ROSEMONT, Ill. – Even before he took over as Michigan State’s athletic director, J Batt began to forge a relationship with Tony Petitti .

The Big Ten commissioner got to know Batt initially as one of 10 members of the NCAA’s House Settlement Implementation Committee, which Batt joined in March as the athletic director at Georgia Tech . He and Petitti now are part of the leaders guiding the Big Ten into future of college sports as the revenue sharing and name, image and likeness era continues to evolve.

“J has done a great job. He’s already contributing a lot,” Petitti said Thursday, Oct. 9, at Big Ten basketball media day. “Given so much that’s going on, our athletic directors meet on a weekly basis and J has been participating. Obviously, he’s very experienced coming from Tech,

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