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Big Ten should seek big names for expansion
Remember when the Big Ten was an athletic conference and not a cable TV network?
In those days, the only addition the league was rumored to be considering was Notre Dame. When Penn State came on board, it almost felt as if someone had added an Eleventh Commandment.
Now, though, the Big Ten Network is on the prowl. Commissioner Jim Delaney told the Des Moines Register last week that the birth of the network would mean expansion talks are on the way.
"The broader (the network) is distributed, the more value (expansion) has," Delaney said. "We have eight states. With expansion, you could have nine."
And to think Delaney wasn't even a math major.
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