Bill Rabinowitz | Buckeye Xtra Every Ohio State player had much to lose when the Big Ten postponed its fall football season on Aug. 11. Jonathon Cooper might have been the Buckeyes’ poster child for all that looked lost. This season meant everything to the fifth-year senior defensive end from Gahanna. He had missed all but four games last year after an ankle injury sustained during training camp. He returned late in the year but chose to sit out OSU’s postseason so he could count 2019 as a redshirt season and play this year. Imagine, then, how distraught Cooper was when the Big Ten announced it wouldn’t proceed with a 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic. Well, you can’t. Cooper is an upbeat person by nature, but this was devastating. Cooper had been Ohio State’s designated player on the Big Ten’s student-athlete committee that conferred with commissioner Kevin Warren as the conference contemplated…
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