Well, I hate to bust your bubble, but if all this goes through, you can just about expect that there will be changes in the way that the Big 10 has done things. It will become more about making money for it's members...so I can see them either pushing the idea of a ppv system with a few free games on television, or see them jacking up the prices on their internet streams. I can also see them going to the local cable companies and jacking the cost to carry the games live. In the end, we are going to pay, but for me it is worth it. I am all over the United States on football Saturdays, if I could get the games on the laptop, I would be absolutely thrilled to death, as long as the cost was reasonable. But when they go PPV, I think they look at it like we all get together and everyone pitches in a few bucks at a party, so they feel they can keep the price up ($30-50 range sometimes), which I will not pay. I can read about it on the Huskerboard or listen to it on Sirius. Hopefully it won't screw up our deal with Sirius Radio, but that may be something that will have to be renegotiated too, since that was a Big XII deal that was made. The Big 10 does have their deal with either Sirius or XM, not sure which, hopefully it is Sirius. Even with the Best of XM, you don't get all the games that XM carries.
It seems like lately the push for PPV is becoming greater...which in my opinion does nothing but lose fans, especially the younger ones.