How Will COVID-19 Affect the 2020-21 College Basketball Season?

It’s going to be interesting when the NBA comes back and Sinclair’s Trump Network owns the rights to many, many teams’ broadcasting rights. Talk about a nasty situation.

 

I renewed and would gladly attend games if permitted but am not confident that will happen.


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Agree completely, we switched to YTTV because it was $50 a month and they had the sports channels I wanted to watch. Now it's $65 per month and currently no Pacers games. I will definitely switch if they don't get this resolved.

Does anybody have the Hulu package with live TV? Do they have the Fox sports channels? I already buy the $12 monthly package for the kids. It would be an easy switch if they do.

What about the Big East digital subscription? Can you watch basketball games and stream it from your phone to a smart TV?

 

I still have no idea how this is legal... but it’s like every channel in the world or something.

https://www.wyatv.com/

 

I have Hulu Live. I pay $70/month, but that's with the HBO added. Without it, I think it would be $60. But I have FS1, FS2, FS-Ohio, and FS-Indiana. For the kids, Hulu has Disney, but not Nickelodeon.

 

These negotiations happen regularly. There's a reason it cut off immediately after basketball season, both sides know it is less likely to matter until the new NBA season starts. It's leverage. I don't think either of them want to be without the other come NBA season.

I turned off Spectrum back in August, switched to Hulu for a month and hated it - something about the layout is just "off" - its not natural to me. I went to YTTV and was very happy that 1) it is a separate app and 2) it functioned like the tv guides we are used to 3) it has no limit on recordings - not that I actually use it 4)no limit on devices like Hulu's 2-device limit (or maybe it was 3?). In my experience, Hulu slowed down the entire home's internet as well - maybe just perception, but it seems like we have much fewer issues with YTTV and it rarely de-pixelizes like Hulu did.

The only thing I hate about both is the severe delay on sporting events. When Butler wins the national title in a couple of years, I will know a minute after everyone else.

 

Perfect summation of what makes YTTV great, and why I'm cautiously optimistic like you that there will be too much left on the table to follow through with this when games start back up.

 

And no NFL Network, but otherwise really happy with Hulu aside from the one outage I’ve witnessed, which coincided with the last 12 game minutes of the Butler-Stanford game.


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Those were some all-time great minutes for KB, too!

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Anyone know why Butler delayed the start of practice until next week? Star article said it wasn't Covid related but didnt say why?

It also spurred additional speculation about Bo playing this year given the fact he could play 2 years, but it didn't give any indication as to the chances of that occurring.

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Lavall’s mother passed away. Prayers to the family

I’d guess that is why practice got delayed


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As was said, LaVall's mama died.

To the other point...there is no excuse not to request a waiver now. Especially as thin as we are this year. Bo can play at this level right now. I have no idea why they wouldn't take advantage of the extra year now that it has passed.

 

Here's a link to a Washington Post article on the rule adoption: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/10/14/ncaa-winter-sports-extra-eligibility/

Its description is: "Athletes now have the opportunity to play five seasons within a six-year span rather than the typical four seasons in five years."

I have not found the rule posted on the NCAA website.

 

The pandemic trends are certainly not very encouraging for fans in seats at Hinkle. Not to forecast doom, but it seems TV may be the best bet at this point, if at all.

 

A couple of interesting points from this article:

https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...nors-cover-shortfall-due-pandemic/6001732002/

First, the headline says that Butler is asking donors to "cover the shortfall' due to COVID. I got my email from Butler yesterday and didn't quite read it that way. Yes, they definitely were trying to raise some funds to help cover the losses from COVID, but it seemed to me like a softer sell than is characterized in the article.

Secondly, the article says that the current status of fans is that the current state status would allow Butler to have fans up to 25% of capacity, or about 2,200. Final details on season tickets are still pending while they figure out seating and pricing plans.

 

Has DePaul declared 100% capacity for fear that they would only have 50 people in the arena at 25% capacity?


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Well as of today, Hulu is also dropping FS-Regional channels. It will still have FS1, FS2, etc however.

 

This blows. What do you mean by “etc”?


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CBS Sports Network, Big Ten, all the ESPN’s. Pretty much any other channel Butler could play on except FS-Regional channels.