It's just better to ignore the loathers. Who knows why they enjoy swimming in the murk of ignorance?
When the AD at Michigan is asked "Is the Big Ten expanding?" and answers the way that he did, shoot me for realizing that he gave an answer that did not preclude further expansion. The same for the AD at OSU.
How delusionally optimistic of me to realize that "maybe" means something different than "no." It's a curse for sure, and it's been around since I was a toddler. All these years and I never realized how bad I had it.