Quote Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes View Post
Yeah, it obviously was about the money from the get-go. Just think of how much more money Big Ten Network could obtain in 2017 with the new TV contract with the Baltimore, New Jersey, New York City, northern Virginia, and Washington, D.C. markets added to the network footprint.
Utterly fail to understand this one. From my experience, BTN is already on most of the "basic" packages for Northern Virginia anyway. Would imagine it is for most of the DC area. Don't know about Baltimore. I think outsiders are assuming that no one in DMV cares about the Big Ten (which is insane considering the number of Penn State grads here) and that our cable packages don't include it, but that hasn't been my experience at all.

Will make Saturdays interesting though. Does ABC give the regional coverage game for DC/Maryland to the Big Ten or to the ACC? That would be a huge difference, more so than BTN.