Visited the site of a great controversy in NCAA history, the Penn football stadium. NCAA rules limited TV slots for power football programs, such as Oklahoma and Georgia, to give TV time to schools such as Penn. This quaint idea spurred Oklahoma and Georgia, and others to form their own TV alliance. The NCAA retaliated by threatening sanctions against these schools in basketball and other sports. Oklahoma and sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act ... after which cooler heads prevailed. This paved the way for power schools to get much greater market exposure, and eventually, the Big Ten became the first to do its own TV network. Penn Stadium is beautiful and was the site of a women's lacrosse practice as we visited.
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