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

We deserve to see a list of all profitable football programs. You're self-sustaining and don't suckle the public teat? Great, you may stay. The rest, GTFO - we have bigger shit to worry about.

 

Yep. If you're in the MAC, the best you can reasonably do is the Motor City Bowl. Your job is to lose twice to Big Ten teams, collecting some revenue for your trouble and doing your part to make as many Big Ten teams bowl-eligible as possible.
If you're in the Sun Belt, the best you can reasonably do is the New Orleans Bowl. Your job is to lose twice to the SEC, collecting some revenue for your trouble and doing your part to make as many SEC teams bowl-eligible as possible.

The MAC in particular is troubling. Among the reasons you have a football team is to boost enrollment, particularly male enrollment if your numbers are out of balance and you're a state school. Seven of the current 12 MAC members have suffered declines in undergraduate enrollment this decade. Ten of the 12 have experienced declines in male enrollment.

 

He must want a bunch of likes from the blue check marks on Twitter.

 

Then you'll be lucky if you get to double digits.

 

Somebody should ask UConn if this football thing was a good idea.
Institutional assistance, which takes the form of student fees and other sources, accounted for 20%

Never cared about Bedlam. I do now. Go Sooners. Viewing your players are humans rather than vectors of economic activity for Trump? What a concept.

 

The comments are pretty fun, which isn't surprising.

 

According to the filings with the Dept of Education, two of the 127 reporting FBS schools for FY 19 were honest enough to report a loss. They are San Diego State and South Alabama. A total of 72 reported a profit. And the other 53 were all -- magically -- right at net $0. Such great fiscal planning on their part, I'm sure.

 

More conferences are slashing the fields at their postseason events -- saw Atlantic 10 and Southern Conference this morning when perusing papers. SoCon is making it so baseball teams must play three-game conferences series over two days to save on hotel costs. Conference USA is really, really seeing the folly of having a league that includes a team in Norfolk and another in El Paso.

How much does West Virginia hate this move to the Big 12 now? Sure, it's great for the revenue sports, but there isn't a bus trip in that league for them. Now that the football spigot is turned off, having to make nine plane trips a year for women's volleyball doesn't look as great.

 

Sports will be the needle that bursts the sports bubble.

 

53 schools clearly have outstanding accounting education programs.

 

Ah. the good ol' days of the Sun Belt Conference, with teams in Denver and Miami.

 

It is being reported that baseball will return with a shorter schedule, possibly eighty games.