According to this tweet, Dan Patrick is wrong.

Submitted by ldevon1 on September 14th, 2020 at 4:03 PM

#Badgers chancellor Rebecca Blank today during a teleconference when asked about B1G football: "I will say we're all going to move together in the Big Ten. We're all going to play or not if we possibly can. This isn't going to be a school by school thing."

Wolverine Devotee

September 14th, 2020 at 4:12 PM ^

It was it is then. We all go down together.

But if OSU and PSU etc played and Michigan didn't? Yikes. Would've been a self-imposed death penalty.

End of the day, it's Go Blue and beat the fuck out of OSU. 

swalburn

September 14th, 2020 at 4:18 PM ^

I totally agree.  It is all or nothing.  The teams that didn't play would be so disadvantaged going forward.  I think that is another reason there is so much pressure on them to play.  If the conference doesn't play everyone else will negative recruit them into oblivion.  Additionally, conferences that are out of sight are out of mind.  I hope they make the right decision whatever that is, but what a tough spot to be in.

robpollard

September 14th, 2020 at 4:14 PM ^

So you're saying a conference that threatened to drop the hammer on one of its members (Nebraska) when they made rumbles about going their own way & playing, is going to follow the same process for their next decision?

Shocked Patrick Stewart GIF by reactionseditor
 

SFBlue

September 14th, 2020 at 4:16 PM ^

But wait! What's this about the schools having a vote? That can't be. Some slappy on the Internets said that Gretchen Whitmer is **not** going to allow *any* football?! And what's a "chancellor"!?!

I smell a commie, antifa rat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bklein09

September 14th, 2020 at 4:42 PM ^

The only places I've ever been that smell like shit are all in the midwest. The west coast smells like roses, sea salt, and fresh mountain dew (not that mountain dew). 

In all seriousness, I think SFBlue was making a joke about all the crazy Whitmer conspiracy folks.  

Um1994

September 14th, 2020 at 4:18 PM ^

It seems that various Badgers may have been the "anonymous" sources that emerged Friday and over the weekend.  If I recall, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was one of the first to break the story, and now the UW Chancellor is speaking.  It would be great if someone in the Big Ten office would make a statement or issue a PR to stop, or reduce, the rampant speculation.

uminks

September 14th, 2020 at 4:18 PM ^

I don't believe anyone, so we might as well stop posting. If by Friday a decision is made yes or no to a season. If we don't hear anything, then we are not playing this season.

Blake Forum

September 14th, 2020 at 4:22 PM ^

There must be some mistake. I was told that Mark Schlissel and Gretchen Whitmer had agreed to sabotage the football program and let all the best players transfer to Ohio State without sitting out a year

username03

September 14th, 2020 at 4:23 PM ^

This is one of the few things I find interesting in all this mess. Rutger's president said he is absolutely convinced he made the right call, would he really change his mind that quickly? If it was a close vote for yes is he really going to put his team on the field when he thinks it's dangerous? Is there some mechanism the big ten could use to force his hand?

Red is Blue

September 14th, 2020 at 4:50 PM ^

The tweet is less than clear.  She says all the schools are going to do the same thing "if we possible can."  Which means it is also possible that all the schools won't do the same thing.  This seems to be at odds with it not being a school by school thing.

BananaRepublic

September 14th, 2020 at 5:06 PM ^

"if we possibly can"?

 

So, we all want to work together but we might not...

 

The decision ostensibly has to do with the various schools feeling as though they can play football safely or not. If enough schools feel that they can, are we saying that the schools who think its unsafe will just play anyway because democracy?  Seems odd