It's not all THAT widely known because neither party wants it discussed, but the NCAA had decided on a two-year minimum TV ban as part of the sanctions against Penn St. for allowing their football program to gain such prestige and priority that it could (and did) conceal a Jerry Sandusky. It's a hammer that should have fallen...if it is ever going to fall again. So why didn't it? Because the B1G let it be known that if PSU received any TV ban they had the votes and would proceed to terminate the school's membership.

(Read that again and ask yourself if the Networks have attained FAR too much power over college football.)

Looking down the road at the events that need to happen to bring this round of realignment to an end, I can't help but think about the reckoning that may be awaiting UNC-CH over academic fraud (on the heels of their misdeeds strictly relating to athletics). The fact that said reckoning could come at the hands of SACS and not the NCAA could conceivably be making UNC-CH radioactive to ANY conference where they might have been a slam dunk otherwise.

Why would that hold back realignment? Well, if you're the SEC or B1G the last thing you want to do (other than invite UNC-CH only to have them become universitie non grata soon afterwards) is bypass the Tarheels, have SACS officially sign off that they're satisfied, and have the other conference snatch them up. Just thinking out loud about the possible impact that could be having.