Well, we now welcome on and say hello to Shane Lyons, the athletic director for West Virginia

University.

He's on Heartland College Sports Weekly.

I'm Pete Mundo.

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Just send me a screenshot of your rating and review to Pete Mundo, M-U-N-N-D-O at Heartlandcolleagledgolts.com. Shane, thank you so much for being here and joining us for a few

minutes. Let's just look back over the past two and a half, three months, Shane. I know it's been a

tough time for you and for athletic departments across the nation, but just how difficult has this been based on the shortage of revenues that college

athletics is seeing right now?

Yeah, it's a great question, Pete.

And I think that we all had to really take a deep dive and look at what we're doing as an, as an athletic department, as a model itself.

You know, it all started back in March when we were at the Big 12 tournament and, you know,

the cancellation of that and then ultimately of the NCAA tournament going into our spring sports.

So, you know, we're looking at the future as well, what it means for

ticket sales, for football, what it means for our donations from our donors, et cetera. And, you know,

it's really changed, you know, how we operate as a department. And, you know, it's not going to be

something that's going to be fixed real quick. It's going to be long-lasting, I believe.

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