Expansion went out with a whimper by media intervention…
Mixed emotions.
There’s a side to me that wanted a little bit of a lot of chaos (and maybe end up with a playoff). Yet, I didn’t want an ACC/Big East merger due to raids from the Big Ten and SEC. It’s a cake and eat it too [...]

The Big Ten made the first move with starting their own network with the ultra-creative moniker, the Big Ten Network. Disputes with cable providers and a few trips around the DirecTV dial ensued, but they have made some money from the deal despite controversy.
The SEC and ESPN went ahead and finalized that ESPN was really [...]