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I asked: "What would it take for Notre Dame Football To Join The Big Ten Conference ?"

Maybe the following excessively verbose article contains a possible answer in the single bit of hard fact information given in the piece:

When Notre Dame negotiated its current soon-to-expire contract with NBC, Notre Dame home games averaged 4.4 million viewers. Currently, that figure has fallen dramatically to 2.43 million viewers per home game which reveals an astonishing drop of 45% in home game viewership.

https://theathletic.com/4673824/2023/07/12/notre-dame-football-nbc-independent/

Not sure if Notre Dame football is in any position to get $65 to $75 million per year from NBC. With the current home game viewership numbers, Notre Dame would be [b]lucky[/b] to land a contract with NBC that paid in the $50 million per year range. An appropriate figure seems to be closer to $40 million per season rather than $50 million. With the Big Ten contract estimated to pay each Big Ten member school $90 million per year when USC & UCLA join next year, Notre Dame could be faced with earning less than 50% if it elects to remain as an independent football program. Even with a generous ACC payout to Notre Dame, Notre Dame would be looking at about 60% or less of what the Big Ten would pay. If Notre Dame joins the Big Ten Conference, individual team payouts could exceed $100 million per year.

And then there is Notre Dame's scheduling problem. As more elite football teams join the dominant conferences, Notre Dame may face difficulty scheduling top opponents since those opponents will have requirements from their conferences to play a minimum number of games against other conference members.

The article referenced & linked above is too long & boring with too few facts or hard numbers to be considered much more than a fluff piece, in my opinion. Why was it written ?[/quote]

If ND isn't worth the money to NBC, why would the be worth it to the Big10?[/quote]

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