So, to reduce this to a totally micro level, for the next decade (if I understand all this correctly, and there's an excellent chance I do not), Creighton will forego revenues of a little over 1/2 million/year to help pay a bunch of 30-year old ex-nebraska football players. nebby will forego revenues of roughly $1 million per year during the same period. So, for every, say, a hundred bucks the corndogs ante up, we kick in more than fifty bucks.
Now if only we had won fewer NCAAT games, this would cost us (and everybody else in the BE) at least a little less. OTOH, by not winning ANY tournament games, the corndogs helped keep their costs down. Those cagey bastards down there in Lincoln. All along, sucking must have been part of the plan. All this time, they've been playing three-dimensional chess while we've been playing, well, winning basketball. (Except, apparently that's their strategy in football and baseball too).
This gives me an idea: Next time I need to paint my house or get a new roof, I'm going to ask my neighbors to cost-share. No, it's not their problem exactly, but they are my house-adjacent, and we're all part of the same neighborhood. I'll even put 'em on a ten-year plan because I don't want to be a jerk about it. Btw, do basketball players of the past share in this windfall too? Baseball? Tennis, cross-country?
I'd propose a nice raise for Val for her heroic effort in leading the opposition to this out-of-whack revenue-sharing plan, but it doesn't look like there'll be enough money left. Hey, how about a plan where all the non-P4 schools get to share in the football revenues of all the FB playing schools? Tickets, seat licenses, TV, swag, parking, hot dogs, beer (again, tea-totaling nebby's one step ahead of everybody else); we need a cut of all of it. If we're going to pay for all their middle-aged ex-football players, it seems only fair.