garbage school.
No, We are now a CIC school sharing in the federal research monies in the BILLIONS. Enjoy your measly 15 - 20 million a year for as long as the Big 12 lasts. While tOSU and others are currently enjoying payouts in excess of 30 Million. NU will be fully vested in 3 years but begin sharing CIC monies immediately.
Further, the super-conference model also points to gargantuan revenue sharing that even mighty Notre Dame can't turn down. As Corn Nation points out, the Big Ten's Committee on Institutional Cooperation receives 12% of federal research funds, a number that will only increase as the Conference adds additional research based schools. With NotreDame's recent re-dedication to research and graduate education, this is a pool of money that the school would be foolish to turn down because its football team wants an independent schedule. At a certain point, athletics don't matter in this equation, it's the research money that does. A slice of that research money pie may very well dwarf whatever payout a cable or network television contract provides. And just so we're clear,
the CIC received $3.5 Billion in federal See ya suckers!!!
