The Ivy League has cancelled all
fall sports while the Big Ten just announced conference-only games for the
fall. Schools that depend on football
and or basketball to carry its athletic departments are teetering over a very
real, if metaphorical, abyss.
No money means no sports. There’s an unstated connection between
football and the likes of volleyball, and baseball, even. If TV can’t show the big game on Saturday,
the other sports don’t get the revenue for their seasons. If football and basketball have to cancel
their seasons, adios athletic department budgets. Oh, the NFL and NBA drafts get thrown into
chaos, too.
If I’m a school president or AD, I
follow the news every day to see how the war on COVID-19 is going. Out of a rooting interest and for other
reasons, I’m also following baseball very closely. Strange times, indeed.
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