Canceled athletics may not mean canceled athletics fees

Many colleges charge every student a fee to support athletics, whether they go to a game or not. If the games get canceled? Well, there's no promise the fees will.

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Earlier in the week, I wrote about how COVID-19 could potentially cause changes to significant vendor contracts for athletic departments — from shoe deals to multimedia rights. Even if somehow, some sort of football season happens, revenue from ticket sales is going to completely crater, since no…