re: I thought Big Ben was supposed to be on our side!

Not that difficult to understand.

His first priority is the Orioles. After that, it’s the ESPN and SECN nationally broadcasted games in which he must be neutral, including sometimes broadcasting games not involving LSU. He really only gets to be “one of us” if we have a game streaming on SECN+ and he’s available in his schedule to team up with Lyn Rollins because games on SECN+ are produced and distributed by the schools themselves with their own selected production crew.