.Northern Illinois stunned No. 5 Notre Dame last weekend on a last-second field goal to notch college football's first large distress of 2024. For the Huskies, it is actually a gain they'll be actually commemorating for many years ahead. For the Fighting Irish, it is actually a season-crusher. To drop the home opener to a little school coming from a vastly poor conference was an embarrassment for Notre Dame.Especially because they paid for NIU $1.4 thousand to carry out it.This beams an illumination on some of the lengthiest and most costly heritages in college volleyball: promise video games. They are actually additionally phoned "loan activities," "salary activities," or, as I as if to phone them, "purchase full weeks." An expensive (and unsafe) traditionFor many years, in the first couple of weeks of the period, major university football organizations have actually paid much smaller institutions ahead to play them in their house.In Full week 1 alone, much more than $35 million was actually devoted across at the very least 55 guarantee games, according to Front Workplace Sports. Alabama created the biggest examination to its own rival, Western Kentucky, for an immense $1.9 thousand. WKU dropped that game 63-- 0, however they probably attacked the rely on the bus trip home as well as most likely will not reconsider it.In Full week 2, three schools-- Western Michigan, Center Tennessee, and also Utah State-- acquired payments much bigger than NIU's $1.4 million. They dropped by a combined score of 156-- 3, yet they took home a total of $4.85 thousand in the process.It's usually a bargain for each groups. The little institutions obtain an income, the major schools obtain another home video game to milk gameday income. The tiny university reaches use the large phase as well as acquire national direct exposure, the huge one obtains a cupcake on the timetable to start the year in a sport without preseason. So all's well and also excellent till the minimal group chooses to show out and take the upset.