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ND keen for an empty-stadium home game vs full-stadium ‘21 ? by fortune_smith

Presumably there’s either no or negligible game-day revenue for a 2020 home game vs Navy. What do you think game day revenue is for a normal home game vs Navy? $6 mil? $8 mil? $10 mil? How many tickets do we actually sell to that game? 60k? 65k? Even more (I don’t know the ticketing arrangement for students, faculty and staff)? What’s the average price for a sold ticket? $100? $125? And then there’s parking, concessions, swag and so on.

I can’t imagine ND would be keen to play Navy at home this year in lieu of doing so next year.

As it is, Mike Brey is talking about potentially having to bus to Kentucky for a basketball game due to athletic budget pressures.

If pressures are impacting relatively nominal transportation costs like getting a small team to a neighboring state, then I can’t imagine the University will willingly relinquish home football games that may be worth close to $10 million in revenue, perhaps even more.