prior to last year ND would get the entire payout that a Conference would get for their team being in a bowl. We didn't share the payout with anyone. In Willinghams final year our brilliant athletic director renegotiated the contract with the BCS that we would get the normal payout (about $4.5 million) that any other team would get in a bowl game and $1 million for any year they didn't make a BCS bowl game ( or any bowl at all)
ND takes a gamble in new BCS format - College football - MSNBC.com
At first Domers were very upset with Athletic director Kevin White but maybe he knew something the rest of us didn't.......
OH yeah, why should we join a conference again?