[NU Sports] Big Ten Expansion this week?

[Peter Warner]

Pittsburgh doesn't add to the "footprint."  Pennsylvania is already in the
footprint because of PSU.  $0.88 per month per cable/satellite subscriber to
the BTN from footprint states; $0.05 per month from outside the footprint.

You are dead-on with Nebraska.  It's a sparsely populated farm state.  It
will cost the other Big Ten schools loss of revenue in the end because the
pot with the additional revenue divided 12 ways will be less per school that
the current pot divided 11 ways.

Peter Warner

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Arthur Miller
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 12:46 PM
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Big Ten Expansion this week?

I'm sorry, I just don't understand what offering membership to Nebraska does
for the Big Ten.  Sure, they have a great football tradition, but that's
it--no new major metro area, and no bump in academic status.  Plus, by only
bringing us to 12 members, it certainly wouldn't close the door on Notre
Dame joining in the future--not in the way that getting to 16 teams would. 
Am I missing something?
 
Now, if Nebraska came over as part of a Great Plains "package deal" that
included Missouri and Kansas...well, that would be a very different
situation.
 
It's funny how Pittsburgh seems to have dropped off the radar screen
completely as of late.  Any ideas out there as to why?


      


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