The Big Ten has a new commissioner. And college athletics has its newest power player.
Tony Petitti takes over for Kevin Warren in what many would describe as one of the most powerful positions in all of college sports. Petitti will preside over one of the country’s richest and most successful college conferences.
While most view Warren’s tenure as a roller coaster ride—the lows of the COVID cancellation to the highs of a multi-billion dollar TV deal—Petitti walks into a stable and lucrative gig. The league recently agreed to that aforementioned television contract with Fox, NBC and CBS for more than $1 billion a year and secured the addition of expansion members USC and UCLA.
