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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2571257, member: 780"]
I’m not sure, but I don’t think that’s the way it works. The money from the cable companies goes into the Big Ten pot and from there it is distributed to the schools in equal shares. In fact, I think that Rutgers is getting a small er share of that money until a point in time.

The Big Ten’s bringing Rutgers in was primarily to get the cable tv money that NJ represented. If that goes away, the case for bringing them in essentially disappears.

It would have all made sense to the MBAs that did the financial analysis. The associated “risk” was lost in the footnotes of the presentation slides. (What happens if the cable companies change their practices?)

Because it is non-quantifiable, Rutgers long-term “suckitude” wasn’t included in the financial model, or if it was it wasn’t given sufficient weight.

A school just can’t be that bad over such a long period of time without their being some underlying and possibly invisible factors. The Big Ten people were incapable of understanding that New Jersey and Rutgers were fundamentally different from Wisconsin and UW.
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