The Oh, I'm not. Good morning bucknote is welcome to the bucknuts Morning 5 here on Monday, August 17th, 2020.

I am Dave Bill.

I am very happy joined by Patrick Murphy.

Patrick, of course, the story of the day is Justin Field starting a petition

yesterday, but now has over a quarter of million signatures already.

Justin Fields is urging the Big Ten to reinstate football

immediately.

Now this might be a Hail Mary pass but is there any chance

this is going to work Patrick? First of all I think props to Justin Fields I mean this is

a guy who didn't grow up watching Ohio State football, didn't grow up watching Big Ten football.

Obviously everyone knows his story, his recruitment was originally committed to Penn State, I guess, so it does have some connection here, but went to Georgia, ended up transferring Ohio State after not playing.

There's only really been here for a little over a year, year and a half in Columbus but has not only, you know, fallen in love with Ohio State,

falling in love with Big Ten football, but really become quite a leader.

And obviously he was named Captain earlier this year by his teammates and Ryan Day, which speaks a lot to what he what he's become but to do something like this to kind of stand up and you know a lot of

people have put stuff out on Twitter and the hashtag and whatnot but to actually

start a petition and and go that extra step is pretty impressive for anyone not to mention a guy who is probably not going to be here in a few months

regardless of whether there's a season or not so you know I think I think that needs to be said first and

foremost Ohio State whether we see

Justin Fields in uniform or not again had an impressive player both on and off the

field as to the petition itself it's tough to say I mean I think you put it right with with it's probably a bit of a Hail Mary

You know he's very adamant about this and and he was just on the ESPN radio and we've got a story on the site about it that Steve Hellwegen did.

But you know, I, there was a report yesterday that the Big Ten was aware of the petition.

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