Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

Meanwhile an entire school (Division II Urbana) just closed its doors today and there's talk from the UConn pres that fall college sports won't happen this year. We're going to lose a shit ton of athletics departments if that occurs.

 

They'll touch the rock and catch the virus instead.

 

Maybe the bright side (BRIGHTSIDE!!!) is, a few Triple-A teams hang on and in 2022 we get pro-rel baseball.

 

My wife just got back from going to the office to pick up some files. She told me there's a youth travel team running a full-on practice at a nearby baseball field complex. She guessed about 15 kids on the field, coaches, parents sitting in lawn chairs watching.

 

Urbana won't be the only one. There are several smaller, private colleges that simply can't stand this.
Reason 1,674 why Trumpists love this virus.

 

Urbana’s been a branch campus of a different institution for a couple of years now.

 

Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson: “Unless [universities] are in full mode with dormitories and housing and all the other facilities open, we won’t have college athletics."

https://www.idahostatesman.com/spor...ty/boise-state-football/article242155541.html

 

Did they just renegotiate the TV contracts, or is that coming up in the next year or two?
If the latter, that's when the NFL will feel the pinch. When the networks can't afford to pay the big money you'll either see a seismic shift to an online streaming model or a dramatic reduction/correction in rights fees.

 

Brady can throw to Gronk with both wearing full body condoms. That's the only way it will happen in 2020.

 

Because it’s stupid. Just cut their salary. By furloughing then you basically stop them from recruiting. I mean, they won’t stop, but technically you’re telling them they have to.