[Stingray51]

The article is essentially telling businesses (like NBC) how to run themselves. If Notre Dame is paid too much, then whoever is paying them will lose money, at least relative to what could have been made. It is market discipline, not the opinion of a sports commentator with nothing at stake. And I have never understood this obsession over ND not being in a conference for football - if it is such a bad financial decision then it is money out of ND’s pocket; why should anyone else care in the least? This is just a lazy article - meet a deadline by beating up on Notre Dame football.

[driftless2]

"just a lazy article"

It's by Rick Reilly, the editor of SI who saw fit in one issue a few years ago to share his views about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Naturally, he was against both. Reilly is the poster boy for shoddy sports "journalism."