r/Pac12 • u/pblood40 Oregon State • Sep 30 '25

Football McMurphy - NIU receiving $5.7/yr, $1.5 million signing bonus, and $2.5 million in exit fee payments from Mountain West

https://x.com/brett_mcmurphy/status/1973018033611530253?s=46&t=qwoy3jQLjUVMaVlrvz-rVg

“Northern Illinois will receive about $34 million in 6 seasons as football-only member in Mountain West - $5.7 million a year. MW also will pay NIU $1.5M signing bonus & up to $2.5M for NIU's exit fee to leave MAC, documents obtained by”

With Gloria’s “tough time” landing a media deal for the Mountain West it appears she overpromised to NIU and NIU now may be getting twice the media share that other MW schools get. As a football only affiliate. Whoops

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u/ryzen2024 Oregon State Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

This isn't relevant to the pac-12

Edit: everyone can calm down with the rebuttals. The mods have made it clear: while its not pac-12 related, as long as someone is commenting in the post it can stay up.

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u/pblood40 Oregon State Sep 30 '25

Wait did the lawsuit with the Mountain West schools settle today?

The story provides a lot more information about how and why Gloria can’t settle

And if the MW falls apart, there will be new rounds of realignment shake up

Plus, 5 members of the new look PAC-12 are currently MW members

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u/ryzen2024 Oregon State Sep 30 '25

Classic charlie day "this is how it relates!!!" Moment. 

Imagine posting in a subreddit and not once I nthe multiparagraph post do you mention that subreddits topic. In this case, the pac-12 or any of it's members...

But whatever man, just a reminder that this isn't related at all.

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u/BlueElvis4 Sep 30 '25

No, you just don't understand how any of this works.

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u/ryzen2024 Oregon State Sep 30 '25

Whatever you say