"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."
"...I think the videos do so well because they’re lower production and it feels that you’re just in a room with all of these teams talking to each other in a meeting."
Peacock will exclusively carry up to 47 men's basketball games and 30 women's basketball games, varying between conference and non-conference matchups.
"There’s so many games – and I’m talking to an ESPN play-by-play guy here when I’m saying this – we have so many games where not a lot of guys stick out."
The Big Ten conference is entering the first season of its seven-year, $7 billion rights deal with NBC, FOX and CBS – the largest media rights contract in history for a college conference.
"Simms has turned himself into an actual broadcaster. I think he’s gotten pretty smooth, but they would boot him out the door in a heartbeat for JJ Watt."
"You'll get plenty of more opening days. Let Howie and Keith Raad finish it the right way with 40,000 people, with optimism, hope, and then Howie can drop the mic and say I'm out."