Brother Bear
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Interesting story and what some in the Pac12 are looking at...
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/23/pac-12-football-schools-should-think-in-terms-of-rebuilding-their-business-in-post-covid19-world/
Because whenever college football opens its gates to the public — whether it’s the first weekend of Sept. 2020 or Sept. 2021 — the experience will be entirely different than it has been for the past 100 years.
Attendance has been on the decline for years, and now comes a global pandemic.
For the schools and the conferences, Dolich said, it won’t be enough to pick up where they left off.
It’s one thing to send kids back to school whenever the crisis ends.
It’s another to willingly spend the day in close quarters with tens of thousands of strangers.
“They need to think strategically and proactively to the time when they’re going to recover, to those days of the green light,” Dolich said.
“They have to think in terms of rebuilding their business.”
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/23/pac-12-football-schools-should-think-in-terms-of-rebuilding-their-business-in-post-covid19-world/
Because whenever college football opens its gates to the public — whether it’s the first weekend of Sept. 2020 or Sept. 2021 — the experience will be entirely different than it has been for the past 100 years.
Attendance has been on the decline for years, and now comes a global pandemic.
For the schools and the conferences, Dolich said, it won’t be enough to pick up where they left off.
It’s one thing to send kids back to school whenever the crisis ends.
It’s another to willingly spend the day in close quarters with tens of thousands of strangers.
“They need to think strategically and proactively to the time when they’re going to recover, to those days of the green light,” Dolich said.
“They have to think in terms of rebuilding their business.”