‘Infuriated’ Aidan Hutchinson calls out hypocrisy by Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren

The Wolverines football star didn’t mince words about the Big Ten’s commissioner or University of Michigan president Dr. Mark Schlissel.

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In the words of Samuel L. Jackson in the acclaimed 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park, ‘Hold onto your butts.’

While former Michigan team captain and All-American Chris Hutchinson — father of current DE Aidan Hutchinson — has been outspoken as an ER doctor about the Big Ten’s decision-making in terms of postponing or effectively canceling the 2020 fall football season, his son is now speaking out.

Appearing on ESPN personality Marty Smith’s podcast, the younger Hutchinson didn’t mince words when it came to the Big Ten and Michigan president Dr. Mark Schlissel’s involvement in the changes that have happened to college football this season — or the result in a lack thereof, rather.

“I would say my emotions are just frustration. I’m just infuriated,” Hutchinson said on the show. “They made this decision without talking to us. The commissioner, our president — there were no words exchanged asking our thoughts on whether we wanna play. Because, at the end of the day, we’re the ones playing the game and they didn’t ask us for our opinion and it’s super frustrating to find out one day that our president voted for us not to have a season when I’ve never seen that guy in my three years here at Michigan. So, you know, it was definitely frustrating and felt kinda helpless because there’s nothing I can do and us players don’t have a voice.”

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But that’s not all.

Powers Warren is a tight end at Mississippi State. That’s important for a handful of reasons: Mississippi State is in a conference — the SEC — which fully intends to play the season in a conference-only slate; and Powers is the son of Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren.

None of that is lost on Hutchinson.

“I think it’s unfair that Kevin Warren, the B1G commissioner, is canceling the B1G season yet his son will be playing football at Mississippi State this year. That doesn’t quite make sense.”

Aidan’s father, Chris, appeared on Jon Jansen’s Conqu’ring Heroes podcast on Tuesday and further explained why he feels concerned about the Big Ten’s lack of communication to go along with its lack of transparency.

“Zero. I’m outside right now and I can hear the crickets in my backyard and it’s the same thing from them,” “I have a friend who has a player at Iowa and they’re hearing the same thing – nothing. Complete silence. That’s not the way to tackle this sort of thing. I don’t know why they’re not getting out in front of this. It’s as if they think they can just shut the doors and let the winds blow by and then they’re gonna open up the doors and we’re gonna say, ‘Oh, great! One big happy family again!’ I don’t know what sort of leadership academy teaches that, but I don’t think it’s the right way. You need to get out in front of this, you need to be transparent, you need to be forward. We can accept the fact that you didn’t like whatever you interpreted was too much of a risk for our kids. But you didn’t share that with us, you didn’t get our input, and now you made a decision on our behalf and a lot of people don’t like it.”

Meanwhile, the Big Ten’s Warren did make a media appearance — on Sports Business Journal — where he reportedly only got one question on the conference’s decision, and did little to help the fervor or firestorm currently surrounding him and his cohort.

Stay tuned. The inferno is only now starting to heat up.