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

I shouldn't be amazed, but I am amazed that schools are increasing their investment in football, the most expensive of sports, in these financial times. Don't know how you can do that without whacking a bunch of other sports. And if you're going to do that, you had better have some cushion.

 

I don't know how FCS schools are even surviving. G5 schools pretty much live hand to mouth with football - needing those paycheck non-conference games to make their budget. Don't know how the FCS schools did it without the non-con money.

 

Grew up with an FCS state U, Delaware. I think it's just like E. Washington and N.D. St. and the other FCS biggies. It's just scaled down Ohio St. Big boosters (lotta money in Delaware), full stadium (25K instead of 100) and total domination of whatever college sports interest there is.

 

The people who irrationally used to write us demanding that both in-state Big Sky schools should jump to the WAC because “at least we’d go to a bowl and eventually the Mountain West would have to come calling” must be weeping over in their little corner of the Internet.

From a scheduling point of view, this actually helps the Big Sky schools find non-conference games against somebody other than the Missouri Valley schools and a bunch of lower-division randos.

 

Probably a good move for NMSU. They can still play UTEP and UNM in their body-bag games, and have a chance of winning a conference title. They will have one of the biggest stadiums in FCS. Unfortunately the every-other-year UNM game was the only home game that drew a crowd.

 

You were close.

 

Said it before and will again: This is going to hurt public schools immensely. Not saying it should. But it will.

 

Are high schools in California testing for COVID?
We're at the point in the virus' rage that no cases can be traced exclusively to playing football or doing any particular thing. So if several high school football players test positive, the response will be, "It's everywhere. Who knows how they got it? That was inevitable."

 

Thanks, Biden.

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