An amiable session in which the Big Ten and ESPN cleaned up “housekeeping matters” — schedules and announcers — took a nasty turn at the one-hour mark. That’s when talk turned to a contract extension, a negotiating session that went… Read More ›
Northwestern
The BCS Monopoly and How BYU’s Decision to Go Independent will further polarize college football
In a day when the Big Ten announced that Michigan and Ohio State would indeed be in different divisions, yet again making another of my expansion predictions ring true, the Brigham Young Cougars humbled yours truly by announcing their intention… Read More ›
The New Big Ten division alignments and solving the Ohio State-Michigan Problem
Everyone’s doing it. After months of discussing every possible conference realignment option, and even getting some things right, the college landscape saw four programs switch conferences: Nebraska joined the Big 10, Colorado and Utah joined the Pacific Ten, and Boise… Read More ›
A history Lesson: The case against a 16 team Super-Conference
The SWC disbanded after the WAC raided their conference ultimately forming college football’s first super-conference. They say that those who can not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Let’s hope Delaney and the boys were not ditching second period… Read More ›
Notre Dame and NBC: A Marriage Made in Heaven (If the Year Was 1953)
In thinking about the recent success of the Big 10 Network, generating already almost a quarter of a billion dollars in revenue in only its third year, I got to thinking about the future of television and what this means… Read More ›