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It’s painfully clear that modern-day major collegiate sports is little more than a mask for a select few entities to make boatloads of cash from a system which in essence encourages cheating and illogical decisions, under the guise of athletic competition and fairness. That said, our thoughts after reading this headline went something like this:

What in the world is Indiana University doing moving a home game from its campus in Bloomington to the concrete bowl and parking lot known as FedEx Field?

Here’s a hint: it involves $3 million.

The Hoosiers will move their 2010 home date with Penn State — scheduled for November 20 — from their on-campus Memorial Stadium to FedEx, in an attempt to provide a “bowl-like experience” (read: earn sacks of cash), reach out to “alumni that live along the eastern seaboard” (read: get wads of bills) and, ostensibly, to provide experience for the players and open up recruiting pipelines in the area (read: oops, I forgot, here’s the keys to the armored truck). Hey, at least Indiana athletic director Fred Glass isn’t sugarcoating things:

“Obviously, it’s very positive for us financially,” Glass told the newspaper. “When you rank second to the bottom in the conference in money spent per sport, you have to color outside the lines and be open to new ways to generate revenue.”

C’mon people, Indiana University is struggling to make a million dollars in revenue per game! Won’t someone please think of this massive research institution’s poor, poverty-stricken football team?

One figures that Glass looked at his schedule and figured that they had no chance in hell of beating Penn State anyway — after all, Indiana has never beaten Penn State in 12 tries, including a 34-7 shellacking last season — so why not make some cash while he can? The Hoosiers will only be forced to sell 7,000 seats for the game at the 90,000 seat stadium, a laughable goal for a school that plays in a conference which has two stadiums that seat over 100,000 people and treats Saturday football as but one notch under God in the pecking order.