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Locked on Longhorns Podcast: ‘We Want To Play, Big 10 cancelled?’

The latest Locked on Longhorns Podcast discusses the ‘We Want To Play’ movement that started Sunday. Plus is the Big 10 cancelled?

It seems as if we know a lot and nothing all at the same time. In an attempt to gauge the temperature around the college football landscape, it seems like a lot of battle for position. On Sunday night players, coaches and athletic directors took to Twitter to voice their opinion on the top of playing football. This movement came off the heels of the Big Ten Conference allegedly getting ready to cancel the 2020 season.

Clemson’s star quarterback Trevor Lawrence and Ohio State’s Justin Fields joined players from Power Five conferences with the hashtag “We Want To Play.” Lawrence has been vocal about players needing to be on campus, he sent a series of tweets pleading his case. As far as the Big 12 is concerned, they are scheduling a Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday to make their final decision on playing football in 2020.

One rumor on the docket being four Big Ten schools heading to the Big 12 to play football for one season. Bruce Feldman of the Athletic refuted the report on Twitter. The rumored schools were Ohio State, Michigan, Iowa and former Big 12 foe Nebraska. Another report from the Dan Patrick show discussed Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC for one season. Seems farfetched but it would be a fun idea. Maybe the Longhorns could finally get their hands on the Texas A&M Aggies once again.

The Tony Fields II saga is continuing as Longhorns fans are waiting on his transfer announcement. All reports are trending towards Texas but he has yet to make a formal announcement. It could be due to the fact that a school he was looking at Minnesota is part of the Big Ten, they are set to cancel the season. Also Myron Warren has removed himself from the transfer portal.

Plus we discuss Longhorns in the NFL, Charles Omenihu and Alex Okafor.

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College football in the fall couldn’t be any more bleak

Two Power Five athletic directors spoke with Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports. It appears it is only a matter of time before football is cancelled.

The thought of college football has become more bleak with every passing moment as of late. No one wants actually consider the possibility of it not happening. Those of us in the state of Texas especially love our football. Often times we consume it every week from Thursday night until Monday night. However, the game we love is in serious jeopardy.

Following the MAC being the first to cancel their season, two athletic directors from Power Five conferences spoke with CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd. The two anonymous ADs gave a less than thrilling answer to the question we all are asking. Will there be college football in the fall of 2020?

“It’s not fair what we’re doing to our coaches and student-athletes,” one long-time Power Five AD said. “The sooner we can come to a finality, the better.”

“I think it’s inevitable [the season will not be played in the fall],” said another veteran Power Five AD. – according to CBS Sports report

According to multiple reports, the Big Ten Conference met to discuss multiple options for their upcoming season. The idea of pushing the season to the spring of 2021 once again became an option.

Big Ten presidents met on Saturday, though a league source told CBS Sports not to expect an immediate announcement to cancel its season — the feeling being that the league wouldn’t alter its practice schedule and announce a cancellation on the same day.

The Big Ten on Saturday announced it was “indefinitely” delaying a move to Phase 3 of practice that would have allowed players to use pads. The Detroit Free Press reported that Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren is believed to prefer attempting to play a season in spring 2021.

Longhorns Wire explored the idea of a spring season recently, and it isn’t so farfetched of an idea. The cancellation of the MAC conference seems to have sent plans in motion for other conferences to question pushing for football to kick off in time.

The Longhorns bitter rivals to the north have already put their practice schedule to a halt. It wasn’t necessarily alarming since they were originally ramping up for kickoff on August 29th. The alarming part is that Oklahoma is allowing players to return home for a few days. That part raised an eyebrow.

Schools are putting in place guidelines and safety measures to ensure the health and well being of their players. Sending them home gives you the idea that maybe college football isn’t in the plans for the fall at this point. Could be pure speculation but doesn’t appear to be a positive sign. We will continue to monitor the situation as we all await answers.

The NCAA Division I Council is set to meet on Wednesday and that might be when we get some sort of closure. Like the anonymous athletic director stated, we need to come to some finality.