Cornhusker, thank your boys for helping out little ol' Troy, where I went to school.
Glad we could help out Troy with some pocket change..
You should see if alums could maybe get a kick back..
Hey, we lost our freshman QB the week before, (ya’ll will know his name soon enough) and the losing mentality was still in place with the culture of the Bama grad.
Big Ten Conference had nearly $759 million in revenue in fiscal 2018, new records show
Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY Published 6:52 p.m. ET May 15, 2019 | Updated 6:58 p.m. ET May 15, 2019
The Big Ten Conference has established a new benchmark in the how-high-is-up world of college sports finance: It recorded nearly $759 million in revenue during its 2018 fiscal year.
The figure, which far exceeds any comparable annual figure for a college sports conference, was revealed in a new federal tax return that the conference provided Wednesday in response to a request from USA TODAY. It is a year-over-year revenue increase of 48 percent, with the conference reaching $512.9 million in fiscal 2017.
The return also showed that commissioner Jim Delany was credited was just over $5.5 million in total compensation for the 2017 calendar year. That, too, is a single-year record for a conference.
The revenue total was driven by new TV agreements that took effect at the start of the 2017-18 school year and resulted in payments of roughly $54 million to each of the 14-team conference’s 12 longest-standing members. Maryland and Rutgers received smaller revenue-share amounts, but both schools also received loans from the conference against future revenue shares.
In February, the Southeastern Conference reported just under $660 million in revenue for fiscal 2018, resulting in an average of $43.7 million being distributed to the 13 member schools that received full shares. Mississippi did not get a full share because its football team was banned from postseason play.
