“If it goes big, it will be huge,” Machen said. “If it doesn’t, it won’t be. I think it will be huge.”

Well, maybe more like Bernie Machen has no idea about whether to be worried about that.

For all the confident excitement about this, it seems like everybody’s forgotten it was Slive’s incompetence in negotiating the last TV deal that led to a conference expansion that he still hasn’t wrapped his brain completely around yet.  Why exactly are we supposed to believe that this time around he got it right?