The difference now, is the frequent testing with more knowledge of the virus. Large conferences with basketball Blue Bloods will do everything they can to play, without fans if need be. These athletic programs NEED the TV money to survive. They will attempt to play a season, just like football has.
It's not a huge moneymaker, that's why you were right to forget. Ivy League hockey is a very regionalized sport. They get very little if any national TV revenue. That's where the big money is.
It's not a HUGE financial hit for the Ivy League to cancel all sports like it is most big time college athletic programs. That includes hockey.
Oh you couldn't be more wrong. Tons of programs everywhere are being cut, permanently. Coaches are taking huge pay cuts. Etc.
If some of these schools didn't get football going when they did, they were in BIG trouble. Some of these schools have HUGE athletic budgets. And a monster part of financing that is football. Football TV and gate revenue is the lifeblood to many D1 athletic programs.
Yale has been trying to raise money for months just to pay the salaries. No one realizes how much Northeastern Universities rely of foreign students. They were the first to sell out to China and India because they pay 3 times what a US kid pays. Right now kids in CT can go to Maine for half what an in state tuition at Uconn is because all the International students. Its brutal. Take away Sports $$$$$ and its dangerous ground. I mean everyone knows why they are playing College Football right now. Im just glad all the College athletes are recovering. We know it will only take 1 death to close it all down.
They're still not playing football, everyone else is
Those schools with billions of dollars in their endowment funds play by different rules in the financial arena
They don't need the money
How could a temporary loss of athletic revenues put a school like Yale with a $31 billion endowment fund on life support? The insignificant deficit created by this pandemic should easily covered by a relatively minor amount allocated for this emergency.
https://news.yale.edu/2020/09/24/investment-return-68-brings-yale-endowment-value-312-billion
Well Willie if they dont play Hockey then I lose a paycheck. People are greatly affected by these decisions. If Hockey East and ECAC follow the same route then its detrimental to a lot of people including the students. Cornell will not be playing who is the #1 team in the Country. Harvard is Top 5 and Yale is top 10. You know how many drafted players play for these teams that are now screwed? This is a HUGE Hockey conference. I was told yesterday that I will not be allowed in any Hockey East arena to start the season as a Scout/Media and they will look at it again after Jan 1st. That is just craziness.
