<p>Nearly $26 million per school</p>
<p>[Big</a> Ten payouts to hit $25.7 million per school : Sports](<a href=“http://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/illini/big-ten-payouts-to-hit-million-per-school/article_4eef1c1a-5a79-5b79-899b-3dbf2a99c871.html]Big”>Big Ten payouts to hit $25.7 million per school)</p>
<p>Column: Notre Dame not chicken, just greedy</p>
<p>[Y</a>! SPORTS](<a href=“http://sports.yahoo.com/news/column-notre-dame-not-chicken-224131882--ncaaf.html]Y”>http://sports.yahoo.com/news/column-notre-dame-not-chicken-224131882--ncaaf.html)</p>
<p>P.S. I am posting it here since it is somewhat related to B1G sports, and the fact that Irish football really deserves not a new thread in order to save forum memory.</p>
<p>I still don’t get it. Why is it more profitable for Notre Dame to cancel out the Michigan series and not the MSU or Purdue series?</p>
<p>This helps RU overcome their athletic program debt :)</p>
<p>Yes, now shape-up and don’t blow this opportunity. So far not so happy with RU.</p>
<p>All on the backs of cable and satellite subscribers. Unfortunately, that gravy train is likely to end:
[Households</a> Abandoning Cable and Satellite for Streaming - Forbes](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2013/03/19/households-abandoning-cable-and-satellite-for-streaming/]Households”>Households Abandoning Cable and Satellite for Streaming)</p>
<p>Live sports is the one bright spot for live TV/cable. That’s why prices keep going up. Can’t esily avoid commercials either.</p>
<p>The surprising truth about cord cutting</p>
<p>Despite all the recent hype about cord cutting, a new study reveals startling information about what people are really doing when it comes to cancelling cable.</p>
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<p>Smaller customer base = Less revenues = Less lucrative contracts</p>
<p>With internet streaming, people only pay for what they want to watch.</p>
<p>The TV viewing paradigm will change, probably sooner than later, but the TV and cable moguls will continue to squeeze dollars out of sports programming…because they can --for now.</p>
<p>And yes, let’s celebrate and raise our glasses to commemorate Notre Dame becoming a member (more or less) of that stellar and improbable powerhouse football conference --the ACC. Har har.</p>
<p>APNewsBreak: OSU head jabs Notre Dame, Catholics</p>
<p>[Y</a>! SPORTS](<a href=“http://sports.yahoo.com/news/apnewsbreak-osu-head-jabs-notre-163627789--spt.html]Y”>http://sports.yahoo.com/news/apnewsbreak-osu-head-jabs-notre-163627789--spt.html)</p>
<p>^^^Not something to be very proud of Sparkeye7. Gee is becoming quite chronic with foot in mouth disease.</p>
<p>^^ Well rjk, I am a fair alum when it comes to tOSU, am I not? :p</p>
<p>^ If the Orville Redenbacher clown thinks Louisville and Kentucky are bad academically, I wonder what he thought when he led West Virginia?</p>
<p>“One arrogant football powerhouse dismissing another arrogant football powerhouse …”</p>
<p>Journalists can get something right. Every once in a while.</p>
<p>He thought: how long before I move up and out from this dump?. We have too few people still willing to speak the truth out loud. Refreshing. Does not hurt Gov Christie.</p>
<p>Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee to retire</p>
<p>[Ohio</a> State President E. Gordon Gee to retire | The Columbus Dispatch](<a href=“http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/public/2013/06/ohio-state-president-gee.html]Ohio”>http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/public/2013/06/ohio-state-president-gee.html)</p>
<p>Fortunately, President Gee has already put together a comprehensive strategic frame work in terms of improving Ohio State’s academic profile, and has recruited some of the best administrators to lead and carry out the plan in the next decade or so since his return. Our next school president will certain to have big shoes to fill. Nonetheless, as an alum, I am certain that tOSU as one of the top public institutions in the country will continue its vector of advancing academically in the foreseeable future. Go Bucks!!</p>
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<p>Probably because of the way the contracts are structured. It seems pretty clear from the Yahoo Sports story that the Michigan-Notre Dame contract was structured as an automatically renewing year-to-year deal, but with an opt-out clause allowing either school to quit without financial penalty with a year’s advance notice. Sometimes the contracts call for stiff penalties for opting out. For example, Minnesota recently canceled a home-and-home series with North Carolina, basically because they WERE “chicken”; Minnesota’s football coach persuaded the AD that his rebuilding program required some non-conference wins, and he didn’t think his team could beat North Carolina. Minnesota ended up paying an $800,000 penalty.</p>
<p>My guess is there were similar penalties in ND’s contracts with Purdue and Michigan State, so it was cheaper to hold onto those two and cancel Michigan. But if Minnesota can afford to eat an $800,000 penalty, surely Notre Dame, can, too. For that reason I think there’s a little bit of “chicken” in there, too. Not that they’re scared of Michigan per se, but now that ND is back in the hunt for national titles, they’d rather have Purdue on their non-conference schedule than Michigan because it likely helps their W-L record. Since 2006, Michigan is 5-2 against ND. Over that same time span, Purdue is 1-6 against ND (though they’ve had some close scrapes). Resume padding. Michigan State has been a more evenly matched series, with MSU winning 3 of the last 7. </p>
<p>So you’re Brian Kelly, and you want to contend for national championships. You’ve got some perennially tough conference opponents coming up in Florida State and VaTech, sometimes Georgia Tech or Clemson. You’ve got an annual rivalry game with Southern Cal that you can’t give up because of what it means to your recruiting. So you want to dump one of three Big Ten teams from your schedule. One of them you beat most of the time; another you beat half the time; and the third you beat less than 1/3 of the time. Which one is most expendable? Easy call. Blame it on finances.</p>
<p>The Big Ten’s Arms Race: New Basketball Facilities</p>
<p>[The</a> Big Ten’s Arms Race: New Basketball Facilities | Eleven Warriors](<a href=“The Big Ten's Arms Race: New Basketball Facilities | Eleven Warriors”>The Big Ten's Arms Race: New Basketball Facilities | Eleven Warriors)</p>