I don’t have the time or bandwidth to deal with the internal machinations of the Big Ten’s financial fleecing of itself. So let’s begin with the obvious.
Is Tony Petitti trying to kill the Big Ten all by himself?
Just when you think it couldn’t get worse than the last dolt of a conference commissioner asking players to run two seasons in nine months during a global pandemic, who ruined the Big Ten’s reputation with something called the Alliance before bolting for the NFL, Petitti has decided to hang his tenure as Big Ten commissioner on allowing the Wolf through the door.
The Wolf of private equity.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you financial stupidity: the Big Ten, the richest and most financially secure conference of all — by a wide margin — desperately trying to jump in bed with private equity in exchange for a piece of each school’s valuable, and ever-increasing, media rights.
