Takeaways from the Pac-12 #WeAreUnited movement (08/03)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
A roundtable discussion regarding the Pac-12 players seeking change in college football. First, detailing the demands of the #WeAreUnited Statement (2:30), where coaches fit in the tension between players and the system (11:45) and the spotlight that's been turned on the revenue distribution in college football (18:25). Then, what we can glean from Nick Rolovich's reaction to the player movement (34:00) and the SEC players voicing their concern about health and safety in the 2020 season (42:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host Danny Canal, Chip Anderson, |
| 0:09.0 | Barton Simmons, and Tom Fonelli. It's your call for the best college football |
| 0:14.5 | coverage from National Signing Day to the National Championship and |
| 0:18.7 | everything in between. CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. And welcome back to |
| 0:26.4 | the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. That's Barton Simmons. That's Tom |
| 0:30.7 | Fonelli. That's Danny Canal. I'm Chip Patterson here on a Monday afternoon. |
| 0:34.8 | After a busy weekend in the college football world, we've got one primary |
| 0:40.4 | topic to get to. We want to bring everybody to the table and sort of take a part |
| 0:44.9 | and look at the different angles to what's going on in the pack 12. Also as we |
| 0:49.3 | continue this week to cross our fingers that we're going to be moving towards a |
| 0:54.1 | college football schedule, there will be throughout the week some headlines |
| 0:58.0 | coming out of the big 12. So we will have some schedules to break down there. |
| 1:01.4 | Big 10 schedules as we discuss them loosely in our last podcast. You could drop |
| 1:07.8 | it any minute. Those will give us some opportunities to how many kids are |
| 1:14.0 | going to win this fall? Go ahead and get into our win totals once we actually |
| 1:19.7 | do that. So gentlemen, I guess the pack 12 had published a letter hashtag. We are |
| 1:28.4 | united to the players Tribune on Sunday. This was after initial reporting that |
| 1:33.2 | indicated that there were groups of pack 12 players that had decided that maybe |
| 1:39.0 | they would opt out of the season if they were not guaranteed some kinds of |
| 1:44.6 | protections, particularly as they are undergoing playing college football in the |
| 1:49.4 | era of COVID. Now, there's real quickly there are health and safety protections. |
| 1:55.3 | That's one of their categories. There is the request to protect all sports |
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