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Your listening to Fox Sports Radio. I'm fired up this morning. I am ready to roll and I am this is this is a crazy plot twist. Would you have ever believed that your boy here would turn into the biggest defender of Big Ten football in the entire country.

You probably never would have expected that plot twist. All of you out there who've heard me over the years take shots at Jim Harbaugh take shots at Urban Meyer take shots at all the Big Ten programs over the years as a died in the wall SEC fan.

You probably never would have anticipated on this program that your boy Clay Travis would turn into the biggest advocate in the entirety of the media in the country for Big Ten football to be played this fall but I am just completely fired up about this.

And I'm going to be beating this drama all week probably for weeks but the the absurdity of it all has got me absolutely riled up and so I want to just kind of start off here.

I am a parent. Okay all of my kids are going to be back physically in school by Monday of next week. I'll have a kindergartener I'll have a fourth grader and I will have a seventh grader.

They matter more to me than anything in the world. All three of them will be back physically attending school here in the Nashville area of Tennessee where I live they will all be physically present.

My kids are young they're 12 9 and 5 but if they were college age I would want them to be in school at college because the data reflects that college kids are not in college.

Are not in danger relatively speaking from the coronavirus they are more likely to die of the seasonal flu.

They're more likely to die driving to campus they are more likely to be murdered they are more likely to OD on drugs they are more likely to have an overdose of alcohol.

They are more likely to kill themselves all of those are awful things.

But all of them are extremely unlikely in the grand scheme of things it doesn't mean that your kids or my kids are going to be safe in college no matter what it certainly doesn't.

And bad things can happen but as a group college kids are safe on campus and so are kindergarteners which I have all the way through grad school kids.

If you are young you are not in danger from the coronavirus and that is why I completely empathize with all of the parents in the big 10 who are raising a significant question about the decisions that they are going to be taking.

And the big 10 who are in danger from the coronavirus that they are going to be taking about the decisions that were made in the big 10.

In particular Nebraska Ohio State Penn State Iowa hundreds of parents of college football players in this country are raising an important question.

And with all other scholarship athletes not have the right to decide whether or not we play it's the same question that Justin Fields star quarterback for the Ohio State Buckais is asking as well.

That is a fair question that is a legitimate question also the same statement that Lisa McCaffrey who is married to Ed McCaffrey whose son Dylan plays at Michigan whose son Christian McCaffrey is the highest paid running back of all time.

She is arguing that the University of Michigan and also as another child at Nebraska that both of those programs are doing a good job taking care of her kids and she's asking why they shouldn't have the right to make a choice to play.

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