Despite announcing the 2020 conference only schedule on Thursday, the Big Ten issued a statement on Saturday that adds more doubt as to whether football will actually take place this fall. Essentially, no contact practices without pads will be in place “until further notice.”
Here is the first part of the statement that explains the decision:
“The Big Ten Conference announced today, based on the advice and counsel of the Big Ten Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee, that, until further notice, all institutions will remain in the first two days of the acclimatization period in football (i.