Eric Collins was searching for that next step in his career.
Living in Chicago and doing college basketball and football broadcasts for the Big Ten network was cool and all, but he had greater aspirations. Something beyond that gig and the freelance one he had with Fox Sports 1.
“I had been with a team before,” Collins said. “I was with the Los Angeles Dodgers for five years, and I knew that being with a team was what I wanted to do. You get tired of flying commercial flights and you get tired of six-hour car rides through a snowstorm just to try to get to Purdue.