Jim Harbaugh supports players receiving revenue share from Big Ten television contract

In the new day and age of NIL, players across the country are receiving deals left and right. Of the people inside the top 10 of the NIL 100, seven of them are current college football quarterbacks. Even so, those earned dollars are coming from outside parties. None from whatever school they are attending.

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh would like to see that change. On Monday, he advocated for his team and others around the Big Ten conference to receive revenue sharing. Harbaugh voiced his support of giving a portion of the Big Ten’s new television contract to players.

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The dollar figure was the main selling point for the Wolverines’ headman.

“I do believe players should receive a revenue share from the massive TV deals,” Harbaugh said via Brett McMurphy of the Action Network. “Don’t you agree? A large piece should come from the ones negotiating those TV deals. It’s 7-point something billion. It’s a lot of money. I think players should receive a revenue share.”

In early August, the Big Ten announced a new, ground-breaking television contract with three different networks. Between CBS, Fox, and NBC, the conference will be receiving over $7 billion over a seven-year period. Harbaugh is just the latest to suggest players should be getting a fraction of the cut.

Jim Harbaugh speaks on Michigan quarterback competition

Harbaugh‘s interesting decision to prolong his quarterback competition into the season with Cade McNamara starting in Week 1 and JJ McCarthy in Week 2 has reached its halfway point. McNamara started this weekend against Colorado State, and Harbaugh was asked about how his quarterback rotation will continue to look moving forward.

“It’ll be the same thing, we plowed this ground about as thoroughly as it can possibly be plowed. I mean dating back to the summer when you ask the question I said ‘Yeah, one could start, the other could start or it could be a combination of both in the games.’ Those are the options, happy that we’ve still got another week to look at it. As we said that each would get a start and make it as fair as it can possibly be,” Harbaugh said.

McNamara went 9-18 with 136 yards and a touchdown in his start, and Harbaugh was asked if he believes there’s a reason why McNamara doesn’t seem to think Harbaugh is open to the back and forth nature of using both quarterbacks moving forward.