Terps react to Big Ten postponing 2020 football season, other fall sports

The Big Ten conference on Tuesday postponed the 2020 fall sports season, including football, due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns.

The league hopes to hold competition in the spring.

THIS YEAR.

JUST A FEW HOURSAGO... THE BIG 10 BECAME THEFIRST POWERHOUSE FOOTBALLCONFERENCE... TO CANCELFOOTBALL..

AND ALL OTHER FALLSPORTS FOR 20-20.

WMAR 2 NEWSSHAWN STEPNER HAS WHERE THELEAGUE... AND THE PLAYERS..WILL GO FROM HERE.A truly historic day forcollege football.

The Big Tenpostponing the 2020 seasonbecause of COVID-19 concerns.Kevin Warren, Big TenCommissioner: We just believe,collectively, thereuncertainty at this point intime in our country toencourage our student athletesto participate in fall sports.Big Ten Commissioner KevinWarren says the conferencewill continue to explore thepossibility of playing thosefall sports, includingfootball, in the spring.

Butthe league couldnforward right now.

Warren: Theoverarching issues that wealways had to keep at the topof our mind, the health, thesafety, the wellness - bothphysical and mental - for ourstudent athletes was going tobe at the top of my list.Maryland Terrapins AthleticDirector Damon Evans releasinga statement saying in partquote: Not being able tocompete this fall isdisappointing for all of us,but I have every confidencethey will remain resilient andstrong in these trying times.Referencing the Terpsstudent-athletes.

We willcontinue to support every oneof them and will workdiligently with universityleadership, local and stateofficials, and the conferenceto make every effort toprovide competitiveopportunities for ourstudent-athletes” Terps HeadFootball Coach Mike Locksleystatement reads:“I know asignificant amount of thoughtand medical research went intothis decision and while I amextremely disappointed for ourteam, Iunderstanding.

Our players andstaff have demonstratedtremendous discipline andattention to detail duringthis time and Iproud of them for how theyhandled this tough situation.We will continue to do whatbest for our student- athletesboth on and off the field andwhen the time comes tocompete, we will be ready”The Terps hit the field forpractice number one just fourdays ago.

Now theywait months and months for thepossibility to compete.Warren: Wehopefully to be able toaddress the issues of theopportunities if we can havemany of the fall sports thatwe were planning to have thisfall, that we can have thosein the spring, includingfootball.

Shawn Stepner,WMAR-2 News.HEALTH EXPERTS ARE CONTINUINGTO PLEAD WITH SCHOOL DIS