Notre Dame broadcasts sports on 6 Limbaugh stations. Purdue on 4 and Indiana University on 1.
That's just the Limbaugh stations- they may also broadcast on other republican radio stations. For a small portion of the total media licensing revenues those schools receive, those stations and their loudmouthed Republican bigots get to sell their bigotry while riding the sports mascots of those universities.
They put those logos all over their racist bigoted megaphones and they get community credibility and attract advertising dollars with that relationship.
If those universities decided to honor their mission statements they would declare their intent not to renew the radio portion of those media licenses and would look for apolitical alternatives. They could do that quite easily, right? Why not.
Removing themselves from those idiotic relationships would also end their endorsement of everything RW radio stands for -attacks on all aspects of public education and its funding, promotion of global warming denial, opposition to raising the minimum wage, and everything else the irrational Republicans stand for.
And many of those stations might have to change their programming.
90 major university football programs broadcast on 267 Limbaugh stations. That's almost 45% of his 600 stations. That is only for the higher rated football programs and omits schools that may only have basketball, etc.
All those Limbaugh stations generally helped sell this legislation with 25 years of bigotry and all of them specifically helped sell this hate legislation in association with their support for the Hobby Lobby bigots and other efforts by ALEC and other pro big business think tanks. All of those Indiana stations helped sell this specific legislation.
Those Indiana stations are big vote getters for Gov Mike Pence and the other Republican bigots and liars in that state.
My local Limbaugh station blowhard is defending Pence right now, probably using exactly the same rationalization as they all were given. And likely all or most of the local and national bigots on every one of those 1000+ Republican/ALEC/Koch radio stations will be or are defending him. That is the wind in his sails.
So students at ALL of those 90 universities could protest this bigotry and help prevent more.
BTW, like a number of Republican politicians, Pence is a former RW radio host.
NOTE: Indiana University Hoosiers broadcast on 36 radio stations- i won't check them all for RW radio but I'll bet it's more than the 1 I counted previously from a much smaller list.
The campus protests in Bloomington at Indiana U are being undercut by their own university.