Supposedly the medical experts encouraged the push to spring so they could learn more about the way COVID may spark the heart issue. This is a decent read on it and also points out that the Big 12 continues to have serious concerns about the heart implications.

https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/maryland-terps/how-myocarditis-factored-big-ten-and-pac-12-postponement-fall-sports

In this environment I can easily find "experts" to support whatever position that I prefer. If you speak with a health department official whose boss is a Republican you will likely get a very different answer than one whose boss is a Democrat.

Never taken the position that the Big 10 and PAC 12 are superior academically to the ACC, only to the SEC and Big 12. 

And if he is that concerned about the athletes he should be pulling his son off the Mississippi State team if they plan to play.  Then if he says that it is his son's decision then we ask why that was not an option for the players in our conference.  Hope he digs the hole quickly to bury himself and gets fired as commissioner if it ultimately comes out that he and the presidents were more concerned about lawsuits than anything else and that is what drove the decision.

Anyone else having issues with the 11W servers since yesterday? Getting several double posts and often a server error when accessing stories or posting.

Where is BrutusB this morning? I want one of those pitchforks he has.

I want to know if Warren followed what the heads of the universities wanted or did the heads follow Warren. Somebody led the push for no football this fall. There is too much at stake to not have transparency about how things went down. This was not a vote about who should be the official rental car sponsor of the conference.

I want to know if Warren followed what the heads of the universities wanted or did the heads follow Warren. Somebody led the push for no football this fall. There is too much at stake to not have transparency about how things went down. This was not a vote about who should be the official rental car sponsor of the conference.

Wonder how this affects TBDBITL?

Wonder if the minutes of the meeting can be gotten through the Freedom of Information Act?

That vote, if they even took an official vote, is never going to see the light of day.

Gene is not going to fight this unless the Ohio State Board of Trustees wants it. Time for the money people to step up and put some pressure on them. The sad lesson that might be learned is how easy it is to tear down in a year what has taken decades to build.

Welcome to a world where those in decision making positions are so scared of lawsuits and have never played the game that they just might eventually kill off at the college level the sport we all love. At a very minimum they may put the Big Ten into an also ran category for the 4 and 5 star recruits. May be over hyperbole but this world has gotten surreal.

Agreed. A lot of words to really say nothing. I want to know how they actually voted. You can talk all you want about supporting the players and wanting to play but when it came down to saying yea or nay what did Ohio State say? Or were they able to take a voice vote where no one would have to go on record.

I also want to see how the alignment was to which party sits in the respective state governor's chair

Exactly. Make each vote public.

I want the voting by university to be made public.

I want the voting to be made public.

Has to happen on ChickenShit Saturday though.

If we can get fans into the stadium in the spring maybe they could have two spring "games" for the fans.  At that point I would happy to watch them just practice.

But they may have a very different definition of what we have with regards to the "health and safety of the student athletes".

I would not be calling them idiots.  Wanting Buckeye football in any form anytime is simply a passion. Despite comments the very vast majority of Buckeye fans understand that a spring season then turning around to try and have a full fall season makes zero sense.

As for the people running the universities and our esteemed new commissioner, well.....

The only reason I think they will play is because of how they view college football in the south. It is not hyperbole to say they see it as an essential business and more essential than alot that they allowed to operate throughout the pandemic.

I want transparency on who voted which way. Don't hide behind any secret elbow bumps or legalise about not being able to share how each school voted

If you think this was about the welfare of the athletes I want some of what you are smoking. This was all about lawyers, threat of unions, and not wanting to deal with liability.