Expenses don't matter much in wealthy Big Ten

The excesses of college sports: I stayed at the same Eugene, Oregon, hotel as the Michigan women’s lacrosse team last week. The Wolverines flew all the way to Eugene for a single game, Saturday afternoon, a traveling party of about 40. They practiced Friday in a two-hour downpour on a day it was about 35 degrees. But when the Big Ten’s media rights package pays each school about $38 million per year, about $13 million more than each Pac-12 school gets from its media contracts, expenses don’t seem to matter much. 

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