While the fate of college football continues to be debated, one strong voice is being reported in favor of the postponement of the season – Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren.
Warren, the conference’s first-year commissioner, is in favor of moving the college football season to the spring, though no decision has been made, unnamed sources told the Detroit Free Press.
The news comes after the Big Ten announced on Saturday morning that it will not allow its football teams to advance to padded, full-contact practices until further notice.
The Big Ten presidents met with the commissioner on Saturday morning at a regularly scheduled conference meeting in which they discussed the fate of the college football season. Yahoo! Sport ‘ Pete Thamel reported that “all options are on the table” and that “there is some presidential moment for the cancellation of the autumn football season.”
Wants a spokesman for Big Ten told cleveland.com, that no vote on the 2020 football season is scheduled for Saturday’s meeting. The Columbus Dispatch reported that Ohio State, whose new president Kristina Johnson will not begin her term until later this month, did not attend the meeting.
In the statement of the Big Ten, pausing the progression to full-contact practitioners, the conference said that ‘will continue to evaluate the day, while relying on our medical experts, to make the best decisions possible for health, safety and wellness of our student-athletes. ”
