Brians source of income is dependant on this being the case. See below.
And its only tickets, travel, hotel and expenses If you believe these people were doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. Two people for 30 Big ten games (I mean, maybe not 2 every time, if one of the teams isn't on your schedule for a couple years, maybe you don't bother) then what another 5, 6 non B1G opponents we know about. Lets call it 50 total "observers" in attendance over 2.5 seasons. Even if you have some locals before hand, so maybe half the time you don't have to fly them in, so, let's say 50 tickets at $250 average = 12,500, 25 plane tickets @$400 round trip $10000, 25 hotel rooms @ $200 is 5000, Throw another $2500 in mileage expenses, 75 per diems(some one day and some 2) at $100 per is $7500, then you have to pay them, so I mean, if we really trim it down, call it another 75 for $200 a day is $15000.
So, that's over $50K right there. And that's before Ubers and whatever else I'm not thinking of, airport parking, "dry cleaning services" etc. Also, does he have to ship them all cameras?
This is all BARE minimum and we can imagine a lot of the playoff opponents trips got really really pricey. (the big 10 ones obviously have some more reasonable tickets if you can plan in advance which they did, but Ohio State etc, you are pretty much in the secondary market due to lack of access) So I think double his annual Salary is certainly in range.
Here's the thing, the likelihood is that Michigan thinks someone did this to them, (and cared) and said, fuck it, we're going whole hog. I can think of a lot of scenarios where this happens in one off situations where, you know you're Iowa, and you've got a guy in Columbus or Detroit that you trust, could you go show up and see what you can find out for us. And there's just rumors like that... but its one offs so its hard to figure out.
Plus, simple Jim paranoia and Wisconsin keeps beating you and not only are they beating you but they seem to know what's coming and it gets worse and worse, and you drink more and more milk, and the walls start to make fun of you and the bearded lady won't stop screaming in your head, and the fairies wear boots...
I cannot think of a scenario however, where they thought this all up on their own...
I dunno if it was the blue Astro Turf of the era or shitty TVs in the late 90's, but that blue was JARRING. It seems a touch less Smurftacular now.
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