Coronavirus Pandemic Impacts

[sleeperpick]

A counter proposal to cutting sports- adding sports saves schools money:
https://www.sportico.com/2020/leagu...e-adding-sports-not-dropping-them-1234608297/
an interesting read

Interesting read for sure. I agree with the Western Kentucky Econ professor though who advocating for turning non revenue generating sports into club. We have 3 too many for my liking. Get rid of them

 

[Five Two]

Stanford will discontinue men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men’s volleyball and wrestling after this season

 

[Pablo]

Stanford will discontinue men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men’s volleyball and wrestling after this season

https://news.stanford.edu/2020/07/08/athletics/?utm_source=athletics&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=an:

"Why these 11 sports?
These 11 sports were decided upon after a comprehensive evaluation of all of our sports across a broad set of criteria and considerations, including, but not limited to:

• Sponsorship of the sport at the NCAA Division I level
• National youth and postgraduate participation in the sport
• Local and national fan interest in the sport
• Potential expense savings from the elimination of the sport
• Incremental investments required to keep or put the sport in a position to achieve competitive excellence on the national level
• History of the sport at Stanford
• Prospects for future success of the sport at Stanford
• Impact on gender equity and Title IX compliance
• Impact on the diversity of our student-athlete population
• Impact on the student-athlete experience across all sports, now and in the future

For example, simply looking at sponsorship of the sports at a national level as one consideration:

• Of the 11 sports being discontinued, six (lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming) are not NCAA-sponsored championship sports.

• All 11 sports being discontinued are sponsored by less than 22% of the more than 350 Division I institutions, and nine (men’s and women’s fencing, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, co-ed and women’s sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men’s volleyball) are sponsored by less than 9%.

• There are only two other Division I field hockey programs on the West Coast, and there are no other fencing, lightweight rowing, sailing, squash or synchronized swimming programs on the West Coast.

Many of these sports currently compete without a full complement of scholarships (e.g. wrestling), coaches and resources. After careful analysis, we concluded there was no realistic path to ensuring that they have all of the resources needed to compete at the highest level without hindering our ability to support our other 25 varsity sports.

All of the impacted sports will have the opportunity to compete at the club level after their upcoming varsity seasons are complete, assuming sufficient student interest, but will need to do so in a financially self-sustaining manner that ensures the safety and well-being of the participants. We will immediately begin working with the student-athletes, parents, alumni and supporters of these sports to work toward providing robust opportunities for participation at the club level."

 

[Pablo]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nc...y League is,could be a sign of things to come.:

"The Athletic reported that the Ivy League is set to announce that they are moving fall sports to the spring, which includes football. Obviously, a conference from the Football Championship Subdivison moving to the spring won’t interrupt the top of the football hierarchy all that much but it could be a sign of things to come."

 

[JimP]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/ivy-league-moving-fall-sports-to-spring-may-be-a-sign-of-things-to-come-for-college-football/ar-BB16rj6r#:~:text=The Athletic reported that the Ivy League is,could be a sign of things to come.:

"The Athletic reported that the Ivy League is set to announce that they are moving fall sports to the spring, which includes football. Obviously, a conference from the Football Championship Subdivison moving to the spring won’t interrupt the top of the football hierarchy all that much but it could be a sign of things to come."

Will spring sports be moved to the fall? Lots less contact in baseball and softball.

 

[JPgmuswim]

Ivy League won’t have any sports played until Jan 1st. Guess their Basketball season isn’t starting until conference play?

 

[Pablo]

Brett McMurphy
@Brett_McMurphy

Nearly 3/4 of FBS ADs believe football season will be delayed & 36% say it will be only conference games in
@Stadium’s survey of all 130 FBS ADs. In April only 1 AD said there wouldn’t be a season. This week 8 ADs predict no season in 2020-21 academic year


Almost 75% of FBS ADs Believe College Football Will Be Delayed - Stadium
"One death and we will all regret pushing this competitive envelope so hard."
watchstadium.com
9:57 AM · Jul 9, 2020

 

[Pablo]

A10 Talk

@A10Talk
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18h

With the Ivy League just announcing they will not hold sporting events until at least January 1, here's the A-10 non-conference schedules will be affected:
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Daniel Frank

@n1a2v3y4
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A-10 schools with non-conference games scheduled against Ivy League teams:
GW (Brown)
UMass (Harvard, at Yale)
Fordham (Harvard)
La Salle (Penn)
Rhode Island (Brown)
Saint Joseph's (Penn)
St. Bona (Yale)

 

[GMUYoda]

Big Ten, per sources,is going for conference games only for all fall sports including football.

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-moving-conference-only-model-all-sports-fall

The Big Ten decided on Thursday that a conference-only season for all fall sports, including football, is the most likely outcome, a source with knowledge of the discussions told ESPN.

If college football can be played this fall, Big Ten presidents and athletics directors prefer playing a conference-only schedule, which would eliminate some long-distance travel and help ensure that their teams are being tested for coronavirus universally, multiple sources inside the league and around college football told ESPN.

Some Big Ten schools preferred playing only conference foes with one additional non-league game, which would preserve some of its marquee non-Big Ten matchups, but there is overwhelming support for a 10-game conference-only schedule, the sources said.

Big Ten presidents and athletics directors discussed the issues during a conference call earlier this week, and the league's head coaches were given an opportunity to weigh in on Thursday morning.

A decision to play only conference games might be announced as early as this week, the sources said.

An assistant coach at a Big Ten program told ESPN that his head coach instructed him to stop scouting and preparing for nonconference opponents and focus only on Big Ten foes.

The Big Ten's potential decision to play only conference opponents would affect 36 scheduled opponents, including 28 from the FBS and eight from the FCS. Six FBS schools -- Ball State, Bowling Green, BYU, Central Michigan, UConn and Northern Illinois -- are scheduled to play two Big Ten opponents this season.

The Big Ten would lose marquee nonconference matchups, including Michigan's road game at Washington on Sept. 5, Ohio State's trip to Oregon on Sept. 12, Michigan State's home game against Miami on Sept. 26, and Wisconsin's contest against Notre Dame at Lambeau Field on Oct. 3.

ESPN's Adam Rittenberg contributed to this story.

 

[Pablo]

Jon Rothstein
@JonRothstein

The Mountain West, Conference-USA, and the Sun Belt have all received PPP loans. The financial issues in college sports are only going to get worse if revenue sports do not play this year.



Tom Brady’s TB12 and Floyd Mayweather’s promotions company among PPP recipients
Five MLS clubs and many national governing bodies for Olympic sports were all approved for loans.
washingtonpost.com
12:07 PM · Jul 9, 2020

 

[Pablo]

https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2020/07/dartmouth-announces-changes-varsity-athletics-program:

"To better balance the makeup of incoming undergraduate classes and help ease a budget deficit made worse by the pandemic, Dartmouth today announced changes to its varsity athletics program.

The changes, which will eliminate five varsity athletic teams and a number of staff positions, will give Dartmouth more flexibility in admissions, reducing the number of recruited athletes in incoming classes by 10%. The move also contributes to the steps Dartmouth is taking to address budget challenges, including a projected $150 million financial deficit brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The teams to be eliminated, effective immediately, are men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's golf, and men's lightweight rowing, dropping to 30 the number of varsity teams. A total of about 110 student-athletes participate on these five teams."

 

[Pablo]

Brett McMurphy
@Brett_McMurphy
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4m

ACC football also expected to play conference-only games, sources told @Stadium. Last month, ACC commish John Swofford told @Stadium if Power 5 schools played conference-only schedules that ACC would assist Notre Dame with as many games as it needed

 

[GMUgemini]

Brett McMurphy
@Brett_McMurphy
·
4m

ACC football also expected to play conference-only games, sources told @Stadium. Last month, ACC commish John Swofford told @Stadium if Power 5 schools played conference-only schedules that ACC would assist Notre Dame with as many games as it needed

This is really going to screw up the finances of the non-P5 teams who rely on those buy games...same thing would happen for basketball, too.

 

[Five Two]

A counter proposal to cutting sports- adding sports saves schools money:
https://www.sportico.com/2020/leagu...e-adding-sports-not-dropping-them-1234608297/
an interesting read

I've gone back and read this and think this accounting is flawed. Admittedly, I am bias. Anyone who has been on these boards for a while knows I'm for getting to the min sports required to stay in DI and be Title IX compliant. I dont think we'll see any changes at Mason since our new President just started. Doubt he wants to cut sports during the first 2 months on the job.

Back to the article. This accounting makes some assumptions that I think are incorrect. It assumes that the number of athletes paying full or partial tuition would not be replaced by non-athlete students. Lets say we cut sailing and bocce and that impacts 50 athletes. It doesnt mean the enrollment of the school decreases by 50. The school fills those 50 spots with students who are going to pay full tuition. Additionally, these new 50 students don't have costs of a coach, trainer, travel, uniforms, etc associated with them. Adding sports may net the school some money, but cutting sports nets the school the most money.
Again, I'm bias, but am I missing something?

 

[Pablo]

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29434331/acc-delay-all-fall-sports-least-sept-1:

"The ACC will delay the start of competition for all fall sports until at least Sept. 1, the league announced Thursday. The move, which follows a similar decision by the Patriot League, will affect several sports, including soccer and field hockey, but not football.

The decision was unanimously approved by the ACC board of directors.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports...avirus-testing-stress-threat-athletic-budgets
The league said that affected games might be rescheduled and that there's an understanding that cancellation of nonconference games will not result in financial penalties.

The ACC's decision to delay the start of the fall season is the first by a Power 5 conference. The Patriot League has pushed its start back until Sept. 4, and the Ivy League announced the cancellation of all fall sports earlier this week.

The ACC's football schedule is set to begin on Sept. 2 when NC State visits Louisville."

 

[GSII]

But not football. of coarse. the one sport you spit all over each other in is fine to play. greedy f**ks.

 

[Pablo]

I've gone back and read this and think this accounting is flawed. Admittedly, I am bias. Anyone who has been on these boards for a while knows I'm for getting to the min sports required to stay in DI and be Title IX compliant. I dont think we'll see any changes at Mason since our new President just started. Doubt he wants to cut sports during the first 2 months on the job.

Back to the article. This accounting makes some assumptions that I think are incorrect. It assumes that the number of athletes paying full or partial tuition would not be replaced by non-athlete students. Lets say we cut sailing and bocce and that impacts 50 athletes. It doesnt mean the enrollment of the school decreases by 50. The school fills those 50 spots with students who are going to pay full tuition. Additionally, these new 50 students don't have costs of a coach, trainer, travel, uniforms, etc associated with them. Adding sports may net the school some money, but cutting sports nets the school the most money.
Again, I'm bias, but am I missing something?

"If a university isn’t enrolled at max capacity, as most aren’t, some smaller sports like men’s track & field or women’s lacrosse actually make money for the school because of the number of athletes who pay their own way.

This reasoning may be more important now as universities begin to cope with two side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. First, enrollment is expected to drop significantly across the country."

 

[gmutom]

Lets say we cut sailing and bocce and that impacts 50 athletes ...
Again, I'm bias, but am I missing something?

You're asking the wrong person. Not only did I not realize we had a sailing and bocce team, I can't help but wonder how they stop the balls from sinking.

 

[Walter]

This is really going to screw up the finances of the non-P5 teams who rely on those buy games...same thing would happen for basketball, too.

Just an added benefit in the eyes of the P5 conferences. This is a trial run to cut non-P5 schools out.

 

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