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College Athletics, as we know it, are done as soon as no football takes place. Power 5 might all survive. G5 many, if not most won't. Learfield/Img won't be able to honor contracts. Not possible.
Wait for ESPN to follow soon afterward.
Saying we do play...If only 25% of the stadium is full, wouldn't that mean more eyeballs are watching on tv? Seems like ESPN and the like would love a scenario like that. And help them pay the bills. So you know the networks are going to push for it. They definitely have a seat at the table of the decision makers.
If we are going to play, it's going to take real leadership. And balls.
You need leadership that is not afraid to be criticized when the mob comes after them for making a decision to play in spite of positive cases.
Somebody has to step and say we're playing and we know there will be positive cases. If the response to positive cases is to not play, we might as well cancel it all now.
I'm really surprised there hasn't been a real push for players being paid leading up to this season. Seems they'd be all over it and use this "dangerous" virus to their advantage
I say shut the whole education system down until we have a vaccine..... furlough all employees and mothball all of the buildings.
If we don't play, and SEC network revenue comes into question, it could really put a kink in the current athletic budgets.
I think the season starts with some fans in attendance, then at some point the remainder either gets cancelled entirely, or fans no longer allowed at games.
Could be. But I think based on the fact that they are playing soccer in Europe right now and baseball with fans in attendance that a season will happen. I've seen some fear mongerers saying MLB can't decide how to handle COVID when the reality is they could be playing right now if they weren't fighting over money and are practicing right now.
But here's the thing to remember- two months from now people will be even less scared than they are now. The media can only cry wolf so much.
It's not the people being afraid that I think will be the problem. It will be the media trumpeting about that guy that went to a game at Oklahoma State and got sick. Now the media has no way to prove that the guy didn't get COVID at the game but we're going to assume that's where he got it because it wasn't a protest and therefore wrong.