What happens to NCAA football after Covid19?

[Rock]

What programs loosing money consistently will drop football coming out of this thing? Is it just the excuse they have wanted for years?

What would that do to the levels of NCAA football? Will conference rules change/attendance?

What would it do to the MVFC? The MAC? BIG12? Super Conferences?

Where will NDSU fit?


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[TAILG8R]

What programs loosing money consistently will drop football coming out of this thing? Is it just the excuse they have wanted for years?

What would that do to the levels of NCAA football? Will conference rules change/attendance?

What would it do to the MVFC? The MAC? BIG12? Super Conferences?

Where will NDSU fit?


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I've actually been thinking this too. I believe this is happening across all industries. OF course there are many legit changes that where the direct cause of COVID but there has to be others that are linked to COVID that in reality the timing just made it easier to pull the trigger.

[ndsubison1]

It is devastating the economy and possible it takes years to recover. Even if sports are played, attendance will be down and likely donations.

[Buffalo.Rider]

It is devastating the economy and possible it takes years to recover. Even if sports are played, attendance will be down and likely donations.

By 'it' I assume you mean COVID-19.

In my mind, the 'it' is decisions by political leaders and to some extent business owners.
They are reacting to COVID-19, but how they react is a choice.
Admittedly, say in the meat processing business, business owners are compelled to shut-down until their employees recover from COVID-19.
The upside for them is that when employees recover (and the vast majority will, perhaps all if they are fortunate), they will have a disease-resistant work force.

[Bison bison]

By 'it' I assume you mean COVID-19.

In my mind, the 'it' is decisions by political leaders and to some extent business owners.
They are reacting to COVID-19, but how they react is a choice.
Admittedly, say in the meat processing business, business owners are compelled to shut-down until their employees recover from COVID-19.
The upside for them is that when employees recover (and the vast majority will, perhaps all if they are fortunate), they will have a disease-resistant work force.

That's not a certainty.

[BisonJD]

Exhibit A:

https://www.cleveland.com/education/...-pandemic.html

[Christopher Moen]

What programs loosing money consistently will drop football coming out of this thing? Is it just the excuse they have wanted for years?

What would that do to the levels of NCAA football? Will conference rules change/attendance?

What would it do to the MVFC? The MAC? BIG12? Super Conferences?

Where will NDSU fit?


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With many non P5 DI conferences petitioning the NCAA to lower the limit on the amount of sports they must field in order to remain DI eligible for the next few years, I would say it is going to be a mess. Then add in this discussion from Pat McAfee, there's a chance the NCAA becomes nonexistent in the next decade:

[Rock]

With many non P5 DI conferences petitioning the NCAA to lower the limit on the amount of sports they must field in order to remain DI eligible for the next few years, I would say it is going to be a mess. Then add in this discussion from Pat McAfee, there's a chance the NCAA becomes nonexistent in the next decade:

Interesting video I think NDSU is a power school based on the criteria they put forth in this.


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[MNLonghorn10]

Intriguing but I doubt this amounts to much. I can only see the p5 breaking away from g5 but not the ncaa. What would you do with your other sports? If the NCAA tells the p5 schools to pound sand because they don’t feel like paying for cal bears trip to Arizona st for women’s volleyball, then what’s the point of a new football league if you’re going to be paying for all of that other shit now.


Too many hoops to jump through to ever make it work.

[Christopher Moen]

I doubt it is the NCAA telling the P5 conferences to go pound sound but the other way around. If the P5 conferences break off into their own organization, the NCAA is dead financially as we know it. With the P5 conferences already taking in the $1 billion of TV revenue for Football, they stand to take the $1 billion of TV revenue the NCAA gets for Men's Basketball. That's a lot of TV revenue for just 65 schools.

If the P5 conferences were to go their own way, they could also decide on their own to only field Football and Men's Basketball for men's sports while having Women's Basketball and whatever women's sports will help them meet Title IX requirements. That's a huge cut in their athletic departments' expenditures.

For the rest of the FBS schools (G5 conferences) in the NCAA, I imagine they will learn how to function with budgets similar to NDSU's as there will no longer be a need for them to try to keep up with the "big boys."