re: Link to LA Governor threatening to shutdown college football

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These schools spend an insane amount of money on football and it looks particularly bad for schools that are in dire straits financially like LSU.

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I really know nothing about Louisiana's finances etc but this is not what the governor is saying at all in the snippet you linked.

He says nothing about cutting any funds to the football program (which I would imagine doesn't cost the school any real money and may give back more than it takes).

What he seems to be saying is that lack of funding for the school in general may cause a crisis in which classes are stopped for all students and students will not receive grades.

The threat this would cause to the football program is not that they would lose funding but that the players would not be academically eligible since classes would have been stopped and no grades given.

I do agree that he mentions the potential football effect to deliver a "shock" but says nothing about football funding.