One of the biggest driving forces in the latest round of conference expansion
and realignment was the lucrative Big Ten Network. Launched in 2007, the BTN has
been wildly successful and is projected to pay Big Ten member schools about $6.5
million each in 2009-10. That begs the question: can the ACC do its own network?
Before you answer yes or no, take a look at the numbers.
One of the best articles I read during Expansion 2010 was printed in the
Lincoln (NE) Journal-Star on May 30, 2010. It was titled Big
Ten Network a boon to member schools, and it contained the following salient
information: