Ohio State/Nike - worth $26 million

[tornado]

http://www.wane.com/Global/story.asp?S=7069112&nav=0RYd

Just how many shoes are $16 million worth of shoes alone?

[tornado]

I guess Nike thinks Ohio State is worth much, much more ($26 million for 7 years) than adidas thinks Indiana is worth.

Ohio State bartered to get a $26 million contract with Nike, but the best Indiana could get with all the scandal happening there was $21 million (eight years) from adidas.
Even Nebraska ($23 million/8 years/adidas) and Kansas ($27 million/8 years/adidas) were able to do better!

http://indiana.scout.com/2/751205.html

With this kind of $$ floating around that NCAA has NO control over, it makes you wonder why most of those kids would rather be the 13th player at a BCS school than start and play at a mid-major, huh?
We've already seen how this shoe company $$ ends up in the pockets of NCAA coaches, high school coaches, AAU coaches, schedulers, camps, clinics, and even recruits' family members.....

[DoubleJayAlum]

The lack of BCS football is what kills us on these deals.

We all know that the big schools have more money, but I didn't appreciate how much more until just the other day. The Omaha World Herald reported that Nebraska football has a net operating profit of $14 MILLION dollars !!!! Just in football!

[mike radigan]

The lack of BCS football is what kills us on these deals.

We all know that the big schools have more money, but I didn't appreciate how much more until just the other day. The Omaha World Herald reported that Nebraska football has a net operating profit of $14 MILLION dollars !!!! Just in football!

And it is always more than reported as there are big donors who only donate because of football/basketball. There is no way to account for the monies that would not be there because of this.