Cal public universities to be mostly online in the fall. Exceptions: Nursing and some laboratory science.
Everyone else will have to make this call very soon, and Cal, UCLA, etc just got the ball rolling in a big way.
Link: https://edsource.org/2020/california-state-university-classes-to-continue-mostly-online-in-fall/631381
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Besides losing sports revenue, what will universities do with all of their resort and banquet and hotel facilities they have built to ensnare students?...open up actual resorts and convention facilities?
Hard for my generation to believe, but I think this upcoming generation would just as soon stay home and take courses online, and they won't be paying $75k/yr for that.
Not a big difference in just working from home and saving $400k
For some damn reason, I can't link the article. It dealt with advertising contracts being pulled. If the big corps decide, for whatever reason, they're not sponsoring games, then I'm guessing the season is over before it began...
It wasn't an article as opposed to a quick comment. It really has nothing to do specifically with college football as opposed to advertising in general. Given that nobody knows what is going to happen in the next month, much less 6 months, and the economic shot that many companies are taking, all these folks are doing is hedging their bets and cutting discretionary spending. If college football is played in 2020, there will be plenty of advertising although there certainly will be less money flowing through to the colleges in 2020. Until a vaccine is widely available, business is not going to be back to "normal" and it will take 12-18 months for the economy to remotely get back to "normal." There will be a whole chunk of people who will not got back to the jobs they had.
From the WSJ:
"Good morning. Advertisers including GM, PepsiCo, General Mills, Domino’s Pizza and Sanofi are seeking to walk back spending commitments they made to TV networks.
Under their upfront deals with networks, advertisers’ first real chance since the pandemic struck to cut back future spending commitments began May 1. Companies now have the option to cancel up to 50% of their third-quarter ad spending.
Ad buyers estimate that roughly $1 billion to $1.5 billion in commitments for third-quarter ad spending could be canceled, the Journal’s Suzanne Vranica reports. “The cuts are going to be pretty deep,” said Dave Campanelli, chief investment officer at Horizon Media. "
Given the massive viewership that football engenders. The fact that big advertisers are making it known they're going to cut expenditures if this goes on underscores it's hit the fan. Even in 08, I never came across anything that stated what this article has stated....
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It is a few tiers below Cal (Berkeley) or UCLA.
Kind of like confusing Boston College and ND.
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Generally a tier below. There are some exceptions within certain fields. For example, Cal Poly SLO has one of the top architecture schools in the country, not just California.
Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_University
Outstanding school and discipline, as you pointed out. Both Cal Polys are excellent STEM schools....
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If enough teams in a conference say they ain't having a season, then it doesn't much matter what a couple teams decide. The decision will have been made...
If not, I vote for adding some off-the-wall teams that will be similarly affected by this whole thing--Boise State and Hawaii?