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Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti (cOck llama)

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Yippers and they admit it too:

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Skull Session: Ohio State Doesn't Care "At All" About Outside Criticism, Tony Petitti Thinks Divisions "Don't Really Work" in 18-Team Big Ten and YSU Coach Doug Phillips Talks Buckeyes

Ohio State doesn't care "at all" about outside criticism, Tony Petitti thinks divisions "don't really work" in an 18-team Big Ten and YSU coach Doug Phillips talks Buckeyes.
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DIVISIONS "DON'T REALLY WORK." When the Big Ten expands to 18 members next summer, the conference will do so without the reinstallment of football divisions, according to a report from The Athletic's Nicole Auerbach.

Where did Auerbach receive such info? Well, from the commissioner himself, of course!

The league will use the same Flex Protect Plus model it created for football scheduling after adding USC and UCLA and simply adjust it to incorporate new members Oregon and Washington. Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti told The Athletic that “divisions don’t really work” for multiple reasons.
“They’re very difficult to balance because they’d have to be large,” Petitti said. “And secondly, if you’re playing nine conference games and you’re breaking into divisions, you’re playing so much against your own division that you’re not really crossing over. The inability to see other teams and really connect the conference is not ideal. So, there’s a competitive aspect to it, but there’s also a practicality. ... We want our members to see each other as frequently as we can make it happen. The system that we have does that. Divisions would make that way more complicated.”
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PETITTI: “We want our members to see each other as frequently as we can make it happen. The system that we have does that. Divisions would make that way more complicated.”
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Let's call a spade a spade: The reason the Big Ten will keep its Flex Protect Plus model is that FOX, CBS and NBC want to see Ohio State – and Michigan and Penn State, but mainly the Buckeyes – face USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington as much as possible. And the media partners should want that! Ohio State-Indiana had 4.65 million viewers, but imagine what that number would have been if the Buckeyes battled the Trojans, Bruins, Ducks or Huskies. It would have met or surpassed the numbers Florida State-LSU (9.17 million) and Colorado-TCU (7.26 million) produced over the weekend.

So remember: The Big Ten's future college football decisions are not about "competitive aspects" or "practicality." It's all about the dollar, folks. Always has been. Always will be.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Flex Protect Plus model
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Underwhelmed by the actual punishment.

But i appreciate they came out with this after wheels were up. That's lowkey savage.
And made sure to place the blame on Ono delaying their response by an extra day -- probably certain they could pull a "wait until Sunday" card.
They didn't let the "too late in the week" narrative win and gave Ono some "due process" on schedule.
 
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