Nebraska football coach Scott Frost said Monday that the Cornhuskers are prepared to play this upcoming season — even if it’s outside the Big Ten.
Frost said during a Zoom teleconference with reporters, “we’re prepared to look at any and all options.”
Nebraska president Walter E. Carter Jr. and athletic director Bill Moos couldn’t be immediately reached for comment.
Ohio State coach Ryan Day also indicated on Twitter that he’s not done fighting to play this season.
Penn State coach James Franklin expressed a similar sentiment, tweeting “I am willing to fight WITH them (the players) & for our program!”
Frost said he isn’t in favor of postponing the season to the spring because it would require his players to play two seasons in one calendar year.
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh released a statement Monday advocating for the college football season to go on as planned.
In the statement, Harbaugh makes a case for why a season could still safely go on, which includes the program having zero positive tests out of the last 353 administered, zero positive tests among the coaches and staff over the entire eight weeks of testing, following CDC guidelines and “self‐implemented stricter standards for contacting tracing in quarantining to prevent spread.”
Harbaugh ended the statement with the hashtags “#WEWANTTOPLAY” and “#WEWANTTOCOACH” in support of the players who came together Sunday night to create a joint statement that expressed their desire to play the 2020 season.