Pac-12 players threaten to sit out 2020 season over health concerns, medical coverage, racial injustice - CBS Sports

A group of Pac-12 football players published a list of demands on The Players Tribune that they want met ahead of the 2020 season.

The list of demands ranges from ensuring players' safety -- as they're being asked to take the field during the COVID-19 pandemic -- to an equitable share in revenue generated by college football and ending racial injustice in college sports and society.

Due to COVID-19 and other serious concerns, we will opt-out of Pac-12 fall camp and game participation unless the following demands are guaranteed in writing by our conference to protect and benefit both scholarship athletes and walk-ons," the statement reads.

Protecting all sports, not just football: The players also want all sports to be protected.

Racial injustice: When it comes to racial injustice, the players want the Pac-12 to form "a permanent civic-engagement task force made up of our leaders, experts of our choice, and university and conference administrators to address outstanding issues such as racial injustice in college sports and in society." They also want 2% of conference revenue "support financial aid for low-income Black students, community initiatives and development programs for college athletes on each campus." They also seek to see the Pac-12 form an annual Pac-12 Black College Athlete Summit that would include at least three athletes chosen by the players from every school.

The players also want fair market pay, rights and freedoms, summarized by the following six demands

Huma, an advocate of college athletes' rights, played linebacker at UCLA and also serves as the founder and president of the College Athletes Players Association

While the story published by The Players Tribune does not specify how many players are involved, one anonymous staff member at a Pac-12 program told ESPN the group could consist of hundreds of players from several different Pac-12 schools