Michigan's 2020 Big Ten football schedule was released Wednesday, along with the rest of the conference.
Nicholas Stoll
Summer Managing Sports Editor
Football
Despite being optimistic about conference-only play, Chris and Mya Hinton still have concerns.
Michigan answered one of the many questions surrounding this year’s uncertain situation for fall sports on Wednesday, releasing its plan for football tickets.
This fall, there will be no season tickets and no tickets open to the general public. Instead, individual game tickets will be sold to a mix of season ticket holders and students as capacity permits — a number still undecided.
On Thursday afternoon, just one day after he went viral for saying, “There’s no expert view right now that I’m aware of that sports is going to make (COVID-19) worse,” Jim Harbaugh sat down for a Zoom call with all of his players’ parents.
In a decision that created more questions than it answered, the Big Ten Conference ruled in favor of a conference-only schedule for all fall sports on Thursday.
Questions raised after Big Ten statement on football schedule.
Just one day after Jim Harbaugh said he would “want the responsibility of keeping our players safe and educating them” by having a football season, the Big 10 is planning to play a conference-only schedule, if the season happens at all.
As first reported by ESPN, the ruling will extend to all fall sports, affecting men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, field hockey and volleyball.
Jim Harbaugh said he never saw, or heard, anything inappropriate surrounding the late Dr. Robert Anderson, the former University of Michigan doctor accused of sexual abuse by an ever-growing number of people, including ex-football players.
Harbaugh’s current contract, which runs until the end of the 2021 season, would see him paid $8.05 million this year if not for a 10 percent pay cut agreed to due to the financial deficit facing the athletic department. Instead, Harbaugh will get $7.245 million this year.
Harbaugh holds hopes to play fall season.