Fan-less football `a tremendous challenge` for UA athletic department facing financial trouble
(WorldNews Sport)

The Pac-12`s decision to play a seven-game football season starting Nov. 6 means Arizona might now salvage over $20 million in media rights money, but that`s still not nearly enough to dig the athletic department out of significant financial trouble. Arizona athletic director Dave Heeke said last month he projected UA would lose up to $65 million without football and, while he declined Friday to revise that estimate, said there`s “still a very significant shortfall” — even if television partners pay all or most of what the Pac-12`s contract specifies. A big problem is the Pac-12`s decision not to allow fans until at least January, after the football regular season concludes. In past seasons,...