I don't disagree with you - I just doubt the conference or the university is considering the surrounding private businesses one bit when determining what they think is safe. In fact, I'd be upset if I thought they were.
As is the new way of major college football. Actual fans in attendance is just icing on top of a very expensive cake. No icing, lots of people will still eat the cake. It's all about the Mouse. We are the United States of Disney.
I doubt that anyone will publicly talk about this. If there is anything heard about limits in the boxes, it will be unofficial and "hearsay". If you have friends or colleagues who view their games in person and in luxury, limits might be "announced", but they won't be adhered to, strictly. Money talks, and the rest of us take the crumbs we can get.
TV ratings will be off the charts esp. in the Big 10 country!
I think you are probably right about that. Ban it on campus, and it will just go off-campus.
Tailgating on the back deck is severely underated. I get to choose who can crash the party as well.
Yep, someone will take advantage of the opportunity and financially benefit from it.
I do not blame the university. If they did not , as someone above said, they'd have 20,000 people in the stadium and 120,000 outside of it.
Unfortunately tickets can be resold to potential visiting fans, but it sure would be nice not to see that awful blue and orange in BDS!
Another question is how many of the 20,000 or so will be STUDENTS? I saw that 40% would be Seniors; 20% Juniors, 15% Sophomores, 15% Freshmen, and 10% Grad students. So are these per cents of the total 20,000 or a lower number with FANS having an opportunity to get seats?
I too opted out as I have 3 season seats but could only request 2 for the mini package I would have chose. Between my wife and son someone wouldn’t get to go and that didn’t sit well with either!
No chance. High school football has started and based on the clips WSFA showed this morning, no social distancing and very few masks. Hospitalizations are actually on the decline in AL but, I expect that to go back up because of schools opening and sports. People really are willing to die for football in this state.
That is why colleges have to limit attendance. The fans cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
I think the reason they are waiting to handle refunds until then is so they can do them all at once. People who are opting out can get a full refund, but everyone who is purchasing tickets will have to wait until they determine who gets which tickets so they can calculate how much is remaining. I'm sure this entire process is quite time consuming as well so it probably has more to do with staff availability than wanting to hold on to everyone's money.
