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

The ages are pretty easy to find. Whether it's legitimate or not I couldn't tell you but they are pretty open about their age and rugby background.

 

And, as you probably know, they're still paying their old AD.

I'm worried about NC State as well. Don't have the donors that UNC/Duke have. They did recently get a new Wolfpack Club president. He needs to saddle up to James Goodnight, though that ship might have sailed.

 

Nah, not really.

It has to do with the NCAA's illegality, its thievery and that sort of business.

Don't insist on overthinking this, dear Alma.

 

Not worried at all about NCSU. And if the Wolfpack Club was sucked into a black hole, humanity would be better off.

 

Yeah They've got ACC TV money to fall back on so they're probably OK.

 

The way I see it, ACCN has put the conference's athletic department into the sort of territory where if they can't manage the resources, they're really doing something wrong.

Sure, a booster club helps ... Chapel Hill spent $21 million attempting to discredit the NCAA while the multi-decade academic fraud investigation was ongoing and another eight digits to write a check to send Larry Fedora packing. But I suspect smart budgeting will help departments not only meet budget, but salt some cash away for a rainy day, to pay off the balance of a high-profile coach's contract or maybe a pandemic.

And NCSU will need to lawyer up trying to defend $40K Adidas reportedly handed Dennis Smith Jr. through Orlando Early and other such things during Mark Gottfried's tenure.

 

But the Pack is really gonna be good this year. This is their year. I read it in The Maven/SI. So it has to be true and not written with any hint of boosterism.

 

I’m not @The Big Ragu, but I’m pretty sure that’s Deutsche marks.

 

Iowa State games are going to be exclusive.

 

I would pay Pitt to be restricted from attending games and being around that idiot fanbase.

 

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Will student tickets be sold?

 

College sports would be far better in the long run if more conferences adopted the MAC's streamlining/elimination of conference tournaments and then maintained those formats after the virus has abated.

What is Iowa State going to do about visiting players families? No tickets sold to the visiting team?