ROSEMONT, Ill. — Randy Wade flew in from Jacksonville, Florida. Matt Farrell drove for five-and-a-half hours from Northeast Ohio. Jay Kallenberger came from Bettendorf, Iowa. Dornaj Davis rode his Harley down from Wisconsin. Andrea Tate flew from Orlando. A little before 8 a.m. Friday, in an otherwise empty entertainment district just outside Chicago, with police blocking some roads into the complex, around 20 parents of Big Ten athletes gathered for a … well, they weren’t quite sure what the plan was. Weren’t quite sure what to call it.
Was it a rally?
A protest?
A media stunt?