Ohio State parents set to hold rally at Ohio Stadium in protest of Big Ten football postponement

Big Ten football parents are organizing a rally to protest the Big Ten’s fall football postponement decision this coming Saturday morning.

The Ohio State football parents are clearly not happy. An OSU parents organization sent a letter to Kevin Warren voicing concern and displeasure last week. That was followed by Shaun Wade’s father, Randy, organizing a peaceful protest outside the Big Ten headquarters Friday. It’s all in efforts to get a meeting with the commissioner in hopes of understanding what went into postponing the fall football season, and with the hopes that football is still on the table.

And that is clearly not the end of it.

According to Randy Wade’s Twitter profile, he is now organizing an Ohio State parent protest at the rotunda of Ohio State Stadium at 11 a.m. this coming Saturday.

Here is Wade’s tweet below with a call for other Big Ten parents to do the same at the ‘Shoe or their respective campuses.

This past Friday, we spoke to Wade to get his insight on what the motivating factors are in continuing this fight, one that it appears isn’t going to end with a few letters and one attempt in person in Chicago.

“It is very important, and I’m just trying to change things,” Wade told Buckeyes Wire. “The message everyone is trying to convey is that we’re cavemen, and we just want football. No, we want football safely, and as soon as football is available to be there, we want to play it. We want to play in the fall, but if we can’t, we want to make sure everything is talked about for the spring.”

The protest on Friday morning outside the Big Ten offices only attracted about 30 or so attendees, but a protest at the ‘Shoe, on campus, will most likely bring out a much larger gathering as fans are more than likely to get into the act.

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And it appears Wade now has the support of the Football Parents at Ohio State association (FPAOS) of which he is not a member. It too has gotten behind the cause and is asking many to come out and show support.

We’ll keep an eye on the momentum this garners as we go through the week, but to say that Warren is in a bad spot here is an understatement. Welcome to the job of Big Ten commissioner in a worldwide pandemic.

 

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