Honestly, i don't know why I'm still responding

And I don't know if you are having this conversation in good faith or just bored on a Friday and enjoy the back and forth on a board that's been mostly dead for at least a month now.

I thought I made it clear, but apparently I didn't. I'm purposely not taking into consideration the ramifications of no football on available scholarships. But regardless, my point is still that I don't consider it fair to count an abandoned season against a player's eligibility. And it certainly isn't fair relative to doing it just because you are trying to limit the competition for those available scholarships. But, for reasons I don't really understand yet, you seem to think it is 1) worth the players' risking illness to potentially avoid a long-simmering collegiate sports catastrophe or 2) okay to tell current athletes to pound sand on losing a year of eligibility as opposed to letting "market dynamics" dictate the awarding of scholarships based on merit. I'll just have to disagree on both accounts because I don't think any college athlete should take risk "for the greater good", and I don't think they should be unnecessarily punished because the alternative is some "hard choices" about telling an end of the bench player that things have changed and there isn't a scholarship available for them.

And, honestly, I don't want to come across as "post-hunting", but you are definitely spouting nonsense throughout the board today. You want to argue definitive repercussions if no games but shut down every comment that there definitely won't be games/fans this year with a "let's wait and see" approach. You're talking about TV ratings and the contract as if they are set in stone. You nor I have any certainty as to the NBC contract or any other TV contract, but it is possible that there is clawback/earnout language in at least some of the contracts for diminished games and poor ratings. Lastly, is reference to sponsorship within the stadium. I know it's fun to hate on ND here about all things stadium-related, but I don't recall any advertising being blasted over the jumbotron or anywhere else within the stadium for that matter which is exactly what was promised. Perhaps you were referring to other universities.