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Notre Dame Probably Makes Less $ Than Big Ten Teams



This article on Fanhouse by Clay Travis brings up some circumstantial evidence to point out that Notre Dame is making less than Northwestern, or any other team in the Big Ten (or SEC):

"...For example, Syracuse, a member of the Big East for football and basketball, took in just $4.7 million from the Big East in 2007. Even assuming that Notre Dame gets half of this number (which it likely doesn't, because football floats the boat in college athletics), Notre Dame's television and shared Big East conference revenue in 2009 will be, at best, $11.35 million.

Why's that number important? Because in 2008, every school in the Big Ten will clear north of $15 million from the conference, a number that will only increase in years to come. Every school in the SEC will bank, conservatively, $17 million. (Looking at the numbers it's likely the SEC will hit $20 million within a couple of years.) The reason for these increases is simple, spiraling television money. The Big Ten Network distributed $7.5 million to each conference school last year, and in conjunction with the 10-year, $1-billion deal that the Big Ten signed with ABC/ESPN, there's a whole lot of new television money floating around. Let me repeat that, the Big Ten Network alone has almost equaled the payout for Notre Dame's sacrosanct contract with NBC..."

And you have the love the last line:

"...Touchdown Jesus will stick out his palm. Yep, at long last the Fighting Irish will be begging for a piece of the Big Ten pie."

Check out the whole article, a pretty good read IMO:

http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2009/06/15/as-notre-dames-tv-money-dwindles-so-too-should-its-independenc/

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