re: B1G expansion rumors are surfacing

Rutgers and Maryland are major State universities. There's really no looking back badly on this.

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but that they can jack up the subscriber fee if a B1G school is in that state.

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This. If your market is home to a B1G school, the subscriber fee is higher than if you're watching the channel in a non-B1G market.

"Let’s do a little quick “back of the napkin math” on this massive victory for BTN. At last check, the channel charges a $1.00 fee per subscriber per month for those customers within the conference footprint, which NY/NJ now falls into thanks to Rutgers. Much like the “Is Andy Murray British or Scottish debate,” New Jersey gets to be a part of the NYC metropolitan area seemingly only when it’s convenient to someone looking to make money.

Cablevision has 3.1 million subscribers in the area. Time Warner has a little more than 2.6 million subscribers in New York state, many of them concentrated in the city. New Jersey has a fraction of that at just over 40,000. Let’s just be extra conservative and put the total number of subscribers that will now get BTN at 4 million.

Just from this deal alone, the Big Ten just pocketed an extra $48 million per year."

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I think Dan Wetzel at Yahoo has said it's not about eyeballs, but that they can jack up the subscriber fee if a B1G school is in that state. This shite is going to come crashing down at some point. I'm not sure if it's cord cutting or a la carte packaging, but one day we're going to look back at realignment and think it was completely stupid. But, I guess if the money is so good now, it doesn't really matter.

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As "cutting the cord" gets more prevalent the providers will find a way to charge you. There will be a SECN app, a BIGN app, a PAC-12N app, etc and the networks will get their money.