As a follower of the ESPN Big Ten blog all season long, Rittenberg has been fairly positive about the Hawks. In general, he's not really prone to crapping on anybody, which is for the best, since if he does, he has to deal with the response from fans.
Although, I just challenged him on whether he actually goes to the Big Ten about plays that the conference needs to talk about (like that overturned TD in the Iowa game), compared to plays that don't need talked about (he wrote an article today about the Minnesota touchdown where the ball popped out of one receiver's hands and into anothers).