By the time the Big Ten news release hit email inboxes at 2:08 p.m. CT Tuesday confirming the postponement of the 2020-21 fall sports season “due to ongoing health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic,” some players on Wisconsin’s football team already had begun to voice their displeasure with the outcome on social media. A prevailing sentiment of both shock and anger emerged as they attempted to process an unprecedented outcome amid equally unprecedented circumstances.
Maybe Big Ten football will return in the spring, although there is no guarantee such a pursuit will prove successful. But for the first time since 1888, there will be no fall football for Wisconsin.
Wisconsin athletics director Barry Alvarez and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank released a joint statement Tuesday and described the Big Ten’s decision to postpone fall sports as “the correct one.”
“Athletic Department staff have worked…
