(09-10-2015 01:21 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(09-10-2015 01:16 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  It's still Minnesota v Wisconsin, Michigan v Ohio St, etc., even if none of the teams have NFL draft picks.

No, it's not. If the top 25% of CFB players are all playing in other conferences, then Michigan-Ohio State would have an appeal closer to Harvard-Yale than Alabama-Auburn.

The Big Ten knows that. Notre Dame knows that. The enormous revenue stream goes away if you start playing Ivy-like football. That's why this is a bluff.

It is only an "enormous revenue stream" for the athletic department.

For the university, it is a small amount of money.

Restructure things in the athletic department, then the need for high athletic revenues decreases markedly.

I thought it was a bluff the first time Jack Swarbrick said. After he repeated it, I wondered.

Now, the president of the university goes out of his way to specifically go on the record on this.........