Can B1G build consensus from others, and from within, for reform goals?

ROSEMONT, Ill. – The word “holistic” got thrown around so much during this week’s Big Ten Joint Group Meetings that it felt like the conference was running a new-age medicinal clinic on the side.

That’s the buzzword league administrators have used for months in describing how they want to tackle recruiting reform. It’s one reason why you didn’t hear a huge Big Ten outcry during the satellite-camp debate. Conference leaders would rather examine recruiting from top to bottom than howl over a single issue.

“We can hunker down now that we’ve got the camp thing settled down a little bit,” Nebraska athletic director Shawn Eichorst said. “We can talk about it all holistically, comprehensively. It…