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Topic: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB

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Entropy

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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2020, 11:26:38 AM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on July 08, 2020, 11:16:01 AM
I found the last three words of your post very interesting. 

I think that your reason for dropping season tickets isn't substantially different from mine, @847badgerfan 's, or @utee94 's.  I'm not even sure how much the schools care.  Ticket and donation revenue is obviously important but most of the money comes from TV anyway.  That is where your statement that you now watch UNL's games "when you can" is potentially very interesting and potentially devastating to CFB revenues. 

I don't know about Badge and Utee but even after dropping season tickets, my school's games are still "appointment viewing".  If Ohio State is playing and I'm not watching it is almost always because a very close relative was born, hospitalized, died, or got married (inconsiderately on  CFB Saturday).  Otherwise, I'm watching the game. 

Maybe you mean the same thing by your statement but I didn't read it that way.  I read it as "I like to watch but if the lawn needs mowed . . ."  For you to drop from a season ticket holder attending all the home games and presumably watching all of the road games on TV to something more like a "casual" fan is a MUCH bigger step. 

I'd say I went from a rabid CF fan to casual.  No question.  Life used to evolve around Saturday football and UNL games.  Now games evolve around life.  Most of that is having kids and making them a priority.  Part of it is being slightly bitter...  I can admit it.

 
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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2020, 01:12:13 PM »
We've mused a lot about the lingering impact of the work from home aspect of this, and I think most of us think it will be significant and lasting.

The same could be true for sports.
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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2020, 01:29:42 PM »
Yeah, I have to watch every Florida game, even from across the country.  Even if it's not live, it's actually great to start it about 45 min late and catch up to the live action near the end of the game.

This year could just be a hiccup, I don't know.  Can you imagine stadiums knocking seats out, leaving only spaced out, fixed seating for 2021?  A new normal?  

Anyway, about going to games - if I still lived in Gainesville, I'd still go when tickets came my way, but it's 100% worth it for a big opponent.  I assume there are only a handful of places like it, but the Swamp vs a good Tennessee, LSU, or good FSU is a special place.  
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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #17 on: July 08, 2020, 01:52:24 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on July 08, 2020, 10:19:33 AM
My guess is that the long-term impact of COVID on CFB will be to dramatically accelerate the pre-existing issue that it was already becoming increasingly difficult for teams to sell tickets. 

When I was a kid, Ohio State tickets were like GOLD.  If somebody offered you tickets to an Ohio State game, you took them without hesitating because they were near-impossible to get.  Going to the 'Shoe was special even if the opponent was Directional U. 
Was thinking the same.  We had UM season tickets, but I remember friends, who would score one offs from like someone their dad worked with for a terrible game, and it was like they won the lottery.  Granted I don't think UM started playing non-BCS schools until the late 90s, and at first it was like Miami(Ohio) and Memphis.  I remember when they first played my dad's alma mater (EMU), he started to question what he was paying for.

Hell I remember ditching the game in the video below at halftime, being ill dressed for it, only to find out my best friend stayed til the bitter end, because it was the only game he went to that year.  Now I know my dad struggles to find someone who wants his for free unless it's a big time game.


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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #18 on: July 08, 2020, 02:20:31 PM »
Quote from: ELA on July 08, 2020, 01:52:24 PM
Was thinking the same.  We had UM season tickets, but I remember friends, who would score one offs from like someone their dad worked with for a terrible game, and it was like they won the lottery.  Granted I don't think UM started playing non-BCS schools until the late 90s, and at first it was like Miami(Ohio) and Memphis.  I remember when they first played my dad's alma mater (EMU), he started to question what he was paying for.

Hell I remember ditching the game in the video below at halftime, being ill dressed for it, only to find out my best friend stayed til the bitter end, because it was the only game he went to that year.  Now I know my dad struggles to find someone who wants his for free unless it's a big time game.


https://youtu.be/j460bLNZ6To
Exactly the same.  Back in the early 1990's (before I went to tOSU) I got to go to Ohio State vs Louisville and I thought I was the luckiest guy alive even though Louisville was terrible and tOSU was merely pedestrian.  

The last few years that we had our season tickets if we couldn't make it to a crap game we had the same experience as your dad.  We literally had trouble finding people to use them even when we were giving away tickets.  

When we bought them I felt somewhat obligated to use them but now I just don't care.  I go to a game or two every year but I pick the games and pay the price.  I don't pay for crap games that I don't care to see anyway.  
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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #19 on: July 08, 2020, 02:24:20 PM »
How many attendees are present more as a social event than a football game, including students?

I know some folks go and tailgate and watch the games on TV, they don't bother going to the stadium.

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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #20 on: July 08, 2020, 06:34:06 PM »
The long term effects on football will be to slow the arms race in

  • Building structures and indoor practice facilities;
  • Building stadium improvements;
  • Lowering coaches salaries.

The larger effect is now being felt in other sports. Stanford just cut 11 nonrevenue sports. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/us/stanford-varsity-spt-trnd/index.html

"school leaders said the Covid-19 impact could equal a $70 million shortfall over the next three years if changes aren't made . . ."



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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #21 on: July 08, 2020, 07:52:42 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on July 08, 2020, 02:20:31 PM
Exactly the same.  Back in the early 1990's (before I went to tOSU) I got to go to Ohio State vs Louisville and I thought I was the luckiest guy alive even though Louisville was terrible and tOSU was merely pedestrian. 

The last few years that we had our season tickets if we couldn't make it to a crap game we had the same experience as your dad.  We literally had trouble finding people to use them even when we were giving away tickets. 

When we bought them I felt somewhat obligated to use them but now I just don't care.  I go to a game or two every year but I pick the games and pay the price.  I don't pay for crap games that I don't care to see anyway. 
Hmmm, in college, I went to most every game, give or take other responsibilities or the odd hangover. Wasn't much of a social butterfly, so I didn't have a great pregame crew. 

I have a job that makes weekends dicy schedule-wise, but I can't imagine getting too deep into it. I guess if I lived in my hometown and could walk to the stadium, maybe. Or maybe the act of standing for four hours has lost its luster. 
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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #22 on: July 09, 2020, 06:18:58 AM »
As I said in the other thread/ as long as positive tests are the barometer we could be looking at next season being cancelled too.  
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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #23 on: July 09, 2020, 04:28:37 PM »
counting positive tests is asinine
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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #24 on: July 10, 2020, 06:52:15 AM »
I guess we can see the impact on college athletics in broader terms than just CFB already.

More to come.  The knives are out, and Title IX is going to be stretched.
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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #25 on: July 10, 2020, 08:32:36 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 10, 2020, 06:52:15 AM
I guess we can see the impact on college athletics in broader terms than just CFB already.

More to come.  The knives are out, and Title IX is going to be stretched.
Title IX is also being stretched by the concept of gender fluidity.   
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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #26 on: July 10, 2020, 09:05:48 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 08, 2020, 02:24:20 PM
How many attendees are present more as a social event than a football game, including students?

I know some folks go and tailgate and watch the games on TV, they don't bother going to the stadium.


This was me at the end, to be honest. I'd sell my tickets for what I could get, and watch it in the parking lot, where the grills, porta-john and drinks were.
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Re: Long-term impact of COVID on CFB
« Reply #27 on: July 10, 2020, 09:07:26 AM »
I haven't been to Madison since 2016. I might never go back. Not sure. I can get BTN in Florida, or stream.
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