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marmar

(77,081 posts) Wed Sep 2, 2020, 09:56 AM Sep 2020

As with everything else, Trump is making the imminent Big 10 football deal up out of whole cloth....

(Detroit Free Press) As a global pandemic continues to shake this nation to its core, violence erupts in city streets and the American economy wades deeper into a recession, the leader of the free world has launched a campaign to revive Big Ten football this fall.

At 11:18 a.m. Tuesday, Donald Trump announced on Twitter he had connected with commissioner Kevin Warren to discuss the possibility of an immediate restart.

“On the one yard line!” he proclaimed.

But Trump didn’t specify on which side of the field they were, and hours later it became clear they were backed up in the shadow of their end zone instead of on the edge of pay dirt. ...............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/2020/09/01/big-ten-football-president-donald-trump-michigan-msu/5687054002/

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As with everything else, Trump is making the imminent Big 10 football deal up out of whole cloth.... (Original Post) marmar Sep 2020 OP

I had a post about this issue last night genxlib Sep 2020 #1

genxlib

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1. I had a post about this issue last night

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Wed Sep 2, 2020, 10:16 AM

Sep 2020

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214009783

Although it is a longshot. I don't think a restart is as outlandish as this writer believes it is. Ohio State, for one, is pushing to play (but they were one of the original votes to play) https://247sports.com/Article/Big-Ten-football-Ohio-State-president-Kristina-Johnson-says-theres-a-path-to-football-in-fall-150954166/ . I think there is a lot of pressure from parents, fans and players that they did not anticipate. Especially since the other major east coast conferences did not follow suit.

Either way, Trump gets to claim that he is working for it and blame other people for it not happening. That is what he needs in either case.

My bigger concern is whether he is trying to leverage testing capacity to make it possible.

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