Wide view of Sun Devil stadium before college football match between Michigan State Spartans and Arizona State Sun Devils on September 8, 2018 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. (Photo by Kevin Abele / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Commissioners of major university football conferences held a 30-minute conference call with Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday and stressed that college sports cannot return from shutdown until the campaigns reopen.
Ten Commissioners, along with Athletic Director Notre Dame, form the College Football Playoff Steering Committee.
“We were able to talk about the differences between us and professional sport,” said US Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco. “We talked about how academics and college athletics were inseparable.”
Grand Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said that Pence posed good questions and was “hopeful and optimistic” in the fight against coronavirus. The pandemic closed all major sporting events since mid-March and forced universities to close campuses and move classes online.
The White House stated that it was important to reopen the US economy, although the details of how this would be complicated and would likely include local, state, and federal security guidelines. President Donald Trump has also been involved in professional sports leagues with the suspension of the multi-billion dollar sports industry.
The college football season is scheduled to begin the Labor Day weekend, but many questions remain to be answered for the sport, which is a lifebuoy for many athletic departments.
“(We) said we were concerned and wanted to return to the fact that children attend college and open our colleges and universities,” Bowlsby said. “Until this happens, we won’t have any sport.”
Commissioners would like major university football to start at the same time across the country, which could be difficult depending on how the pandemic disappears.
“We talked a little about whether there would be a national policy, because if the governors have different policies, you will have some problems,” Aresco said. “If California doesn’t allow football and Ohio, it will be a problem for what is obviously a national enterprise.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top US infectious disease expert, told Snapchat that it was unlikely that this summer would be a sporting event with a large number of visitors.
Bowlsby said the next call with the vice president is probably in about a month.
Bill Hancock, College Football Playoff Executive Director, who was also on call, said the semi-finals on January 1 in New Orleans and Pasadena, California, and the January 11 championship game in Miami are still active.
“I was pleased that the vice president understands how important college football is,” Hancock said.
The size of the season is daunting: with over 1,500 regular seasons for 130 schools only in the Bowl Subdivision, the highest NCAA level for football. Each team plays 12 regular games and each conference plays a lucrative master game.
Division I colleges, including some 120, either playing in the second tier of football or not at all, have already been hit financially by the cancellation of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in March. This year they will not be given around $ 375 million.
Playing a football season can be even more expensive. This would jeopardize television contracts that pay hundreds of millions at so-called Power Five conferences. The other five FBS conferences are much less of TV rights, but their schools still rely heavily on football revenues.
The College of Football Playoffs, including major bowl games known as New Year’s Six, pays about $ 674 million a year. Most of this is dedicated to conferences and passed on to member schools.
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