Football on TV

I love to watch football, my alma mater in high school went from good to bad to good to bad again. My college alma started its season with a 56 point thrashing of some division I-AA team. That wasn't even the biggest win of the night (Louisville 73 Murray State 10 are you kidding?)
The pros kick off in less than a week and as usual I will make my picks and predicts for the week.
But what I'm on the soapbox about is the sudden rise in the networks and colleges to make a fast buck off the games that are being shown.
When I was a kid, the CFA had a strict leash on how often a team could be shown. Up until bowl season you rarely saw teams other than Notre Dame (who was then and still is an independent) on TV more than once or twice a year. With the rise of the major sports only TV network like ESPN and Fox Sports you have the ability to see teams more often and the dissoluition of the CFA meant a relaxation of the TV rules. Me being a Michigan fan, I could see the Wolverines every game and now with the formation of the Big Ten Network has created a way for people to follow the major football conference. Not only are the football games televised but also other sports that do not normally get much television exposure.
Greedy cable operators see this as an opportunity to make big bucks. They want the channel on a specialized sports tier that they can make extra money from rabid sports fans who are willing shell out the extra loot to follow their teams, conferences that have formed these sports network want the channel on a basic tier so that more people can watch it and more importantly have more television exposure for advertisers whose revenues are so critical.
I live in an area served by Time Warner who is the second largest cable system in the country and so far is holding the line on putting the network on its system. The whole situation is annoying most of these cable systems have so many of these useless channels that no one uses and no one watches. (I'm not referring to the Public Access) There are some channels that are just not effective and all they are being used for is glorified local advertising or use for car dealers. Why cant these channels be used for these sports networks? Its a rhetorical question, I know why, money. I dunno, I just wanted to vent. Read thearticle about how Time Warner subscribers cant get the Big Ten Network from the Cincinnati Enquirer. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070830/SPT/708300333/1062

I promise the NFL team previews and picks will be coming this week.