Tone Deaf Tony’s hearing seems to be improving.
The commissioner of the Big Ten, Tony Petitti, spent months failing to hear the college football world’s loud-and-clear message: Nobody liked his payoff proposals. Not the 16-team model with the four automatic bids for the Big Ten and the SEC, with two apiece for the Big 12 and ACC, plus one for a Group of 6 champion and three at-large bids. Not the 24-team or 28-team trial balloons that also would feature more automatic bids for the Big Ten and SEC than anyone else. Not his desire to mess with the regular season in order to create a round of intra-conference play-in games.
