09-13-2024, 10:43 PM
(09-13-2024, 10:20 PM)martyup Wrote: Notre Dame has been able to field top notch athletic teams without any conference affiliation.
Yes, they do. In one major sport. Yet they found it desirable or necessary to be a a conference for mens and women’s basketball and I think all other major sports. Wonder how much a network would pay for the rights to Stanford Football? We know they wouldn’t pay $30. Million for all sports as part of a conference.NBC is reported to be paying Notre Dame $50m per year for football and tney get $17 M from the ACC for other sports. So that’s $67m per year for athletic TV rights..about what the Big 10 will pay.
Notre Dame is an exception to every rule and probably the only one..but I did not think of their football program. I don’t think we are in the football class any more than I think they are in our academic class. But if someone would pay us even $30 million a year for all of our tv rights, we could look at going the independent route. I doubt that’s out there or we would have grabbed it , but I don’t know that.