STrib: Big Ten is bringing in big money as a TV star

For the U, ever-growing television revenue has been reliable as athletics struggled.

Six years ago, before the Big Ten Network debuted, the university received $10.7 million in annual payments from the Big Ten. Two years later, with the conference's network firmly in place televising football, basketball and other sports, Minnesota's annual share jumped to $18.8 million. It has since spiraled to $22.9 million in 2011 and figures to jump even more -- one unofficial estimate put the figure at $32 million by 2014 -- when Rutgers and Maryland join the Big Ten and push the conference into the lucrative East Coast markets.

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Go Gophers!!

All of this additional revenue should allow us to build the facility but the reality is why spend ypur own capital on it when you can eventually get donors and corporations to pay it for you. Sad but true.