Which P5 schools will suffer the most financially if football is cancelled?

Jul 13, 2020
3:49:49pm

NorthwestCoug All-American

I would think Cal, with its huge debt service for its stadium, would be left in financial peril if football doesn’t happen.

Who else is most at risk?

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Which P5 schools will suffer the most financially if football is cancelled?

NorthwestCoug

7/13/20 3:49pm

Cal, Wazzu, Rutgers are my top guesses

Gustav

7/13/20 3:51pm

I’d add Stanford and Oregon State to that list

IceBlueCoug

7/13/20 3:54pm

Maryland

Everyman

7/13/20 4:04pm

TCU already had empty stadiums, no impact...ZING!

Cougarclaw

7/13/20 3:53pm

Doesn't Colorado have a big financial mess similar to Cal? Thought I heard that.

threezeroeight

7/13/20 4:01pm

Hopefully

NorthwestCoug

7/13/20 4:02pm

supposed to be on track by 2021, maybe covid hurts that

Y man am I

7/13/20 4:26pm

In 2018-19, the athletic department had a $4M loss on revenues of $94M.

Everyman

7/13/20 4:30pm

Interesting article related to that topic

ManicBlue

7/13/20 4:09pm

Someone on twitter put together the debt by each school. 10/12 P12 are in debt

Y man am I

7/13/20 4:24pm

utah might break even thanks to some of the highest P5 student fees assessed

ManicBlue

7/13/20 4:42pm

Do they still charge Student Fees if classes are all online?

groy

7/13/20 4:47pm

Doubt they'll be able to charge the athletics fee since that was supposed to

ManicBlue

7/13/20 4:51pm

They would all be at huge risk. Very few have a 'rainy day' fund to cover their

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