College Sports Are In Serious Jeopardy
The Lead
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🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Football and men's basketball are the main financial drivers of college sports. With March Madness having been canceled, many athletic departments are now more dependent than ever on a successful college football season. But will there be one? The Athletic’s Nicole Auerbach joins us to talk about how colleges are (and are not) preparing for football season, why college sports are more financially vulnerable than pro sports, and how the coronavirus could change everything we know about the college sports landscape.
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| 0:00.0 | When it comes to the future of college sports, there are a lot of questions. |
| 0:11.5 | Like, will there be a college football season this fall? |
| 0:15.2 | I'll be shocked if we have NFL football this fall, if we have college football, be so |
| 0:21.0 | surprised if that happens. |
| 0:23.1 | I got one plan and that is to get the Tigers ready to play, come September. |
| 0:28.8 | I don't have any doubt that's going to be the case. |
| 0:31.3 | I have zero doubt. |
| 0:32.9 | I mean, this is America, man. |
| 0:34.6 | Today, the Athletics McCool Hourback joins us to talk about how schools are and aren't |
| 0:39.5 | preparing for football season. |
| 0:41.5 | Why college sports are especially vulnerable financially and how the coronavirus could change |
| 0:47.0 | everything we know about the college sports landscape. |
| 0:50.1 | You're going to see a ton of sports get cut, a ton of scholarships, opportunities get |
| 0:56.4 | taken away. |
| 0:57.4 | And it would just fundamentally reshape the way that college sports looks. |
| 1:05.4 | From Wondry and the Athletic, I'm Andres Kelto. |
| 1:07.8 | And I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:08.9 | It's Wednesday, April 8th and this is the lead. |
| 1:12.9 | It felt like something great was going to happen. |
| 1:19.9 | There was just something about the emotion. |
| 1:22.9 | You got to go faster, faster. |
| 1:23.9 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
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