"While I appreciate the complexities and difficulties of this decision for the leaders of our conference, I am extremely frustrated because we still have very few answers to communicate to our young men and their families."
The former Penn State hockey forward became an unrestricted free agent this past Sunday.
"I absolutely see a spring season being viable for football and all of our fall sports. We turned to that pretty quickly Tuesday afternoon and evening."
"We, the football players of the Big Ten, together with the fans and supporters of college football, request that the Big Ten Conference immediately reinstate the 2020 football season."
"We cannot now, at this point, have fall NCAA championships because there's not enough schools participating."
With Staes' commitment, Penn State now has the second-best 2022 recruiting class in the Big Ten and the third-best in the nation.