Right now, ABC gets first pick of rights for the Big 10 ... the the Big 10 Network gets the rest.

What if they signed ALL their rights over to the Big 10 Network (their new tier 1 contracts starts next year), and then sublicensed high-profile games from there as needed? Or, if you want to keep the high-profile game, you keep it.

Seems like that's what he's talking about.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/2016/02/05/hackett/79869742/

“Starting in 2017, all the television broadcasts of a Michigan game at home or any time we play a Big Ten team are sold by the Big Ten Network. Now, the Big Ten network doesn’t televise all of them. ESPN will televise, Fox will televise, but in 2017 this contract starts to deliver our content. For example, in 2017 we play Florida in Texas at Jerry Jones Stadium down there, (and) we wouldn’t be able to see that in the future under this agreement. We could still go down there probably if we worked something out. In ’17 you could have NBC a player in both of our camps but we don’t know because the contracts aren’t settled.”