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Sun Times article on how the conference’s next TV deal may bring it mas mucho dinero.

The operative part:

“The Big Ten’s contracts with Fox/BTN, ESPN/ABC and CBS expire after the 2022-23 season…Industry insiders think the conference could bring at least close to the $1 billion annual average predicted in reports by Sports Business Journal and Front Office Sports. The conference is earning $440 million annually from its current deals, which began in 2017.
 
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Rebel II said:
That would be $71+ million per each of the 14 B1G teams. Pretty impressive.
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Conference itself gets a share (or a portion of a share; I can’t remember which), do the per-school amount would be slightly less. But still quite substantial!
 
Hungry Jack said:
Sun Times article on how the conference’s next TV deal may bring it mas mucho dinero.

The operative part:

“The Big Ten’s contracts with Fox/BTN, ESPN/ABC and CBS expire after the 2022-23 season…Industry insiders think the conference could bring at least close to the $1 billion annual average predicted in reports by Sports Business Journal and Front Office Sports. The conference is earning $440 million annually from its current deals, which began in
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HJ,

A correction to your Spanish. It should read, “Mucho más dinero.”
 
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After reading that I have no interest in thinking about the idea - as some have proposed - of joining/forming an academic sports conference with schools like Duke, Rice, Stanford or as others have proposed - joining the Ivy League. I never had such interest to begin with, but now a "one in a billion" chance turns into "completely zero".

This kind of thinking is also probably true for Duke, Stanford, etc. They get more money from their conferences, ACC, Pac 10, than from any new one.

The one bit of very good news is that this amount of money must be enticing to even the most sports skeptical members (if there are any) on the Northwestern Board. With this kind of money coming in, athletics, one has to presume, will remain supported and safe at NU despite recent changes in all kinds of recruiting and scholarship rules.

Go Cats!
 
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Sweet cupcakin Jesus.

Next person who donates directly to NU football instead of an NIL collective gets kicked in the digital teeth.
 
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Eurocat said:
After reading that I have no interest in thinking about the idea - as some have proposed - of joining/forming an academic sports conference with schools like Duke, Rice, Stanford or as others have proposed - joining the Ivy League. I never had such interest to begin with, but now a "one in a billion" chance turns into "completely zero".

This kind of thinking is also probably true for Duke, Stanford, etc. They get more money from their conferences, ACC, Pac 10, than from any new one.

The one bit of very good news is that this amount of money must be enticing to even the most sports skeptical members (if there are any) on the Northwestern Board. With this kind of money coming in, athletics, one has to presume, will remain supported and safe at NU despite recent changes in all kinds of recruiting and scholarship rules.

Go Cats!
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While I am one of the proponents of forming an academic sports conference, sadly, I suspect you’re on the money here. The B1G revenue sports income is simply too significant to jettison. So, yes, the chances that NU goes the way of the Ivy League are small.
But, we’re back to same old recursive arguments….I.e. this will force NU into a Hobson’s choice between compromising on academic requirements ( never compromise on character requirements ) or reverting to a team that seldom wins the West. As has been mooted in previous posts, the—already small—pool of talent that is good enough to compete for B1G championships and will also qualify for NU’s academic and character requirements is shrinking. The decline in academic competencies in the US educational system is well documented. Can Fitz and his staff regularly win recruiting battles for this diminishing remnant? Time will tell, but this will be a hard row to hoe. Assembling a great coaching staff and an adequate NIL war chest are prerequisites.
 
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As has been mooted in previous posts, the—already small—pool of talent that is good enough to compete for B1G championships and will also qualify for NU’s academic and character requirements is shrinking. The decline in academic competencies in the US educational system is well documented.
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I think that is overstated greatly.

If you go to a social event where 40 and 50 something adults are gathering two things will be talked about non stop.

* "Oh my gawd have you heard what they are doing in the schools now? The schools stink nowadays."

Also on the conversation menu will be the exact opposite complaint;

* "Oh my gawd my sister's kid has a 4.0 and she got rejected at all her favorite schools, schools are just becoming impossible to get into these days, there is soooo much competition"

Both of these simply can't be true.

So I don't think the problem is all that great.

Plus we can now get around the grades issue. Since athletes often get breaks in grading, just don't ask for SAT or ACT scores for athletes. Say that "For athletes, their sport is their SAT/ACT score" and we will be able to get anyone in. Then you need good tutors while they are here. Anyone who fails out can be said to have "applied for the transfer portal" and it won't hit our grade rates either if I understand the new rules correctly. And of course they can be replaced too so that we don't lose a roster spot. A lot of grad rates for a lot of schools will be going up with this "trick" so it will be tougher for us to sell our 95 percent graduation rate when half the schools will have a 95 percent graduation rate. With kids now getting "paid" a lot of kids will be told to move on surreptitiously. Mr Texas Longhorn booster isn't going to pay big bucks for a red shirt junior who is fourth string and only sees the field on punt returns or something like that.

If anyone thinks I am being cynical, I say I think the coaches have thought of all of these things months ago (both here and at all other schools) and are going to use these methods. I'm just bringing this to the boards attention and putting it all up for discussion. This is a time of great change and we can't stick our heads in the sand.

GO CATS!
 
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Eurocat said:
I think that is overstated greatly.

If you go to a social event where 40 and 50 something adults are gathering two things will be talked about non stop.

* "Oh my gawd have you heard what they are doing in the schools now? The schools stink nowadays."

Also on the conversation menu will be the exact opposite complaint;

* "Oh my gawd my sister's kid has a 4.0 and she got rejected at all her favorite schools, schools are just becoming impossible to get into these days, there is soooo much competition"

Both of these simply can't be true.

So I don't think the problem is all that great.

Plus we can now get around the grades issue. Since athletes often get breaks in grading, just don't ask for SAT or ACT scores for athletes. Say that "For athletes, their sport is their SAT/ACT score" and we will be able to get anyone in. Then you need good tutors while they are here. Anyone who fails out can be said to have "applied for the transfer portal" and it won't hit our grade rates either if I understand the new rules correctly. And of course they can be replaced too so that we don't lose a roster spot. A lot of grad rates for a lot of schools will be going up with this "trick" so it will be tougher for us to sell our 95 percent graduation rate when half the schools will have a 95 percent graduation rate. With kids now getting "paid" a lot of kids will be told to move on surreptitiously. Mr Texas Longhorn booster isn't going to pay big bucks for a red shirt junior who is fourth string and only sees the field on punt returns or something like that.

If anyone thinks I am being cynical, I say I think the coaches have thought of all of these things months ago (both here and at all other schools) and are going to use these methods. I'm just bringing this to the boards attention and putting it all up for discussion. This is a time of great change and we can't stick our heads in the sand
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Well, I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. If you want to spend the time, a quick search of Google will surface articles on the decline of the US Educational system ( you can choose from the NYT or the National Review, whichever worldview works best for you ) and you will see articles with hard evidence of this decline including test scores vis-a-vis other countries and basic competency declines across the spectrum from reading comprehension to STEM abilities. This is one of the reasons that the SAT has been “dummed down” at least once since the 90s and why many colleges spend much of Freshman year teaching kids what they should have learned in High School.

And NU admissions can daily differentiate an inflated 4.0 from one that reflects true achievement. Anyway, enough on this.

Go ‘Cats!
 
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