[Husker] Big 10 to increase number of league games.

[Dave Ratchford]

Check out the valuations of college football programs done by Forbes mag in
Dec. 2012.  Google will take you to it.  As Paul Dalen can no doubt
confirm, numbers can pretty much tell any story you want them to.  The
Nebraska athletic department makes a lot of money.  More than just about
all the other 126 (or so...not sure) FBS schools.  This idea that we have
to pay all these teams to come play in Lincoln because we *need* the money
so bad is wrong.  The idea that we must play 7 home games or we will be in
a dire financial plight is wrong as well.  We *want* to play 7 home games
of course, more home games for our fans.  We *want* the money from the home
games of course, put it to good use I am sure.  But the program being
severely impacted if we play 6 games every few years?  Not so. At all.
Worth it to play less lame OOC games.

Dave


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Gerald Jensen <answerman1 at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  If it results in one less home game every few years, and programs like
> OSU and Michigan aren't afraid of it, then Nebraska shouldn't be as well.
>
>
>
> This is a very short-sighted statement. Nebraska is no where close to the
> financial league of O-State and Michigan. I am placing a chart in the body,
> of this message, if it does not pass the Mike's server let me know and I
> will attach it. Nebraska is much closer to the bottom of the BIG than the
> top. Notice O-State had a $10,000,000 profit Michigan had a $10,000,000
> profit Penn State had a $15,000,000 profit Nebraska had a $1.5 million
> profit. We barely break even. Also note neither Penn State nor Ohio State
> receive any school subsidy and Michigan receives a pittance.
>
>
>
> School
>
> Revenue
>
> Expenses
>
> Subsidies
>
> Ohio State
>
> $131,815,821
>
> $122,286,869
>
> $0
>
> Michigan
>
> $122,739,052
>
> $111,844,553
>
> $272,684
>
> Penn State
>
> $116,118,025
>
> $101,336,483
>
> $0
>
> Wisconsin
>
> $96,288,191
>
> $95,623,345
>
> $7,237,901
>
> Iowa
>
> $93,353,56
>
> $88,057,486
>
> $564,680
>
> Mich State
>
> $84,510,199
>
> $84,004,229
>
> $3,650,280
>
> Nebraska
>
> $83,679,756
>
> $81,916,484
>
> $0
>
> Minnesota
>
> $78,924,683
>
> $78,924,683
>
> $7,778,861
>
> Illinois
>
> $77,863,883
>
> $73,476,818
>
> $3,983,640
>
> Indiana
>
> $71,017,355
>
> $69,314,511
>
> $2,686,769
>
> Purdue
>
> $66,202,493
>
> $59,429,383
>
> $0
>
> Northwestern
>
> N/A
>
> N/A
>
> N/A
>
>