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Message: [QUOTE="TerryD, post: 4022004, member: 1615"] Actually, Penn (not Penn State) and Notre Dame had their own individual national TV deals in 1951. The NCAA feared that they both would become too strong if they had control over their TV deals and were on national TV most weeks every year. So, the NCAA basically extorted ND and Penn into signing away their TV rights. Then, the NCAA got everyone else to do so, until 1984. "In 1951, five Notre Dame games were televised on the old Dumont Network. The package earned the school $55,000. Some athletic officials thought television would kill the live gate. Others wanted a piece of the tasty new pie. The NCAA soon moved into the picture, in part because many members were convinced that Notre Dame would monopolize the airwaves unless the NCAA negotiated a package for all its schools. Notre Dame decided not to fight it, and in 1952 began appearing on national telecasts in the NCAA package on a regular basis. "There's no question that the NCAA TV committee was formed in 1952 to stop Notre Dame," said Beano Cook, an ESPN college football analyst who's followed the sport most of his life. "Two schools were opposed to the TV contract -- Notre Dame and Penn, which had a big-time program." [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1991/09/05/now-notre-dames-golden-season/5d27a2fe-1ab3-42aa-bbc8-10ebe8ce6ba8/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bannersociety.com/2021/3/29/22356607/ncaa-television-contract-history-regional-broadcast-sanctions[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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