Our entire monetary system is designed to force this as much as possible (luckily some ignore that and still save anyway).
Jamie Pollard letter on falls sports
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Our entire monetary system is designed to force this as much as possible (luckily some ignore that and still save anyway).
Something other than this image from Iowa.
Positive tests for Iowa.
https://coronavirus.iowa.gov/pages/case-counts
While all this is true for the general populations of those states and for the potential of fans attending games, it does not necessarily apply to the teams playing games. The teams are already isolated from the general population to some extent in a normal year - spending large amounts of their time at team activities, flying or driving to games in private planes or buses. They just need to add extra measures now.
The number of cases in the city where the team is based is not completely relevant. For one, many of the players will have spent the summer home with their families, not in the city or even state where their team is based. For another, if we are going to have a season, the teams (players and staff) have to isolate themselves from the general population. Even in states with relatively low numbers, you have to be careful but even more so for the teams based in areas with hot spots. I mean - the NBA is in Florida. We'll see how that goes, but there's no indication that the virus is running through the NBA like wildfire.
Any responsible leader has to look at the whole picture, as there are real effects on the other side. As have been mentioned, a whole lot of people suddenly out of a job, entire sports programs disappearing, etc.
Life is risky, but somehow we manage to try to live it anyway.
As much as I love ISU and respect what Pollard has done. Starting off with a cursory nod to student athlete's health, and then spending the remaining 90% talking about business issues(from a non-profit that specifically claims to be amateur athletics), doesn't really do much for me. There are at least half a dozen people in ISU athletics making more than the CEO of my company does--even though we do $5b in revenue/$700m in profit last year with 15k+ employees. I truly do not have a ton of sympathy, the budgets of college athletics has gotten way out of hand in the past 20 years--now they've put themselves in a position to be forced to take all of their medicine in one lump sum.
There is no realistic chance of a football season happening this fall--lets admit it and move on. a spring season is our best bet.
There is no realistic chance of a football season happening this fall--lets admit it and move on. a spring season is our best bet.
CycloneErik
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And, like someone showed years ago, the university money was replaced by student fees, so that's really a misnomer when they say there's no money from the University.
Not sure what this addresses to the posters question. Would under 200 cases be the magic number, under 100?
What are schools/colleges/businesses prepared to operate with? 0 is ideal, but also unrealistic since the virus is already here and doing what viruses do.
Agree, but ultimately he’s still balancing safety with revenue generation even if he thinks he isn’t.
This is for Iowa State University as a whole (includes Athletics which is not shown separately).
https://www.auditor.iowa.gov/reports/file/59948/embed
1. Page 14 - you will see ISU showed $97 million in income (profit) for FY 19.
2. page 13 - ISU has $551 million in unrestricted funds meaning they can use this money for any purposes. The other funds listed there are all reserved for the purposes noted and can only be used for those purposes.
3. Page 12 - ISU has $146 million of cash and cash equivalents.
4. Page 12 - ISU has $829 million of investments.
Items 3 & 4 are profits accumulated from prior years to be used on the items noted in #2.
As you see not for profits do have profit that they set aside for future needs.
https://www.auditor.iowa.gov/reports/file/59948/embed
1. Page 14 - you will see ISU showed $97 million in income (profit) for FY 19.
2. page 13 - ISU has $551 million in unrestricted funds meaning they can use this money for any purposes. The other funds listed there are all reserved for the purposes noted and can only be used for those purposes.
3. Page 12 - ISU has $146 million of cash and cash equivalents.
4. Page 12 - ISU has $829 million of investments.
Items 3 & 4 are profits accumulated from prior years to be used on the items noted in #2.
As you see not for profits do have profit that they set aside for future needs.
If not going to games and donating my ticket costs to the University helps keep ISU and athletics playing this year, so be it. Sacrificing a little for the good of all is the way I was raised.
Revenue generation has real, human implications as well (which is his point and mine), but yes.
Pollard says that athletics takes no University money, is that a choice or is it legally-required? Would the University as a whole have some lying around to spare one-time for this?
But how will spring be any different? Same thing was said in the spring about summer/fall. Same thing. I guess will be said in the spring but the issues will always be the same especially if you are going to allow fans at games.
This is an NCAA issue more than Pollard. ISU is pretty much forced to keep up with other schools due to the rat race of college sports. This is the downside of following the group think though.
see post 92.
The State had a push to get the Athletic departments self sustainable, nothing legally required but strongly pushed.
Nebraska has $90 million in a rainy day fund thru their foundation. There are ways to save.
It makes sense, and also deflects some of the nonsense about coaching salaries (that inevitably arise anyway).
