.Northern Illinois stunned No. 5 Notre Dame last weekend break on a last-second field goal to scratch college regulation football's initial big distress of 2024. For the Huskies, it is actually a gain they'll be celebrating for several years ahead. For the Battling Irish, it's a season-crusher. To drop the home opener to a little school from an extremely inferior event was an embarrassment for Notre Dame.Especially considering that they paid NIU $1.4 million to do it.This radiates a light on among the lengthiest as well as most pricey heritages in university volleyball: warranty activities. They're also contacted "funds activities," "payday video games," or, as I just like to phone all of them, "buy weeks." A pricey (as well as unsafe) traditionFor many years, in the 1st handful of weeks of the time, major college football organizations have actually spent smaller schools to come to play all of them in their house.In Week 1 alone, more than $35 thousand was actually devoted across a minimum of 55 promise video games, according to Front end Office Sports. Alabama created the biggest check to its enemy, Western side Kentucky, for an enormous $1.9 thousand. WKU shed that activity 63-- 0, yet they perhaps reached the trust the bus flight home and also most likely won't hesitate about it.In Week 2, 3 institutions-- Western side Michigan, Middle Tennessee, and Utah State-- obtained payments greater than NIU's $1.4 million. They dropped through a mixed rating of 156-- 3, yet they took home an overall of $4.85 million in the process.It's typically a good deal for both staffs. The little schools acquire a payday, the large schools obtain yet another home activity to dairy gameday profits. The little institution reaches play on the major phase and also receive nationwide visibility, the huge one acquires a dish on the timetable to start the year in a sporting activity without any preseason. So all's properly and also great until the smaller staff chooses to show out and draw the upset.