[Farm93]

Exactly what is the benefit of  a 6 game season with no one the stadiums?

It brings revenue to the athletic department.  But it also makes clear that student-athlete well-being is a fiction.

BC

It also prevents the mass exodus of players to other conferences in football and other sports.   That was a threat that many schools were dealing with in September when the SEC and ACC were holding all kinds of sports with few problems.  

I think most of us imagined November and December would look like this for the CA-based schools, but it was hard for Pac-12 officials to hold the line by cautioning that a 2nd/3rd wave, complete with challenging contact tracing policies, was inevitable.

[Farm93]

Exactly what is the benefit of  a 6 game season with no one the stadiums?

It brings revenue to the athletic department.  But it also makes clear that student-athlete well-being is a fiction.

BC

It also prevents the mass exodus of players to other conferences in football and other sports.   That was a threat that many schools were dealing with in September when the SEC and ACC were holding all kinds of sports with few problems.  

I think most of us imagined November and December would look like this for the CA-based schools, but it was hard for Pac-12 officials to hold the line by cautioning that a 2nd/3rd wave, complete with challenging contact tracing policies, was inevitable.