The biggest item of interest in last weekend’s Wisconsin-Ohio State football game wasn’t P.J. Hill’s health (not good enough) or whether the Badgers could knock off the No. 1 Buckeyes (they couldn’t).
It was all about who has control off the field when it comes to television.
The University of Wisconsin has been feeling the heat, apparently, over the game airing on the Big Ten Network rather than network or national cable channels. Barry Alvarez’s athletic department issued three separate public statements within two days last week, lamenting that the corporate chiefs at Time Warner and Charter, Wisconsin’s two largest cable companies, weren’t doing right by the state’s Badgers fans.