The purpose of college is to educate promising young intellects, not to prepare functional illiterates for multimillion dollar paydays for their gladiatorial efforts ... oh wait, I am distracting you all from the incredibly effective efforts of the Investment Bank Party (ie REPUBLICRATS) to distract you from the outright gutting of what it took 200 years for this country to build ... sincerest apologies
No need to apologize. The reason for all this is, of course, money. Jim Delaney, Big Ten commisioner, was hired to make $$$ for them and he has payed off in spades. The Big Ten Network brings each school about $6,000,000 for doing nothing more than exsting. Football, even at my beloved Indiana University (Go IU basketball, Go Coach Tom Crean!) is the main dollar generator that keeps all other sports viable. Of course IU b-ball sustains itself but few other schools can claim that.