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TerryD

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I have to laugh as an ND fan when I take a 30,000 foot view of this.


When ND signed the NBC deal for $9 million a year in 1991, people like Joe Paterno went out of their way to criticize ND as a "banking institution" instead of an academic one.

ND was reviled as "greedy" and "selfish" when it was getting that money and $17.5 million a year for making the BCS back then, especially when other schools were not feeding at that large of a trough.

Now, apparently, "greed is good" since the conferences are signing huge TV deals.

There is now even talk about some schools leaving other, lesser financially performing schools behind in a "breakaway" of the most popular and profitable schools.

"All for one, one for all" and the days of Ohio State propping up Illinois and USC propping up Washington State seems to be falling by the wayside.

Now, "eat what you kill" seems to be a lot more popular than it used to be when ND was doing the eating and killing.

I guess it all depends on who is doing it and whose ox is being gored? I guess that ND had it right all those years ago?

(Don't get me wrong, I am agreeing with your post, the overall irony as an ND fan strikes me as, well, ironic)

(In response to this post by Colonel Jessup)

Posted: 04/11/2022 at 11:48AM



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