NolePride
Well-Known Member
I posted about this somewhere on this site, on April 15.
Assume no College Football - who gets screwed the most?
I think Minnesota said this:
The best case scenario was 10% reduction in funds.
The worst case scenario was 70% reduction in funds.
quite a few schools are furloughing coaching staffs or reducing their pay and stopping all bonuses. Boise St and Iowa State come to mind.
About 20 schools in the nation actually have profitable athletic departments, the rest are poorly run business models.
Some of this is actually, "unchartered waters." When coaches are being "furloughed" they must be denied
access to facilities. In the business world, and receiving a paycheck from somebody else, is considered
the business world, there are labor laws to contend with. There is no such thing as a employee "volunteering"
their time. If you are doing your job, you are being paid...period. If you are not being paid...both you and your
employer are violating Labor Laws. The coaches are still receiving their incomes from the boosters and the side
deals, but if the school has laid them off, they can't use school facilities.
Now at the present time, there is no in-person contact allowed between coaches and recruits and probably
current players. A coach could conduct whatever recruiting issues he can handle from his home, but not at the
school, and be safe from he and the school violating Labor Laws. This will get more intriguing as it goes
along.
This is going to eventually strain some conference relationships among member schools. As usual, the SEC
is going to come out way ahead of the game. All their school are in states with GOP Governors and GOP controlled
state legislatures with the exception of Kentucky, but the GOP outnumber the Gov in the State legislature
and that state always votes GOP in national elections, thus all 14 schools will have an equal playing field.
The ACC will have an internal war about when players can report between the Southern schools and those
Northern shit holes, that are members of the conference.
If we really ponder everything that is happening, will or could happen, again, it is going to be very
intriguing and very interesting.
Get the popcorn ready.