Coach Greg Schiano
Rutgers Scarlet Knights Season Cancelled
the staff of the Risdgewood blog
New Brunswick NJ, The Big Ten Conference announced the postponement of the 2020-21 fall sports season, including all regular-season contests and Big Ten Championships and Tournaments, due to ongoing health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In making its decision, which was based on multiple factors, the Big Ten Conference relied on the medical advice and counsel of the Big Ten Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee.
“Our primary responsibility is to make the best possible decisions in the interest of our students, faculty and staff,” said Morton Schapiro, Chair of the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors and Northwestern University President.
“The mental and physical health and welfare of our student-athletes has been at the center of every decision we have made regarding the ability to proceed forward,” said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren. “As time progressed and after hours of discussion with our Big Ten Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee, it became abundantly clear that there was too much uncertainty regarding potential medical risks to allow our student-athletes to compete this fall.
“We know how significant the student-athlete experience can be in shaping the future of the talented young women and men who compete in the Big Ten Conference. Although that knowledge made this a painstaking decision, it did not make it difficult. While I know our decision today will be disappointing in many ways for our thousands of student-athletes and their families, I am heartened and inspired by their resilience, their insightful and discerning thoughts, and their participation through our conversations to this point. Everyone associated with the Big Ten Conference and its member institutions is committed to getting everyone back to competition as soon as it is safe to do so.”
The fall sports included in this announcement are men’s and women’s cross country, field hockey, football, men’s and women’s soccer, and women’s volleyball. The Big Ten Conference will continue to evaluate a number of options regarding these sports, including the possibility of competition in the spring. Decisions regarding winter and spring sports will also continue to be evaluated.
The Big Ten Conference is proud of its 14 world-class research institutions and has leveraged their resources and expertise to address this pandemic over the past five months. The Big Ten Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee have engaged in extensive research and sharing of materials and conversations with federal, state and local government agencies, and professional and international sports organizations in order to track and better understand the daily updates surrounding this pandemic. Their advice and counsel have been invaluable as they have worked tirelessly over the past several months in their efforts to create and maintain a safe environment for athletics.
The Big Ten Conference will continue to work with medical experts and governmental authorities to gather additional information, evaluate emerging data and technologies, and monitor developments regarding the pandemic to make the best decisions possible for the health, safety and wellness of our student-athletes.
Big10 Conference Schools to Students: Take this year off … please! Our campuses will resemble Orwell’s 1984 and every device you own or use will be used to “trace” you.
They should do the same with high school.
Rutgers has no business in the Big10
$chiano still gets paid…
Why should the rules be different from high school and college.
The only season ever that Rutgers will go undefeated
Good. Furlough the coaching staff for the school year, too. Save some money to go to, you know, education instead of some stupid game.
Fun fact: The state’s highest paid people are Rutgers Football Coach Chris Ash, who makes around $2 million a year; Rutgers Woman’s Basketball Coach Vivian Stringer, who makes around $1 million or more a year.
Whoops. That’s from two years ago. As of 2020 the state’s highest-paid people are actually Rutgers football coach Greg Schiano, who makes around $4 million a year and Rutgers women’s basketball coach Vivian Stringer, who makes around $1 million annually.
$chiano is a fraud…
Sports are like the reward of a functioning society. We cc are not a functioning society.
Sounds like you’re jealous.
I wouldn’t send my dog to Rutgers. It’s an embarrassment to NJ that Rutgers is our flagship University..
They should play the season.
I would never send my children to Rutgers for “social” reasons.
That said, academically, Rutugers has many. many,many world class programs.
…and you can go for a song as a NJ resident.
Well some people can’t afford to send their kids to an Ivy League school. And there’s no guarantee that spending 80,000 a year that your child will perform in life
Don’t worry about fall sports. No one’s gonna have time everybody needs to clean up the lawn.