There’s a lot of money at stake in college athletics these days. Iowa coach Krik Ferentz thinks that’s changed the game and it’s time for the NCAA to adjust. The game has changed. The players playing the games have changed. The rules governing the games have changed. The coaches coaching the games have changed. And the money at stake on the games has changed. That last one is really what drives all things, good or bad. In today’s college sports world, there are millions of dollars at stake for everyone involved and sums that large will drive people to do things they otherwise wouldn’t. For big time universities, it’s often $50M+ a year. Each of the Big Ten’s full participants took home roughly $54M last year as the conference brought in a record $759M in 2018. That money didn’t come in because the schools have great academic standards or they’re graduating athletes at a higher rate. No, those dollars came through the door because commissioner Jim Delaney sold television executives on the idea that millions o
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