“They can’t drink in the stadium, so they wait until the last second to leave for games,” he said. “It hurts. It will impact for sure.”

Goodnight said his business sees three to four times the volume of customers on a CWS day compared to a normal summer day.

He said it’s the whole reason they are there. “Those two weeks of the year we are too small of a place. The other 50 weeks of the year we are too big. The CWS is great and by far the biggest money-maker.”

The NCAA’s decisions also concern Cindy Schnittgrund, owner of the Session Room two blocks west of the stadium.

“Absolutely, any time there is another venue open that sells the same thing you do, there is the competition,” she said.

Her establishment had only been open 3½ weeks before last year’s CWS, but Schnittgrund said business was fantastic the first weekend.

“I would think people still like the atmosphere of being out in bars and restaurants,” she said.

The NCAA says its staff will work with law enforcement in Omaha and Oklahoma City to monitor alcohol-related incidents at both venues in order to compare this year’s statistics with prior years.