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Football Players at UNC and elsewhere are saying #WeWantToPlay, but it’s more than that

It’s been a weekend for college football, huh? Just in the past 24 hours, we’ve seen first reports that it was all but a done deal that college football wasn’t going to happen, then some players started hashtagging #WeWantToPlay, and then it turned out that it wasn’t the “players just want to play regardless of consequences” ideal that a lot of bad-faith Tweeters wanted it to be, but rather a call for a real seat at the table, maybe even a union:

And now, we’re getting all sorts of conflicting reports from media members in contact with ADs and other administrators, illustrating discord between and within conferences (The Big 10 is set to cancel/postpone the season, according to the Detroit Free Press, while the ACC and SEC seem dead-set on going full steam ahead.