Big Ten selling out tradition
Wait, you mean to tell me that when the Big Ten adds a 12th team next year, the Michigan/Ohio State game will no longer be the last game of the regular season? This is total horseshit! This graf by Dan Wetzel pretty much nails it:
“When you control a 100-plus-year-old tradition, you don’t make decisions based on a four-year television contract. To do so is symbolic of the NCAA run by MBAs, where a projected spreadsheet means more than a history book. It is about selling out a century plus for an overnight rating and then trying to explain it away with specious and short-sited reasoning.”
The sad thing is, each school gets, at most, about $150K extra if Michigan and Ohio State happen to make it to a conference title game - no certain bet. I can see why other Big Twelven schools like the idea of splitting the two into different divisions, but why the hell are Michigan and Ohio State going for it?
