SeattleNDfan wrote: Indiana and Illinois are already reaping obscene profits from their television network and both those schools would take a loss financially if they ever made a BCS bowl game.

Heck, even Ohio State lost over a million for their NC game against Florida. And Florida lost money on that trip as well.

There is absolutely no incentive for those schools to try harder, they are content sitting back suckling on the teats of Michigan and Ohio State.

Now, if they stopped equal revenue sharing...

remmuh80 wrote: the problem with the big ten....

it stinks. 

OSU, Mich, PSU, Nebraska, Wisky... ok.

after that... huge drop off from appeal to 4/5 of the country.  Weather has nothing to do with it.  The other schools have historically sucked... and with the lack of great coaches will continue to suck.  The re-invest very little into their

What great player wants to go to Illinois and play infront of 40,000 people?

What great player wants to go play at Indiana infront of 20,000 people.