Lost revenues from cancelled games

There's not going to be any college football so this question is irrelevant.

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Lost revenues from cancelled games

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With all of the potential cancellations and schedule reshuffling, we're probably also not talking enough about how the lack of football weekends will affect local businesses that rely on those six or seven weekends a year.

Sure, go around suing your colleagues while everyone is hurting already. Good luck getting teams to agree to play you in these type games in the future.

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There's not going to be any college football so this question is irrelevant.

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Absolutely correct.....

Fall sports are toast

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Agreed. That same good lawyer might also argue that if it's safe to play 10 of your scheduled games (all of which involve someone crossing state lines), then what about force majeure makes the cancelled games special? I do not claim to know the correct answer, what it seems like what is good for one (or ten) should be good for all.

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This. If it's OK to play conference games, pretty hard to argue force majeure as to other games. They may have a sound policy reason for doing so (I disagree), but their policy decision is not FM, which contemplates something truly beyond the control of the parties.

Now, if the state government were to shut down travel or something like that, then you'd have FM. But, merely deciding for yourself that you don't think it's prudent is not FM.

One note: as we've seen historically, the liquidated damage clauses in these contracts are often pretty weak, so the exposure for making the decision to cancel may not be that much.

You ready for A1 to pay
Ga State
Kent state
Tenn Martin
$2MM each and not play?

Freakin joke of OOC

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Sure, go around suing your colleagues while everyone is hurting already. Good luck getting teams to agree to play you in these type games in the future.

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They signed the contract and they backed out of it. If they are worried about schools holding them to a contract they agreed to, then perhaps they shouldn't sign them to begin with.

And maybe they should have thought about that before they canceled the games prematurely while keeping others.

This is the reason why they do that to begin with. These teams could have done other games with similar paydays, or at the very least - a payday.

Be interesting to see what, if anything, happens in this. At first I was thinking the clause would keep them safe. The more I think about it, the more I think they have a case.

I'm not a lawyer, but I do deal with contracts a good bit.

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Agreed. That same good lawyer might also argue that if it's safe to play 10 of your scheduled games (all of which involve someone crossing state lines), then what about force majeure makes the cancelled games special? I do not claim to know the correct answer, what it seems like what is good for one (or ten) should be good for all.
This. If it's OK to play conference games, pretty hard to argue force majeure as to other games. They may have a sound policy reason for doing so (I disagree), but their policy decision is not FM, which contemplates something truly beyond the control of the parties.

Now, if the state government were to shut down travel or something like that, then you'd have FM. But, merely deciding for yourself that you don't think it's prudent is not FM.

One note: as we've seen historically, the liquidated damage clauses in these contracts are often pretty weak, so the exposure for making the decision to cancel may not be that much.

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