Bursting the Bubble: Why Sports Aren't Coming Back Soon

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I don’t know. In a world where you can have breakfast in Europe and be home for dinner in New York, sports stadiums and games is just one of many, many problems. No more air travel? Weddings, funerals, parties, Broadway, graduations etc, etc etc. Subway, buses. All of them are problematic in a “pandemic”.
 
This is probably about right. With any luck, baseball will be the next team sport to start up normal operations with a delayed opening in 2021. With a lot of luck, maybe it starts on-time.
 
I find the popularity of esports surreal and dystopian but it looks like my League of Legends account will be getting a major workout the rest of this year.
 
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Curious to what the board thinks regarding college basketball for next season. Business as usual vs modified schedule or delay/cancellation?
 
[quote="nycfan" post=385102]Curious to what the board thinks regarding college basketball for next season. Business as usual vs modified schedule or delay/cancellation?[/quote]

I do not see business as usual. At best, there could be games played with no fans. Otherwise, I think it's possible the entire season is cancelled.
 
Yeah, this is basically a once a century phenomenon. Hence, ideal options are impossible and even the trade-off between prudent and risky very difficult to calibrate.
Can't imagine that any 'season' will not be delayed.
Hope and pray for the best.
 
Right now there is hope that the virus doesn't spread to the whole USA as first thought. If that holds you may see games in the late summer and fall in many parts of the country. As far as NYC and its surrounding areas when fans would be willing to attend a game is probably a long way off.
Could you see the Yankees, Mets , Knicks playing games somewhere in the mid or southwest?
 
I'm talking completely out of my ass here but seeing as how leagues started shutting things down in early March, common sense would dictate that college basketball the best chance of not having the following season delayed. That being said I think on on-time start to the season without fans would be an absolute best case scenario. And that's coming straight from a guy who had to go to summer school for high school bio.
 
[quote="Enright" post=385112]Right now there is hope that the virus doesn't spread to the whole USA as first thought. If that holds you may see games in the late summer and fall in many parts of the country. As far as NYC and its surrounding areas when fans would be willing to attend a game is probably a long way off.
Could you see the Yankees, Mets , Knicks playing games somewhere in the mid or southwest?[/quote]

The virus is everywhere. Here is the CSSE map from today. Certainly not as concentrated as the NY area but I think the only option would be Area 51.
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https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
 
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[quote="Paul Massell" post=385115][quote="Enright" post=385112]Right now there is hope that the virus doesn't spread to the whole USA as first thought. If that holds you may see games in the late summer and fall in many parts of the country. As far as NYC and its surrounding areas when fans would be willing to attend a game is probably a long way off.
Could you see the Yankees, Mets , Knicks playing games somewhere in the mid or southwest?[/quote]

The virus is everywhere. Here is the CSSE map from today. Certainly not as concentrated as the NY area but I think the only option would be Area 51.
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https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6[/quote]

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another article entitled:

With budgets tightening due to coronavirus fallout, will more college sports be cut?
by Pete Thamel,Yahoo Sports•April 14, 2020

With the specter of the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic looming over the collegiate landscape, tangible signs are beginning to appear of how the fiscal tightening will manifest itself.

The most stinging blow yet came Tuesday when the University of Cincinnati cut the men’s soccer program. It’s the second major college program to be cut since the start of the pandemic, as Old Dominion cut its wrestling program earlier this month.

The foreboding feeling around the college sports industry is that the cuts have just begun. One athletic director summed up the financial options for schools as ranging “from a haircut to decapitation” amid an environment where athletic department pay cuts and furloughs have become common.

“I think now that Cincinnati just did it, watch the next month,” said another athletic director from an FBS school. “They cleared the way for other people to do it. Cincinnati puts it on a different level. Unfortunately, you’re going to start to see it. When you have to right-size everything, that’s going to become a way out for a lot of these programs.”

https://sports.yahoo.com/with-budgets-tightening-will-more-college-sports-be-cut-204423901.html
 
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Major public college football programs could lose billions in revenue if no season is played
Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Published 5:24 p.m. ET April 14, 2020

Within the college sports industry, the word for now about a 2020-21 football season is optimism amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Somehow, some way, at some point, games will be played.

Right beneath the surface, however, is the knowledge that it might not be normal. Or, that it might not be at all.

At stake is at least $4.1 billion in fiscal-year revenue for the athletics departments at just the 50-plus public schools in the Power Five conferences — an average of more than $78 million per school — a USA TODAY Sports analysis of schools’ financial reports to the NCAA shows.

That’s more than 60% of these schools’ combined total annual operating revenues, based on amounts reported for the 2019 fiscal year. These estimates do not take into account potential impacts on student fees or money from schools’ general funds, both of which likely would be reduced if students cannot return to campus as usual for the fall semester. Even within the Power Five, there are schools that receive significant amounts from those sources.

[URL]https://www.usatoday.com/story...ould-see-billions-revenue-go-away/2989466001/[/URL]
 
It makes sense. The degree of non-revenue sports are a drain on finances and bring little brand value playing across the country where no one watches or cares. Sports bring diversity of student interest to campus, but it caters to such a small amount of students in a non academic way. Intramurals and club sports serve similar purpose at fraction of cost.

Heck, think how many acres of SJU campus is tield up in a baseball & softball field, track/lacrosse field and soccer field. Some di better than others.

Big $. Schools need to look everywhere to lessen the impact. Sports should not be sacred cow.
Otherwise, agree with shortened seasons, in conference only and local vs. Cross country for none rev sports for many schools.
 
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I think the nfl will kick off as scheduled. Its only mid April. They dont play till September. Things are going to start getting better real soon.
 
The only way things get back to normal is with a vaccine. that won’t happen for at least another year. And scientists are already saying the country will need to practice social distancing until at least 2022. So I don’t see how sports comes back with fans (if at all)
 
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[quote="Duke of Earlington" post=385140]I think the nfl will kick off as scheduled. Its only mid April. They dont play till September. Things are going to start getting better real soon.[/quote]

How (scientifically) do you think things are going to get better soon?
 
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