Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:28 pm
ND will will join the year after their current NBC contract expires as it is highly unlikely that NBC will renew that contract for another term. Also, currently that NBC deal pays them roughly $15 million per season, currently every Big Ten school makes roughly $22 millionper season just from the BTN. Those numbers and the BCS will likely force ND into a conference and the only conference that makes sense is the Big Ten and while the BTHC does not factor in alot it does factor in some as ND puts more into their hockey program. Football still rules and likely always will but this is yet another carrot for them. I feel like their current NBC deal expires in 2014 (not sure but I think so) look for ND to join the Big Ten in 2015PuckU126 wrote:So true.MNHockeyFan wrote:Possibly, but I don't believe the Big Ten is going to make an exception for any school to play in their conference for just a single sport. In the near future it will be all sports or none (i.e. if you have a D1 team in any given sport you will play in the Big Ten). At Notre Dame football rules the roost, and they have an extremely profitable setup right now.DmanDad1980 wrote:MNHockeyFan
the CCHA they will have Notre Dame as one of their strong anchors once the Big Ten gets going
...and until Notre Dame joins the Big Ten in Hockey... and Football...
The Fighting Irish will not be joining the Big Ten in football ever. They make a lot of $$ being televised by NBC. They will remain independent to get that green.