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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3498465, member: 9403"] In many respects, it would have been robbing Peter to pay Paul, because the incoming frosh and the rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors all made decisions predicated on the senior class departing. Really, really sucks, but I couldn't see a feasible alternative. That said, I'm still not exactly sure how that will work for spring athletes, since the same rob-Peter-pay-Paul dynamic will emerge there, too. And unlike football and basketball, most spring sports are already partial scholly sports like golf and tennis, where the teams are comprised in part of starter-level athletes who cannot qualify for full scholarships. That crunch would only get worse with five classes' worth of athletes to cover. And if the NCAA partially waives scholarship restrictions, the richer schools (like Stanford) can afford to get richer and retain them, while I would imagine a lot of state schools will be unable to cover them easily. BTW: this is a conversation for down the road, but look for major cuts to staff, travel, recruiting, etc. in the coming seasons. The NCAA cut its disbursements to schools in half due to March Madness being cancelled, and all the conferences and their networks will be hemorrhaging cash for the foreseeable future. University endowments are down big. Donors are pulling back. State budgets are going to be decimated. This is not anyone's topline concern today, but funding for college sports will be a major issue sooner than we think. I suspect just as the pandemic will be the death knell for much of major retail, there is going to be a retrenchment with a lot of low-performing non-revenue D1 sports folding because schools will no longer be able to pay for them. Even some top programs like Cal have been living on the edge for several of their (well performing) sports programs for the past decade. [/QUOTE]

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