The Big Ten's Empire Runs into Resistance
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What are Tony Petitti's goals for the Big Ten this season?
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We're coming. And we ain't backing down. We don't need a bunch of cats in here looking in the mirror.
Everybody, get down!
Will you shut up? I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. Guys being dudes. And they run through our like through a tin horn, man. Alex, we are joined right now by a good friend of the show, Matt Brown, purveyor of the Fine Extra Points newsletter. Matt's going to be joining us all offseason, going to do a little sports business hour monthly, semi-monthly, who knows, where we just kind of talk about the pending sports business news of the day in college sports because, hey, it's college sports and that's what we do most of the offseason. Matt has a tremendous insight into all of these stories and happenings because of his work. At Extra Points, he's an industry expert as far as I'm concerned and where I go to get a lot of insight from his newsletter and obviously bounce a lot of stuff off of him.
So we're going to do a longer full Sports Business Hour with Matt, and it'll be in your paid feeds a little bit after the time you get this show. But we did want to carve out a little bit out of that show to throw it into this show. So Alex and Matt, let's talk a little bit about the Big Ten.
Matt, great to see you. We're both in Big Ten country.
Really, like the British Empire, the sun never really sets on the Big Ten. No matter where you are on God's green earth, I think the Pope must assign something in like the 1500s or whatever to make sure we're all in the Big Ten.
Yes, the sun never sets on Tony Petitti's empire.
Yeah, but great to be with you guys. I am happy to be college football's internet off-season guest because this is the stuff that I focus on more than the deep ball knowledge of you guys.
The off-season is his season.
That's right. That's right. Yeah, so let's talk about the Big Ten's money gambit here, huh?
Yeah, Matt, much like the British Empire, the Big Ten has been engaged in a lot of misadventures lately that are not necessarily to the betterment of the rest of the world or even to its own citizens, I would argue, with the two biggest ones being what both appear to be for the time being failed attempts or at least paused attempts to, number one, inject a bunch of upfront cash into the Big Ten's coffers and its schools' coffers by way of a deal with a private capital firm out of California, and two, by trying to expand the college football playoff, not to 14, not to 16, not to 18, not to 22, not to 23, but to 24 teams. And neither seems to have worked out. So Does Tony Petitti do anything other than put on a quarter zip and try to McKenzie his way through life until he gets enough administrators to agree with whatever his ideas are?
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