For many football fans, Rutgers football might be regarded as the punchline to a horrible Jim Delany joke. Truth be told that no matter what you think about Rutgers athletics being in the Big Ten, Rutgers bringing the Big Ten into the New York metropolitan area was never a joke. In 2014, it meant $48 million a year extra just to BTN. That was back at the time when conference payouts to each vested Big Ten school was $32 million.
But Rutgers football was still a joke, right? Not when Delany make the move.