Indiana Hoosiers “Sell Out,” Trade Home Conference Game for Cash

Posted by Tim Cary on August-26-2009 Add Comments

According to a release from the Indiana University athletic department, Indiana has agreed to play its 2010 home game against Penn State at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland.

In exchange for moving the game from Bloomington to the suburbs of Washington, D.C. (and selling an allotment of 7,000 seats), Indiana will receive $3 million.

Anybody else see the writing on the wall?

Not quite sure this is Delaware State forfeiting a conference game to earn an Ann Arbor guarantee, but it's close.

The Hoosiers' decision to sell out in hopes of a sellout is one more sign of the economic times we're living in, and IU shoul...

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