ACC pays out roughly $30+ million per school. SEC and Big Ten pay out $50 million or so per team. Notre Dame gets $15 million per year on TV and some other monies as well but far short of what the conference payouts would be.
Is this a part of their unwillingness to spend like other schools do for coaches, etc... I know they opened their checkbook to get Marcus Freeman, but that was a deviation from past practice. Has their traditional unwillingness to really fork over the really big dollars to compete for the best coaches and biggest staff of analysts, etc... due to our receiving less money that the other major conference programs?
Pete Sampson.
As to "opening the checkbook" for Freeman, I think it was circumstantial. I believe that the willingness to do what it took to get him was related to the commitment Kelly made in 2020 to racial justice and the issue that his staff lacked diversity at central positions, particularly coordinator. It was why I was skeptical of the suggestion that Kelly would promote Mike Elston to DC: if Kelly made that crony hire, then it would suggest he was just virtual signaling about racial justice, or worse, suggest there were no qualified black coordinators out there to hire, which given Freeman was manifestly not true. So if Kelly and Swarbrick felt they really had to find a black coordinator, then Freeman -- who was the hot name regardless of skin color -- would be a priority.
Link: https://twitter.com/PeteSampson_/status/1419326604489203715?s=20
ACC pays out roughly $30+ million per school. SEC and Big Ten pay out $50 million or so per team. Notre Dame gets $15 million per year on TV and some other monies as well but far short of what the conference payouts would be.
Is this a part of their unwillingness to spend like other schools do for coaches, etc... I know they opened their checkbook to get Marcus Freeman, but that was a deviation from past practice. Has their traditional unwillingness to really fork over the really big dollars to compete with the top programs for the best coaches and biggest staff of analysts, etc... due to our receiving less money that the other major conference programs? Or has it just been a matter of not caring enough to spend the money?
The Single High Notre Dame football podcast is back in action this week with our 6th episode. We’re really doing this folks. So far we’re keeping up with doing at least one new pod a week and this week’s is pretty action-packed. We were joined by Ashton Pollard, a journalism student at Northwestern who has also previously written for Sons of Saturday. The three of us ran through a lot of predictions and over/unders for the 2021 Notre Dame football season.
Link: https://www.uhnd.com/podcast/2021/07/22/podcast-notre-dame-2021-season-props-predictions-and-a-whole-lot-more-with-special-guest-ashton-pollard/