Tag: Teddy Greenstein

Big Ten reveals vote count that led to canceling fall football

By an 11-3 vote the Big Ten Presidents chose not to play football this fall. See who voted to play and who held the most important NO vote.

The Big Ten was the first of the Power Five conferences to cancel football this fall, a move in early August that saw the Pac-12 follow just hours later.

It appeared that doomsday for college football in 2020 was upon us but then the ACC, Big 12 and SEC all didn’t follow suit like was expected.

Furthermore, Conference USA, the AAC and Sun Belt all stayed the course in the Group of Five, resulting in a total of 76 FBS teams as of today, scheduled to play football starting at some point in September.

The Big Ten has gotten some bad press and in my eyes, deservedly so for how quick they were to cancel things.  Backlash came from star players, certain potions of the media, plenty of fans and a number of parents.

Now the 11-3 vote that led to the Big Ten canceling their 2020 fall season has been revealed by Teddy Greenstein of the Chicago Tribune.

“Sources told the Tribune that Ohio State, Nebraska and Iowa dissented.”

So what Greenstein’s report tells me is that the Big Ten won’t be playing football this fall or winter, even just days after the latest rumors of the start to the season during Thanksgiving week.

Why is that?

Morton Schapiro is the Northwestern University President.  More importantly, he’s the Chair of the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors.

After learning that Ohio State, Nebraska, and Iowa are the schools that voted to go-ahead with football this fall, we’re made aware that Schapiro voted not to.

Essentially sitting in the “power chair” of Presidents and Chancellors of the conference, he’s not seemingly going to be trying to sway others to change their minds to play.

Seeing as Northwestern has decided to keep freshmen and sophomores off campus until at least January, it’s hard to imagine Schapiro is any rush to try and talk his fellow Presidents into getting football played before the start of the new year.

Retiring Big Ten official compares Jim Harbaugh to child, speaks out on J.T. Barrett spot

Retiring B1G official Dan Capron sat down with Teddy Greenstein of the Chicago Tribune. He spoke of Jim Harbaugh and the J.T. Barrett spot.

Dan Capron has been working Big Ten college football games for twenty years. The time has come however for him to make a decision to call it quits after doing a bushel of very big games. He’s done some Ohio State vs. Michigan games, a national championship game, and a slew of other big-time tilts throughout his career.

That means he’s got some behind the scenes stories and perspectives not many have from on-the-field moments and battles that only someone in his position has access to.

The Chicago Tribune’s Teddy Greenstein sat down with the officiating veteran to pick his brain on some things the public may not know. It’s a fascinating read, and there are some things in there that Buckeye fans will get a kick out of, and one that they may not.

Some of the most interesting nuggets come from the Ohio State vs. Michigan game in 2016 that went to double overtime. You know the one. The game in which there was a “controversial” spot that J.T. Barrett received on the winning drive of the game, and the same one in which Jim Harbaugh got an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for throwing his playbook on the field in disgust. Yeah, that one.

When discussing the unsportsmanlike penalty, Capron compared Jim Harbaugh’s antics to a fourth grader.

Next … Capron’s take on Jim Harbaugh’s antics in the 2016 game

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