As I said up-thread, ND may actually join a league now. Someone agrees with me now. :lol:
Another interesting thought is that if the B1G doesn’t play this fall and the SEC does play, will players, like a Justin Fields, transfer to an SEC school to play the Fall.
Nebraska should be kicked out of the Big Ten anyway. They’re a poor fit. Nebraska doesn’t have the academic profile that other Big Ten schools have, and unlike the other members of the conference, they’re not a research powerhouse. Nebraska has already been kicked out of the AAU because their research is so weak, and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) consisting of ll the Big Ten schools plus U Chicago is a much more elite club than the AAU.
Nebraska was admitted to the Big Ten because they were once a football powerhouse, but even that isn’t true anymore, and in any event it represents a coarsening of Big Ten standards to admit a school on the basis of football alone. The conference has always stood for excellence across the board, in academics as well as in athletics, and on the athletic front, excellence in multiple sports, not just one.
Nor does Nebraska carry its weight financially. It’s the smallest television market in the Big Ten, and that’s where the conference makes most of its money. Nebraska draws a full share of the TV revenue but doesn’t come close to contributing full share of the television viewers. I say dump 'em whether or not they break ranks with the conference by playing football in 2020.
young and healthy athletes…let them play!
538 article is saying that Notre Dame isn’t in the national championship hunt because they play too many good teams? Isn’t the real problem being unable to beat top 20 teams? To win a title you have to beat 2 Top 4 teams in a row. The two times Notre Dame played for a title in the last 10 (one was BCS title game and other first round playoff game) they were blown off the field. Not sure how joining the ACC helps with that.
Clemson at this point is one of the, if not the, premier program in college football. Young, popular and talented coach with a pipeline of top talent year after year. Depending on how divisions/ACC title game are set, Notre Dame may need to beat Clemson twice in the same year to make the playoff. Not sure how likely that is to happen.
If joining a conference would help Notre Dame avoid being too hard on itself, I would think the Big 12 would have been the better option. They also would have to play 3-4 non-conference games so there likely would be another top 20 team to beat.
Very odd reasoning to me. But it does seem to appeal to Notre Dame fans. Notre Dame can’t compete because its academics are too tough is another one Domer fans seem to love.
I would expect the Power 5 conferences to take the same approach this season. May not happen but would be a surprise to me if it did. And if it did the SEC would be more than willing to make scholarship room for transfers. LOL
@bclintonk since joining the B1G in 2011, the Nebraska Volleyball team has gone 1st, T-2nd, 2nd, 4th, 2nd, 1st, T-1st, T-3rd, T-2nd in the toughest conference. They also have National Championships in 1995, 2000, 2006, 2015 and 2017.
I hate Nebraska. But, they do have a very large TV audience and a lot of the cable systems in the west carry the BTN (Big 10 Network). I live in Denver and have the BTN on my cable package but not the Pac 12. Many bars have the BTN so have viewing parties for Nebraska games (and MIchigan and Wisconsin). They have a big group of alums who follow them around in their gawd awful RVs to watch the games, and they bring a ton of money into those other school towns 8 times per year for football. They played in Boulder last year and we had to swear on our diplomas that we wouldn’t sell out tickets to Nebraska fans and WE didn’t, but the rest of the stadium did (my nephew sold his two for $500, and that paid for his entire season of tickets). It was a sea of RED and by far the loudest game of any type I’d ever been to. Oh, too bad CU came back from a 17 point deficit and beat them in overtime, and they had to slink on back home.
The schools in the western part of the Big 10 (Wisconsin, Minn, Iowa) would much rather play Nebraska in football or basketball than Rutgers or Maryland. More rivalry, more money brought in for a home game. Really, no one is traveling from Rutgers to the twin cities for a game, but those RED RVs will roll in from Nebraska.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29633697/heart-condition-linked-covid-19-fuels-power-5-concern-season-viability
As a parent I would want more time to collect data on “young and healthy athletes” who recover from Covid.
Ya gotta worry when getting infected with covid might mean those young, healthy athletes drop dead of myocarditis.
They also have two natty’s in Bowling during that time. 
However, rookie four year contracts for those drafted later than the upper second round are likely to be worth less than $3 million per year, although still higher than the pay level of “normal” new college graduate jobs.
Even if they do not drop dead, other outcomes could include being ruled medically unable to play due to the risk of heart problems, or having reduced athletic performance. Such outcomes would not be good for an athlete who is playing at an elite level for either or both of (a) potentially high compensation, or (b) enjoyment of the sport.
2020 Wage Scale by draft round. For 2020, if a rookie makes the 53-man active roster, then they’ll be guaranteed $610,000 in 2020.
http://footballnextlevel.com/tag/2020-nfl-rookie-salary/
2020 UDFA money:
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/undrafted-free-agents/
In post #246 above, I asked whether it would be more lucrative to be a practice squad player in the NFL or a starter in the CFL (Canadian Football League).
Although slightly off-topic, I ask because I am curious about possible alternatives for college football players who may miss their senior year of playing football.
Although it was shared by another poster that players on NFL practice squads make a minimum of $136,000 per season, my understanding is a bit different.
NFL teams are limited to a maximum of ten (10) practice squad players at any one time in addition to the regular season maximum of 53 roster players.
NFL practice squad players are paid a minimum of $8,000 per week. A regular NFL season lasts 17 weeks, hence the shared impression that practice squad players make a minimum of $136,000 per year ($8,000 x 17 = $136,000). While accurate if one remains on an NFL team’s practice squad for the entire season, I suspect that many do not.
Could the CFL (Canadian Football League) be an option for seniors during this closed or severely reduced NCAA football season ?
CFL players in 2018 made an average salary of $84,000Canadian which is about $62,000 to $63,000 in US dollars.
CFL teams rosters are required to have at least 50% Canadians.
Hesitant to post again but this one purports to be official.
Big 10 Press Release:
https://bigten.org/news/2020/8/11/general-big-ten-statement-on-2020-21-fall-season.aspx
Well, that sucks. There goes the cross country season. 
What the heck am I going to do Saturdays this Fall? 
Well it won’t be watching Pac-12 fall sports.
This isn’t borne out by the actual television ratings. In Week 14 of the 2019 college football season, Michigan v. Ohio State drew 12.42 million viewers, while Nebraska v. Iowa—probably Nebraska’s biggest Big Ten rivalry game—drew a paltry 1.43 million., or barely more than 1/10th the TV audience of the Michigan-Ohio State game the same day. And that was by far Nebraska’s biggest TV audience of the season, suggesting that it was probably mostly Hawkeye fans watching. No way can Nebraska compete in viewership with the big boys like Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State, of course, but even schools like Wisconsin, Michigan State, Minnesota, and Iowa regularly draw TV viewership far in excess of what Nebraska does.
Nebraska does “travel well.” Cornhuskers fans reliably show up at every rod game in their RVs, red cowboy hats, and bib overalls. No one questions their passion or their loyalty. But what that says about the size of the Nebraska fan base is illusory Nebraska is by far the smallest state in the Big Ten, with fewer than 2 million people., and that also makes it by far the smallest television market. Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Pennsylvania each have 10 to 13 million, and New Jersey isn’t far behind with nearly 9 million. Most of the rest of the Big Ten states have populations 3 to 4 times as large as Nebraska, with the sole exception of Iowa which clocks in at 3 million. Nor does anyone outside the state give a hoot about Nebraska football except a few UNL alums and Nebraska ex-pats, but because UNL is much smaller than most Big Ten schools, it has far fewer alums. It just doesn’t matter how many bars in the sparsely populated parts of the West carry BTN. There just aren’t that many people watching, and those that do are more likely tuning in to see Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, or almost any other Big Ten school.
Admitting Nebraska to the conference was probably the biggest mistake of Jim Delaney’s tenure as Big Ten Commissioner.
So, what is the financial implication if, say, only the SEC and ACC decide to play? What happens with regard to TV airings? Will there be bidding wars for games? I don’t understand the machinations of all of this. But, obviously, if a team isn’t playing, they aren’t getting TV revenues.
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No bidding wars. Contracts for networks to air college football games are typically made years in advance, usually at the conference level rather than at the level of individual schools. There are a handful or exceptions including independents like Notre Dame that makes its own deals and mavericks like Texas that owns its own Longhorn Network.
This isn’t at all obvious. The Big Ten has contracts with ESPN and several broadcast networks as well as BTN which the conference co-owns with Fox. It’s not clear to me whether the networks’ obligation to pay is contingent on games actually being played; that depends on the terms of the contract, and I’m not sure that at the time these contracts were negotiated anyone actually contemplated the contingency that an entire season would be canceled. It’s never happened before. It’s possible that one or more networks might be on the hook for payments for games that are never played. Or not. It depends on how much foresight the lawyers had in drawing up the contracts, and it’s hard to foresee an unprecedented event. This could well end up in court.