re: Here come the takes: "Today was the darkest day in Big Ten history. It became the SEC."

The Big 10, of all conferences, has no room, as many here have said, to cast shade on other conferences.

If anything the Big 10, in last decade or so, has been the poster boy of an out of control college conference turning a blind eye to horrible things. They make the SWC back in the "wild west" days look like saints.

"We hold ourselves to a higher moral standard! Unless, you know, you know, you count the Ohio State wrestling coach who ignored sexual issues with his program and then got elected to Congress. Or the rapes at Michigan State. Or Penn State. Or..."

The list of shite the Big 10 has covered up in the last two decades is frankly staggering. If they weren't "The Big 10" the NCAA might have put the entire conference, in every sport, on probation.