The "New" Pac-10?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Honestly, if you've ever been in New York, you'd realize that the Big 10 is on the local ABC affiliate virtually every single weekend already, and that goes double in Philadelphia. What you're failing to understand is that nobody gives two craps about college sports in the Northeast aside from Penn State, and the Big 10 already has saturation in the NY/Philly market through the Nittany Lions.

You are failing to understand that they own their own network and want to get into the biggest tv market in the country. Why is that eluding you? If you owned a TV channel that featured Big 10 sports and made money getting on cable networks and from sponsors don't you think that getting a foothold in the NY market is important? Who else is there in that market? If they have Rutgers and Penn State they have the two biggest programs in the region.