Texas Football: We Want to Play movement picking up steam

The #WeWantToPlay movement on Twitter picked up some real momentum over the weekend for players within the Texas football program.

The college football landscape is hitting a key point in time as to deciding if the 2020 season is a go or not. It seems like the Texas football program could soon be one of many teams around the country that would be drastically impacted by the Power Five conferences potentially making a move to cancel out the 2020 season.

The Big Ten appears to be the first to push these dominoes to fall and get the rest of the Power Five conferences to make the same move. Texas hung on for a while to be patient with their precautions put in place for the football season this fall in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

As soon as these reports started to come out about the potential moves of the Power Five conferences to cancel out fall sports, the trending posts on social media started to come about too. Texas also had a number of their football players come out in support of playing the impending 2020 college football season.

Among those that were active on social media over the weekend to support the playing of the 2020 season were rising junior cornerback D’shawn Jamison, junior safety Caden Sterns, and senior safety Josh Thompson. And that was just among the Texas defensive backs.

There was support coming from the likes of redshirt freshman wide receiver Jordan Whittington, senior defensive end Ta’Quon Graham, and redshirt sophomore wide receiver Joshua Moore.

As far as the bigger picture goes, there were some really big names that came about around the college football landscape on social media to push the #WeWantToPlay trend on Twitter. Superstar quarterbacks like Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence and Ohio State’s Justin Fields also gave their thoughts on the situation on their Twitter timelines over the weekend.

There is obviously an overwhelming level of support for and from the players in this regard to at least try and put together protocols for a 2020 season. And as it stands now, the Longhorns are still supposed to open up the 2020 season against the UTEP Miners at home on Sep. 12.

Texas finished up the 2019 season with a record of 8-5 (5-4 Big 12) after beating the Utah Utes in the Alamo Bowl. Now it appears that they’re going to have to put up a real fight just to keep the option of playing a 2020 season alive and well.