Report: Small Protest by Parents Reflects Concerns of Majority of People Inside Big Ten Programs

I laughed off the protest. It was made up of around 25 parents of Big Ten football players that happened last Saturday. It was funny to me. I couldn’t help but think that the players who had parents attend the protest were a little bit embarrassed by the whole thing. You know how parents can do that to their kids.

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Many on social media belittled the protest as ineffective and a waste of time. It could be true.

However, the protest takes on a whole different meaning when ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg reported that the concerns the parents voiced during that protest is actually shared by the majority of people he talked to that work for Big Ten programs.