Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, along with his good friend and teammate Darien Rencher, got together with representatives from every Power 5 Conference Sunday night via Zoom and formed a coalition with the hopes of saving the 2020 football season.
Rencher, a running back for the Tigers, tweeted the alliance shortly after midnight on Monday. The coalition has representatives from the ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC and Big 12. The Pac-12 movement and the Big Ten United are also working in collaboration with the movement under the hashtags #WeAreUnited and #WeWantToPlay.
The new movement’s mission is to:
- We all want to play football this season
- Establish universal mandated health and safety procedures and protocols to protect college-athletes against COVID-19 among all conferences throughout the NCAA
- Give players the opportunity to opt out and respect their decision
- Guarantee eligibility whether a player chooses to play the season or not
- Use our voices to establish open communications and trust between players and officials; ultimately create a College Football Players Association
- Representative of the Players of all Power 5 Conferences
@Trevorlawrencee & I got together with representatives from every Power 5 conference via Zoom Call and this is what we decided upon
Pac 12 movement and #BigTenUnited were in collaboration with us.