torre. had to get that one in, man. >> john, the officials at northwestern have been making dire predictionsbout what will happen if the team unionizes. they're saying that the construction of a new athletic facility at the university will be jeopardized, head coach fitzgerald might leave. how credible are those threats? the way i understand they work is football and basketball are cash cows and cross-subsidize everything else. >> it depends on who's writing the checks. it tends to be donors. if the donor is not happy, then the donor's not going to write that check. it's not based so much on university policy as it is on the whole development officer. that's how it breaks down. now, in the case of northwestern, it's got to be said, northwestern football is not a cash cow. every year the students, part of the tuition goes to athletics. $1,000 per semester per student was going to athletics at the all-time nader at that point, in the '80s. so northwestern is not a cash cow. that said, they do make a lot of money from the big ten network. northwestern right now, thanks to the big ten network an