“It occurred to me that we needed to be very proactive about developing a presence in the corridor,’’ the Big Ten Commissioner said. “It was one of maybe the most important of many decisions that we wanted to make to live here not visit here. While the Big Ten has been around for 122 years and we have the largest alumni base and probably the most disparate Big Ten distribution, we want it to be more than clear. We wanted to actively compete and participate in this corridor.
"Why this (Northeast) corridor? I think it's probably the most important corridor in the country — maybe the world — if you look at media, if you look at politics, if you look at banking, if you look at finance.