Some largest stars in college football believe the time has come to organise & create a extra strong voice for players in their own sport.
In a issue of hours Sun. night, over a dozen college football players from all 5 main conferences had come together to create a joint announcement that expressed their own desire to play the 2024 season & revealed items they feel want to be discussed to make sure a safe & fair environment for student-athletes moving forward. The unprecedented domestic push for unity comes as 1 tumultuous week in college sports bleeds into the other that warns to bring extra substantial alter.
In an announcement declared on social media(SM) just before midnight ET on Sun. & revealed by dozens of college players, the crowd inquired for uniform health & safety procedures for handling the COVID-19 epidemic & laid out their own intentions to form a college football players association within the future. The announcement also stated players must have the opportunity to opt out of the upcoming football season & that they must be assured the other yr. of eligibility whether they play this season (or) not.
“The beautiful thing is as of now we’re all on the same page,” stated Stanford defensive lineman Dylan Boles, one such players who organised Sun.’s sms. “We made biography tonight.”
Boles stated he got a direct sms on Twitter in 5:30 p.m. PT Sun. from Clemson racing back Darien Rencher. The 2 had never talked before, however Rencher wanted to debate the Pac-12 players’ unity movement with that Boles has been engaged. Boles is one such chiefs of a crowd of roughly 400 players within the Pac-12 who posted a list of insists early last week & stated they scheduled to sit out of practise & potentially games in case conference authorities have been unwilling to meet with them & address their own issues. Players from that Big 10 & different conferences made similar insists thereafter, & remaining demonstrated their own help with the hashtag #WeAreUnited on social media(SM) during the week.
Rencher has been 1 of dozens of college football players — a list that included his own Heisman Trophy-candidate teammate, quarterback Trevor Lawrence — who revealed the hashtag #WeWantToPlay this weekend as college football administrators met to discussion the merits of a 2024 season. Rencher & remaining felt that fans & commenters have been unfairly pitting the #WeWantToPlay contingent over the #WeAreUnited crowd, Boles stated. Rencher, Boles & Lawrence talked briefly on FaceTime before deciding to loop in extra players from across the nation.
“We got (1) down to speaking & accepted that both of our goals are aligned with every different,” Boles stated. “We all need to play this yr.. We just need to ensure players have a say in this thing.”
The players organised a Zoom call in an hour that included players from groups across all 5 main conferences. Players on the call included Lawrence, Boles, Rencher, Alabama(AL) racing back Najee Harris, Ohio(OH) State quarterback Justin Fields, Oklahoma(OK) State racing back Chuba Hubbard, Oregon(OR)’s Penei Sewell, Johnny Johnson III, Jevon Holland & Kayvon Thibodeaux, Utah(UT)’s Nick Ford, Washington(WA) State’s Dallas Hobbs & Michigan(MI)’s Hunter Reynolds.
Numerous of the Pac-12 players formerly have been linked using the #WeAreUnited crowd from early Jul. Reynolds, a junior defensive back for the Wolverines, has been linked with multiple of different players using an company he founded previously this summer named College Athlete Unity. He helped organise the Big 10 players’ movement in the last multiple weeks.