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Oregon Preparing For Losses From Modified Football Season

The Univ. of Oregon's football program has more than 30,000 season-ticket holdersgetty images

Univ. of Oregon AD Rob Mullens said the school is "modeling a range" of potential losses from $12M if there is some form of football season all the way up to $80M if no football is played, according to John Canzano of the Portland OREGONIAN. Mullens said, "We expect, even if we can play 12 games which is the goal, there will be some impact because people don’t want to go or the economic realities to what’s happened to unemployment could impact some folks." Regarding which fans would get tickets in a socially distanced Autzen Stadium, Mullens said, “We haven’t finalized that. That will be a very, very difficult decision. We’ve got a team of folks, both from a facility standpoint ... how many tickets would we have available in a socially distant stadium? And then, how would we allocate those?" Mullens noted UO has more than 30,000 season tickets, so if there is a "situation where we have a distant stadium and we can not accommodate all of those it will be a really, really difficult decision" (Portland OREGONIAN, 5/23).

IN CORVALLIS: Oregon State AD Scott Barnes said that he is "modeling various scenarios for Reser Stadium in the fall." One of them includes OSU’s 14,000-16,000 season-ticket holders "spaced out, in a roughly half-filled stadium." Barnes: “That 50 percent number feels like a number if we had to for a couple of games coming out the gate, then managed the social distancing and all the things we do in a 45,000-seat stadium, I think we could do that. We’ve modeled that as an example of where we could go. That right there would be a pretty significant hit in our revenue, just to go 50 percent" (Portland OREGONIAN, 5/24).

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