NBC drawing a Maryland home game for the 3rd time out of 13 broadcasts and 5th time overall showing the Terps would be hilarious.
While the Big Ten and its member schools are getting very rich due to the multi network media contact, NBC seems to be getting fucked over.
They're drawing tier 2 and even tier 3 games now in the pecking order. And they're getting killed in the ratings. Their primetime broadcast of the Charlotte at Maryland game was the 3rd lowest ranked Big Ten game all season, on any network. That's like Northwestern vs Southern Illinois at 11 am on BTN bad.
NBC was stuck with 3 Purdue Home games, 3 Maryland Home games, 1 Michigan State home game, and 2 games for Illinois.
In week one, the Big Ten home game non con slate is awful. NBC might get stuck with an even worse game that week.
Needless to say, NBC doesnt seem to be getting their $700 million worth.