Don't get me wrong. I desperately want football this fall. Hopefully you guys can convince me otherwise on the money, but Football (and the athletic department as a whole) is incredibly expensive. They need these donations and season tickets sales.
Feel free to provide the numbers if you think I'm wrong, but based on various statements, including the one they made when they cut their athletic budget, I don't think they could work this without the season ticket sales and fans in the stands. Maybe they could squeak in football, but would they have to dump other sports to stay afloat since football supports everything else except basketball?
They basically said they thought they would be okay with as little as 50 percent in the stands, maybe a bit lower, which leads me to believe that if we can't put at least a decent number of fans in Neyland, we may have to delay the season.
On the bright side, Oxford and various pharmaceutical companies seem absolutely positive about a vaccine being imminent and available around the end of the year.
Feel free to provide the numbers if you think I'm wrong, but based on various statements, including the one they made when they cut their athletic budget, I don't think they could work this without the season ticket sales and fans in the stands. Maybe they could squeak in football, but would they have to dump other sports to stay afloat since football supports everything else except basketball?
They basically said they thought they would be okay with as little as 50 percent in the stands, maybe a bit lower, which leads me to believe that if we can't put at least a decent number of fans in Neyland, we may have to delay the season.
On the bright side, Oxford and various pharmaceutical companies seem absolutely positive about a vaccine being imminent and available around the end of the year.
