Postponing Football Could Impact All Other Sports At CU Boulder

From CBS Denver:

By Jeff Todd

August 10, 2020

BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) – Administrators and conference officials are discussing what to do with the upcoming college football season. Concerns around student safety are clashing with the multi-million dollar decision to cancel or postpone the season.

“When you look at finances in college athletics and especially at the University of Colorado, football is the money making sport,” said Brian Howell who covers CU Athletics for the Boulder Daily Camera and BuffZone.com. “All the other sports depend on that football money in order to operate. None of them make money, in fact they all lose quite a bit of money and they need that football money.”

Howell says last year’s revenue for CU football was $43.4 million dollars. A delay or cancellation for the football season is expected from the Pac-12 on Tuesday. The move is likely to follow the Big 10 conference.

Read more at CBS Denver