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Big 10 Cancellation Could Put Even More Small Businesses Under
thefederalist ^ | 08/14/2020 | Matt Kittle

Posted on 08/14/2020 6:14:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

MADISON, Wis. — Downtown Madison didn’t need more bad news. State Street, the heart and soul of the capital city — typically bustling with university students and tourists in the stores, bars, and restaurants up and down its pedestrian mall — now struck down by economic hardship, offers just a glimpse of the countless businesses around the country struggling to stay afloat in 2020.

As if the endless suffering of this tumultuous year — COVID-19, lockdowns, shutdowns, riots, and scared customers — weren’t enough, downtown Madison businesses on Tuesday learned the Big 10 is canceling its fall sports season. Now the bars, restaurants, retailers, and service providers so dependent on University of Wisconsin-Madison football fans won’t have the Badgers to bank on.

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KEYWORDS: businesses; cancellation; college; football
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1 posted on 08/14/2020 6:14:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Madison is a big lib city anyway. Screw them.


2 posted on 08/14/2020 6:15:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As designed by all the Shutdown Nazi Governors who are really behind this.


3 posted on 08/14/2020 6:15:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Communists DON’T CARE about a few broken eggs.


4 posted on 08/14/2020 6:18:07 AM PDT by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s the plan. The progs want to make Wisconsin pay for voting for Trump in 2016


5 posted on 08/14/2020 6:22:46 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Conspiracy!


6 posted on 08/14/2020 6:33:54 AM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: alstewartfan
Communists DON’T CARE about a few broken eggs.

Communists DON’T CARE about a few MILLION broken eggs.

7 posted on 08/14/2020 6:35:28 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Face masks are simply mouth diapers for liberals.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My concern is for the thousands of small businesses spreading from Pennsylvania>Michigan>Ohio>Indiana>Illinois>Iowa>Minnesota>Nebraska>as well as Wisconsin. Is Rutgers in the Big10 these days, too ? I think it’s 12.

They —and thousands of ancillary vendors—depend on this activity. Cowardly conference execs will come to regret this. And for no reason.


8 posted on 08/14/2020 6:46:39 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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confirming Rutgers, and U of Maryland in suburban DC.

12 in the BIG10


9 posted on 08/14/2020 6:51:23 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Obviously. As long as those swines attain or retain power. The ovens are always got.


10 posted on 08/14/2020 6:54:30 AM PDT by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Every city around a university is a bunch of left wing douchebags.


11 posted on 08/14/2020 6:55:08 AM PDT by angmo (America invented the Moon, so we could go there.)
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To: chiller

Neither school belongs in the BIG 10.


12 posted on 08/14/2020 6:55:26 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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Two of the top research institutions in the world in two of the largest media markets in country. You realize the B1G doubled their TV revenue by bringing in Maryland and Rutgers?

Of course you don’t, because you’re an idiot.


13 posted on 08/14/2020 7:22:49 AM PDT by angmo (America invented the Moon, so we could go there.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

It isn’t just Wisconsin..

Many Midwest college towns have entire families who work home games in the concessions. Some have dad those contracts for over 20 years, and are part of the landscape to the attendees of the games.


14 posted on 08/14/2020 7:34:41 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: angmo

The BI 10 was formed by location.
Rutgers and Maryland don’t belong.


15 posted on 08/14/2020 7:40:33 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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Two of the top research institutions in the world in two of the largest media markets in country. You realize the B1G doubled their TV revenue by bringing in Maryland and Rutgers?

Neither school has any significant following and both are completely unable to compete with other Big Ten schools on the football field.

16 posted on 08/14/2020 8:18:36 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Schools shutting down sports is a good first step. Now they need to purge the diversity bureaucracy.


17 posted on 08/14/2020 1:22:23 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Schools shutting down sports is a good first step. Now they need to purge the diversity bureaucracy.


18 posted on 08/14/2020 1:22:26 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

It’s always good to hear from an informed FR newcomer


19 posted on 08/14/2020 4:04:10 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: End Times Sentinel

Wrong. Both would have made the NCAA tournament last year and Rutgers has the largest following in the largest media market in the country.

You just have no idea what you are talking about. It was a grand slam money wise for the B1G to admit these two schools. It was about getting the B1G Network on the cable carriers in NY,NJ,DC, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Also, the research money dwarfs football money.


20 posted on 08/14/2020 10:10:24 PM PDT by angmo (America invented the Moon, so we could go there.)
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