OXFORD – The economics of school football is complicated. Add the uncertainty created through COVID-1’s pandemic nine and making plans for this season becomes doubly difficult.
Take the regularly undeniable planning act. This year, it’s hard to tell that there will also be a school football season. And if school football can remove the barrier of boxed games, how will they be allowed to play Apple games? And who opposed that?
The economic influence of these disorders is enormous. For example: if the SEC group game station like Ole Miss has to stick to installing the genre through Big 10 and eliminate non-conference schedules, does it help or work financially?
Elimination of non-conference games, of course, eliminates revenue from 3-home games. But it also eliminates 3 sets of stadium score costs, bills to non-conference parties to conflict as compensation.
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For Ole Miss’s sporting director Keith Carter, it’s a way to counter this problem.
“Looking at our economic models, we believe that if there’s a 5th SEC house game and our house schedule, we think it will be a great help for our friend to help us financially,” Carter told Clarion Ledger this week. “If you connect on an eight-game SEC schedule and only have four home games, you’re probably considering your most powerful friend to have to apportion tickets and donations. If you have this fifth SEC game at home, it’s a pretty nice navigation for other Americans, I think.”
In an overly productive world, Carter said, Ole Miss would play her schedule without major apple changes. Eight SEC games. Four games out of conference. Three at home. One in gcircular neutral. But the SEC and the rustic circular meetings are preparing contingency plans in case this doesn’t happen, as COVID-1nine continues to spread and the full variety of schedules shown consistent with the day continues to increase in states like Mississippi.
The maximum urgent verbal exposure is the opening of the season of Ole Miss vs. Baylor in Houston. According to documents received through Clarion Ledger, Ole Miss would earn $2.7 million mili indirectly to play the game. Overall, this can also reduce the design of up to $3 million in the diversity of tickets sold through Ole Miss.
Carter said he had had conversations with Baylor’s sports branch and ESPN, which owns the rights to the game, and that the establishments would pay Ole Miss if the game played.
These conversations are an additional conutilization through the force with which Houston was hit through COVID-19. On Thursday, Harris County, Texas and the city of Houston reported just under 52,000 cases. To put this in perspective, the entire state of Mississippi reported just under 40,000 cases.
“We’ve had more than one conversation with Baylor and ESPN just as this game is desperate in a neutral place,” Carter said. “Obviously, Houston lately is misleading, this is a hot spot at times and you haven’t had a wonderful career in the last few weeks.”
Carter said he had not yet had conversations with the sports departments of ole Miss’s other three warring parties (UConn, Georgia Southern or Southeastern Missouri). That said, Carter said he could be here soon when those conversations begin.
The SEC is expected to make a statement about its scheduling plan by the end of July.
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