LINCOLN, Neb. — New Nebraska athletic director Troy Dannen expects income distribution in faculty sports activities to turn into extra performance-based over time, leading to an “eat what you kill” mannequin.
Dannen, employed at Nebraska final month after lower than six months with Washington, instructed ESPN that the longer term mannequin for the School Soccer Playoff mirrors what is going to occur across the larger faculty athletics panorama. Final month, the CFP and ESPN agreed to a six-year, $7.8 billion contract with a income distribution plan that can give Huge Ten and SEC colleges greater than $21 million yearly, considerably greater than colleges from different leagues.
“There’s going to be some meritocracy versus extra of a social method to income distribution,” Dannen stated. “You may finally see that inside leagues. You may finally see that throughout sports activities, possibly apart from soccer. An eat what you kill, in some respects, that mentality. It will be far more performance-based and outcomes, with regards to producing the income essential to compete.
“The CFP choices which have been made to date present that.”
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The Huge Ten Convention has operated with an equal income distribution mannequin, as higher-profile athletic packages like Ohio State and Michigan share with smaller and less-decorated colleges. Dannen famous that different leagues even have prided themselves on equal income sharing, however that the CFP mannequin is “a tipping level, possibly, for the place the longer term lies.”
“A whole lot of issues that we have traditionally prided ourselves on are now not related within the new day and age,” he added. “For many who refuse to let go of the embrace of the previous, the longer term is operating by us.”
Nebraska has by no means made the CFP and final certified for a bowl sport in 2016, a far cry from the workforce’s three nationwide championships within the Nineties and 22 league titles from 1963 to 1999. However Dannen thinks this system has no limitations on recapturing its championship custom, particularly if it makes obligatory investments in identify, picture and likeness, and different key useful resource areas.
He famous coach Matt Rhule’s earlier successes at Baylor and Temple, sturdy amenities and a big, passionate fan base that has bought out 396 consecutive video games at Memorial Stadium.
“You’ll be able to’t get misplaced in historical past,” Dannen stated. “Historical past reveals you what you are able to doing, but it surely would not present you tips on how to do it tomorrow. So I believe we have to stability our historical past with the brand new period, and never simply the period immediately, however the period that lies forward of us and the way we’ll help student-athletes and ensure that we’re a frontrunner and as progressive as we are able to in how we’re shifting ahead.”
