.Northern Illinois stunned No. 5 Notre Dame last weekend on a last-second basket to notch university soccer's initial significant distress of 2024. For the Huskies, it's a win they'll be commemorating for several years ahead. For the Dealing with Irish, it's a season-crusher. To lose the home opener to a small institution coming from an extremely poor association was a humiliation for Notre Dame.Especially due to the fact that they paid for NIU $1.4 thousand to do it.This beams a light on some of the lengthiest and very most expensive customs in university volleyball: assurance games. They're likewise called "money games," "salary video games," or even, as I like to phone them, "get full weeks." An expensive (as well as unsafe) traditionFor years, in the first couple of full weeks of the period, primary college volleyball institutions have actually paid much smaller institutions ahead to play them in their house.In Week 1 alone, much more than $35 million was spent across at the very least 55 guarantee activities, depending on to Front Workplace Sports. Alabama composed the largest examination to its own rival, Western Kentucky, for an enormous $1.9 million. WKU lost that video game 63-- 0, however they perhaps reached the trust the bus adventure home and also probably won't think twice about it.In Week 2, three colleges-- Western side Michigan, Center Tennessee, as well as Utah State-- obtained payouts greater than NIU's $1.4 million. They shed by a bundled credit rating of 156-- 3, but they take away a total of $4.85 thousand in the process.It's usually a deal for each staffs. The tiny schools get an income, the major universities get yet another home activity to milk gameday profits. The little college reaches play on the large stage as well as obtain national exposure, the large one receives a cupcake on the timetable to begin the year in a sporting activity without any preseason. Therefore all's effectively as well as really good up until the minimal staff decides to show out and also take the upset.