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MAC Announces Cost-Cutting Measures

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John_J_Rambo_rivals315142

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this is not a 2020 announcement, but a permanent one

if there's no football, expect conferences like this to eliminate most, if not all, sports altogether
 
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If AD's are smart and if they can push just enough...they will do all the can to really beat the **** of of certain, ahem, sports that cost a fortune and bring in nothing at all.
 
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I know this is due to a revenue crunch, but all cold-weather, mid-major conferences would be smart not to have a conference baseball tournament. Allows more of your regular season to be played in decent weather, plus your conference champion can rest its pitching staff heading into the regionals instead of using up its best arms in a tournament. Gives them a better shot at pulling a regional upset.*

*See Yale v. Nebraska, 2017
 
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schuele said:
I know this is due to a revenue crunch, but all cold-weather, mid-major conferences would be smart not to have a conference baseball tournament. Allows more of your regular season to be played in decent weather, plus your conference champion can rest its pitching staff heading into the regionals instead of using up its best arms in a tournament. Gives them a better shot at pulling a regional upset.*

*See Yale v. Nebraska, 2017
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litespeedhuskerfan said:
Cannot help but wonder how America is going to look at all this come November. I'm hopeful it backfires so bad I cannot put it into words rigjt now.
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It is obvious from your posts that you think COVID-19 is a big joke. I have a close family member trying to recover from weeks of ICU complete with induced coma and ventilator. Most muscle mass and movement skills are lost in that time period, eating without a tube or even lifting your arm is a big deal and that is if you were lucky enough to survive. Trust me, this is not a fun thing, the emotional, physical and financial toll are very real.
 
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LBremser said:
It is obvious from your posts that you think COVID-19 is a big joke. I have a close family member trying to recover from weeks of ICU complete with induced coma and ventilator. Most muscle mass and movement skills are lost in that time period, eating without a tube or even lifting your arm is a big deal and that is if you were lucky enough to survive. Trust me, this is not a fun thing, the emotional, physical and financial toll are very real.
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Sorry to hear about your family member, my best wishes to you and your family for a quick and full recovery.

I find nothing funny about the virus or those who get it, I find the idea we can keep the world locked down to insane to be funny.
 
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litespeedhuskerfan said:
Sorry to hear about your family member, my best wishes to you and your family for a quick and full recovery.

I find nothing funny about the virus or those who get it, I find the idea we can keep the world locked down to insane to be funny.
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IF it were only this simple, if we truly could find through learning that 3-5% or whatever number gets determined are high risk. Put them on permanent disability (taxpayer funded) and shelter them in place or protect them the best we can. But you can't keep going like this. Can't be afraid of the boogie man. Because guess what, there will be a next one. Not sure what or when but there will be another
 
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Did we not pay them enough for a game that wasn't played to save those programs? Winking
 
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From everything I'm reading the football season in whatever form it comes is going to be rather fragile and constantly evaluated.

Folks are acting like if we have an opening day kick then the financial woes are over and it's a train that won't be stopped.

That's not what commissioners are saying. It's a very real possibility that the SEC plays most of a schedule because of their mindset but then you might have B1G teams that get a positive test and have randowm two and three games being missed because they quarantine or whatever before rejoining the schedule.

Or someone makes the call altogether to modify, stop, or delay part of the season until spring. It isnt going to save minor sports in most of the country if the SEC is the only major conference to play a mostly normal schedule.

The commissioners are already talking about the possibility of socially distanced seating which would radically change capacity of big time CFB and who knows what any sort of modifications would be done to tv contract money is games go un played due to quarantine or whatever comes up.
 
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LBremser said:
It is obvious from your posts that you think COVID-19 is a big joke. I have a close family member trying to recover from weeks of ICU complete with induced coma and ventilator. Most muscle mass and movement skills are lost in that time period, eating without a tube or even lifting your arm is a big deal and that is if you were lucky enough to survive. Trust me, this is not a fun thing, the emotional, physical and financial toll are very real.
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That doesn't mean causing a world wide depression is the answer. People have NO IDEA what has been unleashed.
 
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