Spoke with #B1G commissioner Kevin Warren today on @SIRIUSXM about conference realignment. I asked him about contact with schools outside the Big Ten.
“I have not had any conversations myself about reaching out to schools or any schools reaching out to me.”
“I have not had any conversations myself about reaching out to schools or any schools reaching out to me.”
With expansion, Kevin Warren said the Big Ten will take a thoughtful, methodical approach.
“Sometimes more is better. Sometimes more may not be better. But you have to think through all of those issues. What does this do for our academic mission… our athletic mission…
“Sometimes more is better. Sometimes more may not be better. But you have to think through all of those issues. What does this do for our academic mission… our athletic mission…
… from a television network standpoint… these are things that you have to be very thoughtful about.”
“I just want to make sure we’re thoughtful. That doesn’t mean that people don’t expand and there isn’t realignment. If you do those things there is a way to do those things. It’s easy to think more is better….”
“… I’ve had people call me at Media Days say ‘instead of going up by two (teams), why not go up by four?’ … I’m constantly asking myself, ‘What’s the why? What’s the purpose of it?’ And make sure that purpose and that why have some redeeming value.”
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