Back in the days before the Big Ten Network, ticket sales and donations were the primary source of income for athletic departments. Television money wasn't insignificant, but it was a few million dollars in a much larger budget. In the last decade, television revenues have become so important that the Big Ten added one of the nation's worst athletic programs just to get the television sets that came along with it. If expectations are accurate, fully vested Big Ten athletic programs will be hauling in upward of $45 million per year, about eight times what they were making ten years earlier.
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