
Hunter Sharpless - FloSports
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This is the vital question we need to ask ourselves: If the college football season is canceled, what happens to college athletics?
Fans of wrestling, track, softball, or one of the "other" non-revenue sports may not think this matters much.
But it does matter -- a lot.
College athletics is changing dramatically because of the coronavirus pandemic. Schools across the United States and all divisions of the NCAA are facing huge financial losses and institutional challenges, and the fallout is just beginning.
Right now, there are more questions than answers--and that's OK.
After all, global pandemics don't happen very often! The question about football, though, is ridiculously important for the livelihood of collegiate athletics.
I'm asking this question specifically with smaller (in terms of money) sports who largely are non-revenue drivers on college campuses: wrestling, track, softball, gymnastics, volleyball, etc. These sports don't generate the high-reven...