Michigan Football: Coaches, players unite in push for 2020 season

Michigan football coaches and players joined the #WeWantToPlay and #WeWantToCoach movements as they hope the 2020 season isn’t canceled.

Momentum for a college football season is growing slowly and so are the potential problems that are likely to cancel it even before it can be given a chance.

Monday was an eventful day for the sport to say the least. A social media protest advanced its movement over the weekend in an attempt to try and save the season for so many of those who live and breathe the gift of football on a daily basis. Michigan football coaches and players joined in the act, expressing their hope and desire for a season.

It’s not a guarantee that it will help, but any sort of unification for something positive to resolve this is a giant step in the right direction.

Players and coaches from power five conferences alike stated their cases for a season this fall. Several coaches put out remarks and the #WeWantToPlay hashtag started circulating, a group connected to Michigan football player Hunter Reynolds.

However, the reasons against their wishful thinking are being outweighed heavily by the people who must figure out whether to let them play at all. It’s an unpopular position that no person would ever want to be in, to decide the fate of thousands of young student-athletes, yet here it is.

Jim Harbaugh made some plausible remarks regarding the current circumstances. He is taking the pandemic seriously and the results are noticeable.

His team is safely and respectfully being taking care of every day. Even the parents of these newly minted adults are showing their support on social media. They are fully behind the program and how they are treating their loved ones away from home in this trying time.

Aidan Hutchinson and his father, along with other players sent out highly regarded messages basically backing the words made by coach Harbaugh on Twitter.

New safeties coach Bob Shoop and Josh Gattis joined in on the fray by using the hashtag #WeWantToCoach.

Adding that to the already trending #WeWantToPlay hashtag means they are sending a strong, united message that anyone involved with this game wants a season to happen despite the chaos surrounding it.

Meanwhile, the Mountain West and MAC conferences hope to resume in the spring and that brings up more scathing issues.

Draftable players would simply skip the spring, as a handful are now, to focus on the NFL career that beckons them. It would completely water down college football as we know it and leave an asterisk on the 2020 season.

The only realistic solutions to this are to delay the start by a month or so or impatiently wait a year until fall 2021.

Either way, it is seemingly going to be the wrong thing to do unless it goes off without a hiccup and the percentage of that happening is slim to none. Whichever way this life-changing verdict goes will without question disrupt the foundation of college football for ages to come.