favor according to the Nebraska beat writer. And they were kept separate from the admins and the medical people

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Maybe AD’s but the presidents were the ones that agreed to cancel. This is them trying to shite the blame.

Yes but who hired him?

If you are trying to tell me that Wisconsin's President doesn't have Wisconsin's ADs phone number and doesn't have ongoing texts and conversations with him throughout the summer and weeks about playing football during Covid i think that you are kidding yourself.

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If you are trying to tell me that Wisconsin's President doesn't have Wisconsin's ADs phone number and doesn't have ongoing texts and conversations with him throughout the summer and weeks about playing football during Covid i think that you are kidding yourself.

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There was no vote by the presidents - or anyone else. The meeting was a sham.