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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    Football loses money. I don't think Volsrock realizes how much tuition brings in compared to what sports loses.
    What? Networks pay billions for the rights to college athletics, the largest part by far is football, and Universities lose money on it? College football funds most athletic departments. Schools are losing millions and millions of dollars not playing right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    According to Jeff Potrykus from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, while the announcement timing hasn’t been, that the Big Ten is returning has been confirmed, with it being an eight-game schedule to be played in a nine-week timeframe.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/wolveri...20-season/amp/
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    Because, science lol.

    Or maybe because Trump got onto them about not playing. Or maybe because they didn’t see body bags piled outside of other Power 5 stadiums, many teams of which have already played 2 games.

    The rebellion is just starting.
    They saw other teams making money while they were not.

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    Colleges have lots of athletes who are not interested in school. They want to be seen by pro teams. If the Big 10 did not open, who would commit to them. When others started playing, they had to fold.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    Colleges have lots of athletes who are not interested in school. They want to be seen by pro teams. If the Big 10 did not open, who would commit to them. When others started playing, they had to fold.
    Nothing to do with the parents, the players, the coaches, the fans wanting the season to resume?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    "Football" does not lose money. The university loses money on football.
    That’s asinine. (We’re talking the big P5 schools here). Football is a massive revenue generator and yes there are schools that have shown correlation between the football team’s performance and an increase in students applying to the school.

    Many athletic departments at Universities aren’t profitable but we’re talking football not athletic departments as a whole.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    Cowardly decision.

    Illogical decision. Play one game. Everything ok? Play another. Etc. The chicken shits waited till the other conferences started and once they saw ‘nothing much COVID wise’ was going on, then they started thinking about lost revenue.

    Next step, fill the stadiums.
    Big Ten football will be played, but there will be no fans in the stands. When the Big Ten kicks off its season the weekend of Oct. 24, it will do it from empty stadiums as the conference has decided not to sell tickets to the public for the 2020-21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    That’s asinine. (We’re talking the big P5 schools here). Football is a massive revenue generator and yes there are schools that have shown correlation between the football team’s performance and an increase in students applying to the school.

    Many athletic departments at Universities aren’t profitable but we’re talking football not athletic departments as a whole.
    To get a great athletic department costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and generates almost as much money... But that is called losing money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    To get a great athletic department costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and generates almost as much money... But that is called losing money.
    Football and athletic departments are two different things. You said football loses money and for many of the big schools that is not correct. Football revenue subsidizes most athletic departments and other sports. Most sports bring in little revenue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    They just didn’t want to miss out on the TV payday

    Time will tell if it is the right or wrong decision, hard to believe they can keep hundred traveling college kids in a tight enough bubble to prevent problems, LSU certainly couldn’t
    The hysterics behind this covid bullshit is mind bending.

    Are you staying indoors, asshives?
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    Quote Originally Posted by signalmankenneth View Post
    Big Ten football will be played, but there will be no fans in the stands. When the Big Ten kicks off its season the weekend of Oct. 24, it will do it from empty stadiums as the conference has decided not to sell tickets to the public for the 2020-21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic
    We’ll see how long they keep the fans out lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Football and athletic departments are two different things. You said football loses money and for many of the big schools that is not correct. Football revenue subsidizes most athletic departments and other sports. Most sports bring in little revenue.
    Where would OU be without football. All you have to do is drive through Norman to see the effects of “football” money on that little town. Right now I’m at a hotel in Stillwater. My son has a personal honors tour and recruiting visit and even though they would like to pay him to come here because of his brain part of the tour is to take him through the stadium and sports facilities and to talk about how much fun game days are. Football does not lose money at these two schools.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    Where would OU be without football. All you have to do is drive through Norman to see the effects of “football” money on that little town. Right now I’m at a hotel in Stillwater. My son has a personal honors tour and recruiting visit and even though they would like to pay him to come here because of his brain part of the tour is to take him through the stadium and sports facilities and to talk about how much fun game days are. Football does not lose money at these two schools.
    Maybe I missed something earlier in the thread but I have no idea where he's getting this idea that big schools lose money on football.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    Maybe I missed something earlier in the thread but I have no idea where he's getting this idea that big schools lose money on football.
    You didn't miss anything...He's just wrong

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    Where would OU be without football. All you have to do is drive through Norman to see the effects of “football” money on that little town. Right now I’m at a hotel in Stillwater. My son has a personal honors tour and recruiting visit and even though they would like to pay him to come here because of his brain part of the tour is to take him through the stadium and sports facilities and to talk about how much fun game days are. Football does not lose money at these two schools.
    Good luck to him! What an achievement.
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    ld ...fortune.com › 2020/08/10 › college-football-cancelled-...
    Aug 10, 2020 - College football generates more than $4 billion in annual revenue for the 65 universities making up the Power 5, according to data provided to ...

    Difficult to lose money with 4 billion dollars coming in.

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