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(07-09-2020 03:48 PM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(07-09-2020 03:06 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  

(07-09-2020 02:57 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(07-09-2020 02:44 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Well there goes the trip to Nebraska.

I wonder if the home game just becomes a game at Nebraska with a nice Red and White Check stapled to it.

Perhaps. UC was getting $400k for this trip and was due to pay Nebraska the same in 2025 for the game here.

I could see this turning into one off buy game. No way Nebraska is playing a road game here for not much $$ without a return game.

BTW, the 400k would have been UC’s biggest single payday for a game this year. Doesn’t sound like much but that hurts the budget a bit.

All of this hurts the budget a great deal. Bumping a game another year out sounds simple enough, but UC has pre-conference commitments scheduled years in advance. If UC gets Nebraska here at all in 2021 as planned, the trip to Lincoln sometime 2022 or after, causes lots of other puzzle pieces to move (I believe a home and home with IU was scheduled to begin immediately after the Nebraska series).

If pre-conference is wiped out universally, UC has also lost two home dates--or about a third of the home schedule maybe? It's not just ticket revenue; it's parking, beer sales, merchandise, and concessions. If the entire season gets cancelled, imagine trying to balance athletic budgets for all FBS schools? And I think we're on the precipice of losing the whole college football season now.

Nebraska has open dates in 2024,2027,2029 and all years thereafter. UC also has 2024,2027 and 2029 open. So one of those could solve the issue.