Shot in the dark assumption, but when Tom Osborne said this:
I'm guessing his Political career saw some nasty e-mails from time-to-time. But more recently, I'm betting Osborne & Perlman received some pretty vile e-mails throughout the whole Big Ten expansion event over the summer. I even remember Osborne telling the BTN hosts the night they announced the 2011-2012 Big Ten football schedules that he received a lot of negative e-mails from Big Ten fans over the Michigan/Ohio State game possibly being moved to an earlier date in the future. He just smiled and said "I'm not a voting member yet, so it's out of my hands. Sorry I can't help you.""I've said all I'm going to say. I've had all kinds of e-mails over the years. It's not a problem."