re: The big ten - sitting out the season

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What is the long-term fallout from losing a year of football?? F

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The financial hit will be catastrophic. Ohio State, for example, stands to lose $130+ million. That would kill a lot of programs.

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The PAC, the others to fold up, barely plays football as it is. They don't draw at the gate and they don't draw TV ratings. No one is going to miss them much. It would not surprise me to see PAC program/programs revamp their college athletics rather drastically.

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I’ve been visiting the forums of the strongest teams in the Big X and the PAC, Ohio State and Oregon, and there is a strong difference in the attitudes toward the football shutdown. OSU fans are furious and some seem ready to bolt from the Big X. Oregon fans accept it and actually seem to think that shutting down was the right thing to do.