Today's Enquirer featured an exchange of insults between a Comcast VP and Big 10 Commish Delahney with the Comcast mouth asking, "How are you going to get an Indiana Basketball fan to watch Iowa Volleyball?" Delahney made some other remarks that tipped his hand, using
OSU, PSU and UM football to leverage money for the whole league. As I read comcast's remarks it was pretty much "after ABC/ESPN pick off the games they want your down to IU at Northwestern and that's a niche network." As if BET and HSN aren't niche networks.
Sorry, I looked for this on the Enquirer web site and the story isn't there so no link.