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[QUOTE="0.2 YNdeeR, post: 3840325, member: 8125"]
I wasn't making "excuses" for anyone, or linking SU's financial losses to Dino's media blackout. That's your surmise. As you can see from the board, we're all hoping for more access and information. But the fact remains that, with gross revenues exceeding $100M (mostly from FB and BB ticket revenue), losing an entire season of FB and basketball attendance, with many of the same fixed costs ($80+M?) and only a fraction of STH's "donating" their ticket costs (I was one of them), easily put them in the red by multi-millions and probably > ten million.

The covid tests are also not cheap - remember that SU not only did thousands of individual (probably rapid saliva) surveillance tests, they were also conducting constant pool testing as well. The latter included non-athletes but the costs add up quickly. The lab SU built to handle all its testing cost $1 million alone.
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