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It’s easy to bag on the Big Ten. It’s a bureaucracy, and as such it is an easy target for fan ire. Sometimes they don’t deserve our scorn. But other times...other times you find yourself reading that the Big Ten didn’t think very many people would be upset by the conference’s Friday football cash grab (via Land of 10):

“The commissioner [Jim Delany] made the comment that Friday night games have been happening all across the country,” Tenopir, executive director of the Nebraska School Activities Association, told Land of 10 during Day One of the Big Ten Conference Joint Group Meetings.