$36,070. That's how much the average FBS College Football player will cost a school in tuition.
85. That's the amount of scholarships on the table each year for each college Football team each year.
$3.1 million. That's the amount that football players cost a school per year in tuition only.
In a plague like this there are going to be 'ancillary' victims. So rattled were they by the prospect of COVID-19 doing damage to college football players, the B1G conference cancelled their fall season.
Players spat bullets, shook heads and didn't understand. The fanbases didn't understand either.
This winter, there will be no Game. There will be no bitter battles for weird jugs, trophies and helmets. We won't be able to jump around, White Out, wave at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital, a Rose Bowl, make fun of Rutgers or any of the other things that we love about Big Ten Football.
Silence in The Fall.
But don't for a second think that the Presidents only discussed it amongst themselves, saw some medical advice and thought to stash away the season.
But don't think for a second that the Presidents only discussed it amongst themselves and the head coaches and came up with the idea.
$100 million. That's the cost that Penn State has paid out to victims of Jerry Sandusky so far.
$500 million. That's the amount that Michigan State has paid out to victims of Larry Nasser, the former Michigan State doctor who molested hundreds of students.
The B1G has been a home for controversy over recent years.
In addition to Sandusky and Nasser, Michigan has been accused of covering up decades of abuse by former physician Robert Anderson, who is dead and looking up at us as we speak. Then there was Ohio State and former head coach Urban Meyer and accusation of domestic abuse by then-assistant football coach Courtney Smith. And there's also the racist defensive coordinator at Iowa who had to be fired.
So imagine if a B1G college football player gets myocarditis - a rare condition that leads to heart damage and even cardiac arrest. That happened to Indiana offensive linesman Brady Feeney who was already struggling with it after contracting COVID-19 earlier this year.
And that player dies.
If you don't think that the school will be hit by a Monster Lawsuit, think again. If you don't think that the conference would be hit by a monster lawsuit, think again. If you don't think that the NCAA would be hit by a monster lawsuit, think again.
And it won't just be the legal damage. The reputational damage ("Your school's don't care for you"), the press attacks ("Oh dear. Another chapter for [add school here] and B1G"), amongst other things.
The B1G and their presidents asked themselves: "Is playing football during COVID-19 worth the risk?"
And when you think about the dollar bills, probably not.
