So Now What? Uncanceling a Season - Part 1
The Solid Verbal College Football
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🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Ty and Dan take a look back at the wild, uncertain events of the summer of 2020, when the Big Ten canceled, and later uncanceled, its fall football season amid the ongoing pandemic. Who were the central figures that drove the decisionmaking and what happened that made the conference change its mind? With help from Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic and David Jones of PennLive.com, Part 1 is a retrospective on how the Big Ten inadvertently created a circus.
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| 0:00.0 | On August 11, 2020, the Big Ten led by its new commissioner, Kevin Warren, released a statement |
| 0:06.9 | that shook the college football world. The Big Ten was canceling its fall football schedule |
| 0:13.4 | due to the ongoing pandemic. I think right now, like a lot of college football fans, |
| 0:18.0 | just kind of devastated by the news. There's a reality now that there won't be any college football |
| 0:22.1 | as far as the Big Ten, and it sounds like eventually the Pac-12 for now. The Pac-12 did follow suit, |
| 0:27.6 | while the other major conferences remained in a holding counter. With so many unknowns about |
| 0:33.2 | the virus and more and more cases by the day, the entire season was hanging on by a thread. |
| 0:39.3 | It's incumbent on the Big Ten to share this medical information with the population at large, |
| 0:45.5 | not just in sports. And then, just five weeks later, the Big Ten changed its mind. |
| 0:53.6 | Great news for a college football, great news for a college game day, great news for everybody. |
| 1:00.0 | I know, all we're waiting for now is the Pac-12 to make the same decision, and then we can get the whole |
| 1:05.6 | band back together again. This is great. The season was saved, at least some version of it. |
| 1:14.0 | How exactly does the season get canceled and uncanceled within the span of a few short weeks? |
| 1:20.1 | From the Solid Verbal, this is a special production. So now what? |
| 1:30.5 | My name is Ty Hildenbrand. I'm joined as always by Dan Rubenstein. Dan, let's start here. |
| 1:36.1 | Do you remember where you were? March 11th, 2020. Yes, March 11th. I was in Brooklyn and not knowing |
| 1:45.2 | what the hell was happening in the world. And I think it was my brother's birthday too, so that's great. |
| 1:49.7 | Crazy day, right? That was the day of the world, sort of stood still. Tom Hanks, |
| 1:54.6 | Rita Wilson, both test positive for COVID. That was kind of like the first straw in this weird world. |
| 2:01.0 | We had an NBA game that was halted right before tip off. There was a jam pack durinar. |
| 2:05.3 | Remember, they booed upon hearing the announcement. And then, shortly thereafter, at 946 |
| 2:12.7 | Eastern time, the NBA just flat out suspended its season until further notice. |
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