Momentum building for October start to Big Ten football season?

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Is momentum building toward an October start to the Big Ten's football season? Well, it's already September, so the wheels better get turning faster. But at least they seem to be in motion. On Tuesday, President Trump and Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren spoke on the phone, and Trump later tweeted that the Big Ten is "on the 1-yard line" when it comes to playing football this fall. The Big Ten then called it a "productive call" between the two men. Are we getting our hopes up for nothing, or could Big Ten football really begin next month? Matt Baxendell joins Dave Biddle to discuss all of that, plus converse about Ohio State's latest commitment in its 2022 class: tight end Bennett Christian. All of that and more is coming your way on the Wednesday 5ish. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Good morning bucknoters. Welcome to the bucknuts morning five here on September 2nd, 2020.
0:26.0	I am Dave Biddle. I am joined by Matt Baxendale.
0:29.0	Baxendale.
0:30.0	President Trump and Kevin Warren spoke yesterday on the phone.
0:33.7	I'm sitting here laughing and shaking my head.
0:35.9	Bax, do you think momentum is building
0:38.3	for in October starts a big 10 football?
0:40.3	Doesn't that sound like a mad lib, right?
0:44.0	President Trump talks to Commissioner Kevin Warren about
0:48.0	pandemic testing.
0:49.0	If we had said that in 2019, we would have looked at each other like we were nuts.
0:53.2	That's the world we're living in right now.
0:55.4	Look, people, there's some people out there who are gonna hear the word Trump or
0:59.9	hear the word Biden and recoil, look we have to talk about this. This is directly to do with football. So I think this is a massive, massive moment for changing the situation behind the vote.
1:13.6	What the president apparently talked with the commissioner about was
1:17.2	that the United States of America has committed to purchasing a gigantic number of
1:21.9	doses with federal funds for these rapid tests that are the 15 minute results that you can get at home.
1:30.5	You don't have to send it into a lab or anything like that. So by
1:34.0	definition the president guaranteeing the big 10 access to these tests when they
1:39.7	come out in October changes the ability for these programs to properly test and isolate anybody
1:46.5	who does come down with a case of COVID. This is a big change. This is certainly a different change from where the presidents were when they voted on
1:57.1	deciding to essentially cancel fall football. There is absolutely momentum to this change right now.
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