Is Big Ten finally getting serious about winning?

Submitted by MonkeyMan on

Interesting article on Yahoo today. Basically says that Franklin, Nuss, Mark D contracts are a sign that B1G is finally willing to pay coaches enough to compete better. Article points to $ that B1G has and Rutgers and MD being added b/c of TV dollars / metro area viewers. Made me wonder if the B1G is trying to lock up the major media sites in the Midwest/East. Could CFB become like major league baseball- where the richest teams generally keep buying the best talent?

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/better-salaries-help-make-big-ten-more-att…
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Mr. Yost

January 11th, 2014 at 6:34 PM ^

Other conferences have just been better. But we're highering better coaches and spending more money...which is good, but it's not because programs weren't serious before.

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January 11th, 2014 at 6:54 PM ^

I doubt anyone in the Big Ten was never serious about winning. Everyone wants to win, from Michigan to Purdue. But it's just now that some programs are starting to realize that if you want big time results, you've got to pay big time money for big time coaches.

Some programs have more of a capacity to do that than others (i.e. UM, OSU, PSU, Neb) , but its a sad fact of our current reality with college football. If you want to win and do it on a consistent basis, you've got to pay for it.

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