SPORTS - College Sports Money Machine

This subject relates to what is turning college sports into big-money professional sports. This is what is the foundation behind things like the Pen State scandal which threatens the college football money machine.

"College Teams Play Game of Musical Chairs Switching Conferences for TV Contracts" PBS Newshour 11/29/2012

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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): ...... The college football season is reaching a climax of rivalries and conference championship games, and its basketball season is now under way. But much of the action in college sports these days is away from the field or the court, as schools change affiliations and leagues.

In the last 18 months, some 30 colleges have made moves, among the most prominent, the University of Louisville's departure from the Big East to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, or ACC, and two Eastern schools headed to the Big Ten, traditionally a Midwest-based conference.

The University of Maryland is leaving the ACC and Rutgers is departing from the Big East.

Well, what's going on? Well, sportswriter and author John Feinstein joins me now.