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Northwestern winter sport athletes react to postponement of fall sports, look ahead to their own seasons

Ever since the Big Ten’s postponement of fall sports on August 11, reactions from several different groups, particularly from those involved with college football, have run the gamut.

A number of players, including some Northwestern athletes, took to Twitter supporting the #WeWantToPlay movement. Some Big Ten football parents, led by Ohio State defensive back Shaun Wade’s father Randy, traveled to conference headquarters in Rosemont, Illinois, to demand a meeting with commissioner Kevin Warren. Most recently, news broke that eight players on the Nebraska football team filed a lawsuit the Big Ten, which is even more notable given the school’s public flirtation with the idea of attempting to play a season this fall despite the B1G’s postponement.