Their going to lose a significant amount of money and their teams will not be as competitive as it will hurt their recruiting. Not sure about media deals
Will the BIG10 Reverse Their Decision?
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Their going to lose a significant amount of money and their teams will not be as competitive as it will hurt their recruiting. Not sure about media deals
I would generally agree with you but Iowa killing 4 sports from this makes me think twins is partially right. They have a 40MM bigger budget than us but killed 4 sports that cost a couple million combined.
Men's and women's swimming and diving which is actually a huge deal given the history and resources in the program, mens tennis and men's gymnastics. All permanent
They can't afford to maintain the pool either. So they drained it and started the nation's first club teams for men's and women's extreme skateboarding and razor scootering.
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Missed opportunity. Could have filled it with cornstarch and chicken stock and made it part of a basketball attendance promotion. First 200 people into Carver get to swim in the gravy pool with Fran.
Another thing you have to keep in mind is that the B1G Network is going to take a bath in this whole deal. Think of the advertising contracts they have sold and now you are losing fall sorts for sure and there is a real good chance b ball is gone too. Those companies are going to want to recoup some serious money. This is basically going to assure that the B1G gets dropped by most cable providers outside of the B1G footprint. Plus when the contracts expire, the cable companies will hold the leverage regarding how much they will be willing to pay to carry the B1G Network. This whole debacle is bad news for their future conference revenue.
I don't think it'll hurt as bad as it could seem but its definitely not going to help recruiting.
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Yeah, but if you do the last 200, Fran won't have time to towel off before the game starts.
I'm actually on this side of thinking too. The major downside is visits but I don't think that's something they can't overcome. Some recruits pick schools without visiting. The high school seniors of 2021 will think "this will get resolved by the time I'm on campus."
No, they've already deemed it unsafe. At this point I don't know how they have a hoops season either.
They've painted themselves in a corner that only a vaccine can safely rescue them from. Nothing about their "why" changes until the virus is gone. I can't see how they play any sports this academic year.
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Not too late, but they're not going to do it. Reverting just throws more gasoline on the dumpster fire.