Need more proof of the idiocy of the powers that be in the Big Ten and the Big Ten Network?  Here you go…

The Columbus Dispatch ran a story stating that the Big Ten Network would be available to all student dormitories.  The quote from Steve Snapp ran as follows:

“It was a high priority for us that our students got the games,” said Steve Snapp, OSU associate athletic director for broadcast services.

Hey Steve, I don’t know if you were aware, but OSU is on the quarter system, that means classes don’t start until after the Akron game.  So your “high priority” (and the Big Ten Network) is a bad joke.  Even if OSU were on the semester system, what about all of the “high priority” students who live off campus?  Another bad joke, told badly.  Perhaps “the games” he was referring to were contests like MSU v. Purdue in baseball. or PSU v. Illinois in mens gymnastics.

So congratulations to the gang that couldn’t (or more to the point, wouldn’t) shoot straight.  You’ve taken a multi-million dollar opportunity, and squandered it.  But don’t worry, the geniuses at the Ohio General Assembly will raise our taxes to make up for the lost revenue the next time OSU’s lobbyists come to them crying about a shortfall from expected television revenue.

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