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Report: Big Ten re-vote not occurring until this weekend ‘at the earliest’

According to Teddy Greenstein of the Chicago Tribune, there will not be a Big Ten re-vote on football until this weekend ‘at the earliest.’

Don’t shoot the messenger.

Now that I have that out of the way, we’ve got another update, maybe, to what’s going on with the Cloak and Dagger activities of commissioner Kevin Warren, the Big Ten, and the university presidents. There are a slew of reports about several balls being in the air at once, but nothing coming from the conference offices in the Chicagoland area.

So, we are left to trust the sources and reporting occurring with some very reputable people.

The latest comes from the Chicago Tribune’s Teddy Greenstein. According to him, there is not going to be a vote on the fate of Big Ten football this fall until this weekend at the earliest.

Or, so we think. I’m not sure even the folks that know what’s going on really know what’s happening at this point. The entire conference seems to be in a 14-way tug of war, all pulling in different directions.

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Look, at this point, let’s call it a wait and see still. Was there a vote? Will there be a vote? What will that vote look like, and will we know the result of the vote or non-vote? If a vote happens in a forest and nobody is around, was there still a vote?

Maybe it’ll happen this weekend. Maybe it’ll happen on the first snowfall, or with the first leaves of fall. I do not like green eggs and ham Sam I am. I do not like this Big Ten vote thing at all.

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Did Big Ten presidents actually vote on having a fall season? Even athletic directors are not sure

Even athletic directors do not know the answer

The lack of transparency surrounding the Big Ten decision to cancel fall sports is starting to get ridiculous. When the decision was officially made a week ago, the story circling from multiple sources was that Big Ten presidents and chancellors met with Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren and voted against having a 2020 fall season.

New information has since surfaced from The Athletic writer Nicole Auerbach, among other college football insiders, to suggest that maybe no vote ever actually took place.

According to Auerbach’s tweet, the lack of transparency is not only between the public and the conference, but even amongst the conference officials themselves. Penn State’s AD Sandy Barbour did not know whether or not her own president had voted on the decision. From what we know about the interactions between AD’s and presidents, there was no discussion of a voting breakdown, no discussion of who made the final decision, and no discussion of which schools wanted to play and which did not. Obviously there could be much more that AD’s and presidents know that has not been shared, but at the moment the public is left to guess how the meeting went down and who had the final say.

Jeff Wald of the local Minnesota Fox station reported that Minnesota President Joan Gabel would not even call it a vote:

In the past week, we have seen reports shift from a solidified vote, to a vote that took place at a later date than originally reported, to no actual vote at all. One thing we do know is that the lack of transparency only makes this decision more difficult for athletes, coaches, parents, and everybody involved in Big Ten fall sports to stomach. Clear answers are needed from the top, and they had better come fast.