Big Ten schools projected to make $45 million each in 2017-18 with new league TV deal

[BleedGopher]

per AnnArbor.com:

Michigan and its Big Ten brethren are set to ride an even larger windfall of cash flow in upcoming years.

According to a report in the Lafayette Journal & Courier, the Big Ten projects conference-wide revenues to rise annually and expects 12 of its 14 schools to pull in approximately $44.5 million apiece during the 2017-18 academic year.

That season mark the first year Nebraska "becomes fully financially integrated into the conference" according to the report, and the first year of the conference's new television deal.

http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/ind...igan_fellow_big_ten.html#incart_river_default

Go Gophers!!

 

[imthewalrus]

Coaches wages should rise pretty nicely! The athletic director should get a nice bump too. With the talk about expanding the play-off system in a few years, it is pretty evident why the NCAA and the Northwestern administration and football coach don't want the players to have a place at the table. The more money the system takes in, the less management wants to share any of the profits they consider to be rightfully their own wind fall.

The football and basketball players will provide the action, but the coaches and administrators want to collect all the proceeds to be split up between the non-revenue & Title IX Sports and the football and basketball coaches and school administrators because they have done such a good job "selling" the product that the student athlete football and basketball players make so very enjoyable to watch on cable television outlets.

No wonder Fitz and the Northwestern administrators were so incredibly passionate about not wanting the student athletes to have a voice in asking for a "share" of the rapidly growing and expanding profits from the games the student athlete players star in.