re: The fact that the Big 10 knuckled under is huge politically

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I’m thinking it’s more about universities realizing how much money they will lose if they don’t play.

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I completely agree that it is, but even then, when have you ever seen the left do this even if it saves them money? Literally never lol. They lose and spend incredible amounts of money to retain their #1 resource which is power.

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I’m thinking it’s more about universities realizing how much money they will lose if they don’t play.

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The problem is really that football and basketball $ end up subsidizing the rest of the sports. You can lose out on all the football money and be totally fine...if you don’t have to pay any coaches or allow any other sports to play. What you can’t do is cancel football and think you can still afford men’s soccer, cc/track, and all of the women’s sports.

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I’m thinking it’s more about universities realizing how much money they will lose if they don’t play.

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you're absolutely right.

And consider this- the same principle applies to state and local economies, and a whole lot of businesses. Nothing in this world is built to survive a continued, long shutdown. That's why embargos work.

It wasn't glamorous, but being able to define who would reopen and who would shut down will be a huge factor. There's probably going to be a lot of expected Biden supporters who do the math, and say "we can't do this".