More Las Vegas Sports Hospitality: Big Ten Conference Media Days Come To Mandalay Bay This Week
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Story by Alan Snel Photos by Hugh Byrne
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — A beefy lineman from the University of Nebraska by the name of Henry Lutovsky said he loves football so much he would play college football for no salary.
That thought sure sounds nice, but the reality of today’s bigtime college football means teams need tens of millions of dollars to pay players and to compete for a national championship. (Las Vegas hosts college football’s title game at Allegiant Stadium in Jan. 2027.)
LVSportsBiz.com spoke with players and a head coach, Mike Locksley, to find out their thoughts about college football players drawing NIL money and salaries. Here’s Maryland lineman Isaiah Wright:
Nebraska’s Lutovsky offered these thoughts:
Maryland’s Locksley:
What is the Big Ten conference from the Midwest doing in Las Vegas having its football media days at Mandalay Bay?
Well, the league of the gridiron colleges of the Midwest now includes no less than four former Pac-12 schools from the West Coast — UCLA, USC, Washington and Oregon. The Big Ten literally spans the continent from Rutgers in New Jersey to USC and UCLA in Los Angeles.
With 18 schools in the geographically humongous conference, the media days are lasting Tuesday to Thursday in Las Vegas with six head coaches and their players chatting with the media each day.
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