Why is Jim Delany not smart?

[LafayetteBear]

Over on Rivals' Cal Board (which is a subscription board), the posters are talking about how the Pac has sucked this bowl season, how the B1G has pwned this bowl season, and about how the B1G got left out of the playoff. One Board member submitted a post that included the following two paragraphs:

"Jim Delaney [sic] is arguably the most powerful man in sports, so it seems he isn't going to take his conference being left out of the playoff after an 8-0 (or even 7-1) bowl record lightly, and will be a driving force to push for playoff expansion.

He knows being left out hurts the prestige of his conference, and ultimately that translates to dollars he doesn't want his schools to miss out on. Unlike [Pac-12 Commissioner] Larry Scott, he will doggedly fight to make his conference #1 in the country and won't rest until it is, and even then, he'll try extending his lead."

I responded by noting that Delany is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and far from universally loved in the B1G. Another poster then asked "Why is Delany not smart?"

My impulse was to simply note that he had: (1) taken a very hostile attitude towards PSU in the wake of the Sandusky fiasco, even after many of the NCAA sanctions had been walked back; and (2) made some incredibly unfortunate statements indicating a marked favoritism towards tOSU and UM, but I thought there must be more to it.

Help me out here. Why do you consider Delany to be a less than stellar B1G Commissioner? Or if you believe he IS pretty good, please tell me why as well. I want to be able to provide a fuller response to this question on the Cal Board.

 

[ga.lion]

Over on Rivals' Cal Board (which is a subscription board), the posters are talking about how the Pac has sucked this bowl season, how the B1G has pwned this bowl season, and about how the B1G got left out of the playoff. One Board member submitted a post that included the following two paragraphs:

"Jim Delaney is arguably the most powerful man in sports, so it seems he isn't going to take his conference being left out of the playoff after an 8-0 (or even 7-1) bowl record lightly, and will be a driving force to push for playoff expansion.

He knows being left out hurts the prestige of his conference, and ultimately that translates to dollars he doesn't want his schools to miss out on. Unlike [Pac-12 Commissioner] Larry Scott, he will doggedly fight to make his conference #1 in the country and won't rest until it is, and even then, he'll try extending his lead."

I responded by noting that Delaney is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and far from universally loved in the B1G. Another poster then asked "Why is Delaney not smart?"

My impulse was to simply note that he had: (1) taken a very hostile attitude towards PSU in the wake of the Sandusky fiasco, even after many of the NCAA sanctions had been walked back; and (2) made some incredibly unfortunate statements indicating a marked favoritism towards tOSU and UM, but I thought there must be more to it.

Help me out here. Why do you consider Delaney to be a less than stellar B1G Commissioner? Or if you believe he IS pretty good, please tell me why as well. I want to be able to provide a fuller response to this question on the Cal Board.

Over on Rivals' Cal Board (which is a subscription board), the posters are talking about how the Pac has sucked this bowl season, how the B1G has pwned this bowl season, and about how the B1G got left out of the playoff. One Board member submitted a post that included the following two paragraphs:

"Jim Delaney is arguably the most powerful man in sports, so it seems he isn't going to take his conference being left out of the playoff after an 8-0 (or even 7-1) bowl record lightly, and will be a driving force to push for playoff expansion.

He knows being left out hurts the prestige of his conference, and ultimately that translates to dollars he doesn't want his schools to miss out on. Unlike [Pac-12 Commissioner] Larry Scott, he will doggedly fight to make his conference #1 in the country and won't rest until it is, and even then, he'll try extending his lead."

I responded by noting that Delaney is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and far from universally loved in the B1G. Another poster then asked "Why is Delaney not smart?"

My impulse was to simply note that he had: (1) taken a very hostile attitude towards PSU in the wake of the Sandusky fiasco, even after many of the NCAA sanctions had been walked back; and (2) made some incredibly unfortunate statements indicating a marked favoritism towards tOSU and UM, but I thought there must be more to it.

Help me out here. Why do you consider Delaney to be a less than stellar B1G Commissioner? Or if you believe he IS pretty good, please tell me why as well. I want to be able to provide a fuller response to this question on the Cal Board.

He has done a great job managing the finances of the Big Ten. His main flaw is a bias to the Big 2 Ohio State/ Michigan

 

[GregPSU]

Over on Rivals' Cal Board (which is a subscription board), the posters are talking about how the Pac has sucked this bowl season, how the B1G has pwned this bowl season, and about how the B1G got left out of the playoff. One Board member submitted a post that included the following two paragraphs:

"Jim Delaney is arguably the most powerful man in sports, so it seems he isn't going to take his conference being left out of the playoff after an 8-0 (or even 7-1) bowl record lightly, and will be a driving force to push for playoff expansion.

He knows being left out hurts the prestige of his conference, and ultimately that translates to dollars he doesn't want his schools to miss out on. Unlike [Pac-12 Commissioner] Larry Scott, he will doggedly fight to make his conference #1 in the country and won't rest until it is, and even then, he'll try extending his lead."

I responded by noting that Delaney is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and far from universally loved in the B1G. Another poster then asked "Why is Delaney not smart?"

My impulse was to simply note that he had: (1) taken a very hostile attitude towards PSU in the wake of the Sandusky fiasco, even after many of the NCAA sanctions had been walked back; and (2) made some incredibly unfortunate statements indicating a marked favoritism towards tOSU and UM, but I thought there must be more to it.

Help me out here. Why do you consider Delaney to be a less than stellar B1G Commissioner? Or if you believe he IS pretty good, please tell me why as well. I want to be able to provide a fuller response to this question on the Cal Board.

 

[UncleLar]

Over on Rivals' Cal Board (which is a subscription board), the posters are talking about how the Pac has sucked this bowl season, how the B1G has pwned this bowl season, and about how the B1G got left out of the playoff. One Board member submitted a post that included the following two paragraphs:

"Jim Delaney is arguably the most powerful man in sports, so it seems he isn't going to take his conference being left out of the playoff after an 8-0 (or even 7-1) bowl record lightly, and will be a driving force to push for playoff expansion.

He knows being left out hurts the prestige of his conference, and ultimately that translates to dollars he doesn't want his schools to miss out on. Unlike [Pac-12 Commissioner] Larry Scott, he will doggedly fight to make his conference #1 in the country and won't rest until it is, and even then, he'll try extending his lead."

I responded by noting that Delaney is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and far from universally loved in the B1G. Another poster then asked "Why is Delaney not smart?"

My impulse was to simply note that he had: (1) taken a very hostile attitude towards PSU in the wake of the Sandusky fiasco, even after many of the NCAA sanctions had been walked back; and (2) made some incredibly unfortunate statements indicating a marked favoritism towards tOSU and UM, but I thought there must be more to it.

Help me out here. Why do you consider Delaney to be a less than stellar B1G Commissioner? Or if you believe he IS pretty good, please tell me why as well. I want to be able to provide a fuller response to this question on the Cal Board.

He's smart enough to have earned the conference mega-millions of dollars - and he's surely orders of magnitude brighter than all of the posters who can't figure out how to spell his name.

 

[GregPSU]

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Over on Rivals' Cal Board (which is a subscription board), the posters are talking about how the Pac has sucked this bowl season, how the B1G has pwned this bowl season, and about how the B1G got left out of the playoff. One Board member submitted a post that included the following two paragraphs:

"Jim Delaney is arguably the most powerful man in sports, so it seems he isn't going to take his conference being left out of the playoff after an 8-0 (or even 7-1) bowl record lightly, and will be a driving force to push for playoff expansion.

He knows being left out hurts the prestige of his conference, and ultimately that translates to dollars he doesn't want his schools to miss out on. Unlike [Pac-12 Commissioner] Larry Scott, he will doggedly fight to make his conference #1 in the country and won't rest until it is, and even then, he'll try extending his lead."

I responded by noting that Delaney is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and far from universally loved in the B1G. Another poster then asked "Why is Delaney not smart?"

My impulse was to simply note that he had: (1) taken a very hostile attitude towards PSU in the wake of the Sandusky fiasco, even after many of the NCAA sanctions had been walked back; and (2) made some incredibly unfortunate statements indicating a marked favoritism towards tOSU and UM, but I thought there must be more to it.

Help me out here. Why do you consider Delaney to be a less than stellar B1G Commissioner? Or if you believe he IS pretty good, please tell me why as well. I want to be able to provide a fuller response to this question on the Cal Board.

To answer your question I will quote Ron White:"you just can't fix stupid"

 

[LafayetteBear]

He's smart enough to have earned the conference mega-millions of dollars - and he's surely orders of magnitude brighter than all of the posters who can't figure out how to spell his name.

LOL. Thanks for that, UncleLar. Fixed the spelling of his surname in my OP.

But if he is "orders of magnitude brighter" than the rest of us, why do you suppose he has gotten himself in a position where so many people regard him as biased? Do you think this is limited to PSU fans? It does not strike me as being that way.

 

[justnitts]

Well, he did take sexual favors as payment to ignore NCAA rules violations... so he has a demonstrated lack of integrity...

 

[AWS1022]

Over on Rivals' Cal Board (which is a subscription board), the posters are talking about how the Pac has sucked this bowl season, how the B1G has pwned this bowl season, and about how the B1G got left out of the playoff. One Board member submitted a post that included the following two paragraphs:

"Jim Delaney [sic] is arguably the most powerful man in sports, so it seems he isn't going to take his conference being left out of the playoff after an 8-0 (or even 7-1) bowl record lightly, and will be a driving force to push for playoff expansion.

He knows being left out hurts the prestige of his conference, and ultimately that translates to dollars he doesn't want his schools to miss out on. Unlike [Pac-12 Commissioner] Larry Scott, he will doggedly fight to make his conference #1 in the country and won't rest until it is, and even then, he'll try extending his lead."

I responded by noting that Delany is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and far from universally loved in the B1G. Another poster then asked "Why is Delany not smart?"

My impulse was to simply note that he had: (1) taken a very hostile attitude towards PSU in the wake of the Sandusky fiasco, even after many of the NCAA sanctions had been walked back; and (2) made some incredibly unfortunate statements indicating a marked favoritism towards tOSU and UM, but I thought there must be more to it.

Help me out here. Why do you consider Delany to be a less than stellar B1G Commissioner? Or if you believe he IS pretty good, please tell me why as well. I want to be able to provide a fuller response to this question on the Cal Board.

He forgets there are 14 members in the Big. You can be a brilliant manager, but if you show favoritism to one or two of your employees, you will lose any and all credibility. That's what's happened to Delaney in my opinion.

 

[LineMountain]

He is good at making $$ and in the end that’s all that seems to matter.

 

[jim cummings]

Booing him in Indianapolis was the 3rd greatest pleasure of my life. But the best part was that he actually got the message.

 

[johnmpsu]

He is not commissioner of the big 10(14). He is commissioner of the Big 2. Enough said.

 

[PSUriseANDfire]

Not his his biggest fan but he is VERY smart. He is also very pissed and will end up being the driving force to a playoff expansion. The Big Ten is the best conference in the country and it isn't really close.

Will be no exclusion going forward, IMO.

 

[Locolion]

He has done a great job managing the finances of the Big Ten. His main flaw is a bias to the Big 2 Ohio State/ Michigan

In addition, he continues to allow officials that live in X state to referee games in X state.

Also, the addition of Rutgers to the conference diluted both the academic and athletic perception of the conference all in the vein of attemptig to garner the NYC TV market. By the way, NYC could give two poops about Rutgers as that metroplex is filled with people from all over the country (and world). It turns out that NYC ratings haven’t jumped due to Rutgers’ addition - duh. The North Carolinian hilljack clearly doesn’t understand the Northeast.

The ball has not advanced on payment of student-athletes and seems to be an issue they are afraid to address or lack the creativity to try and address. Same goes with the college CTE claims now arising.

He’s clearly completely comfortable allowing the BIG10 to mirrror the cartel/syndicate-like approaches of FIFA, NCAA, and NFL with his HUGE oersonal paydays coming with the new TV contracts ($20M bonus - holy hell).

Delaney’s conference alignment within the BIG10 is a bust as 4 of the 5 best teams reside in the Eastern conference. This is going to hamper the ability of getting into the CFP (see last 2 years, could have even had 2 teams in 2016).

 

[PSUriseANDfire]

D-E-L-A-N-Y

I am not a spelling Nazi but holy crap.

 

[Obliviax]

Over on Rivals' Cal Board (which is a subscription board), the posters are talking about how the Pac has sucked this bowl season, how the B1G has pwned this bowl season, and about how the B1G got left out of the playoff. One Board member submitted a post that included the following two paragraphs:

"Jim Delaney [sic] is arguably the most powerful man in sports, so it seems he isn't going to take his conference being left out of the playoff after an 8-0 (or even 7-1) bowl record lightly, and will be a driving force to push for playoff expansion.

He knows being left out hurts the prestige of his conference, and ultimately that translates to dollars he doesn't want his schools to miss out on. Unlike [Pac-12 Commissioner] Larry Scott, he will doggedly fight to make his conference #1 in the country and won't rest until it is, and even then, he'll try extending his lead."

I responded by noting that Delany is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and far from universally loved in the B1G. Another poster then asked "Why is Delany not smart?"

My impulse was to simply note that he had: (1) taken a very hostile attitude towards PSU in the wake of the Sandusky fiasco, even after many of the NCAA sanctions had been walked back; and (2) made some incredibly unfortunate statements indicating a marked favoritism towards tOSU and UM, but I thought there must be more to it.

Help me out here. Why do you consider Delany to be a less than stellar B1G Commissioner? Or if you believe he IS pretty good, please tell me why as well. I want to be able to provide a fuller response to this question on the Cal Board.

Well, he is a big reason why their is no B1G in the playoff. As commissioner, he needed to support the idea that his champion should represent the best league in the playoffs. He didn't do that last year by supporting tOSU over the B1G champ. As a result he had no leg to stand on this year when his champ had two losses and his other choice, Wisconsin, just lost.

 

[demlion]

His conference champion got hosed this year because he UNDERCUT the champion LAST year. Whether he screwed us because he is stupid or because he is vengeful hardly matters. In fact, vengeful IS stupid in that setting. What he failed to foresee is that the team he vaulted over PSU last year got destroyed and quit on the big stage, and the committee saw that they could ignore the BIG champ from now on.

A conference member was publicly attacked and had it' bowl money taken because a fb coach in his 80s was allegedly told about a shower incident. AT THE VERY SAME TIME MSU's Nassar was abusing gymnasts. An OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY TITLE IX investigation basically gave him rules, and he did not follow them. 140 women have sued MSU. Delaney is invisible.

 

[getmyjive11]

Over on Rivals' Cal Board (which is a subscription board), the posters are talking about how the Pac has sucked this bowl season, how the B1G has pwned this bowl season, and about how the B1G got left out of the playoff. One Board member submitted a post that included the following two paragraphs:

"Jim Delaney [sic] is arguably the most powerful man in sports, so it seems he isn't going to take his conference being left out of the playoff after an 8-0 (or even 7-1) bowl record lightly, and will be a driving force to push for playoff expansion.

He knows being left out hurts the prestige of his conference, and ultimately that translates to dollars he doesn't want his schools to miss out on. Unlike [Pac-12 Commissioner] Larry Scott, he will doggedly fight to make his conference #1 in the country and won't rest until it is, and even then, he'll try extending his lead."

I responded by noting that Delany is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and far from universally loved in the B1G. Another poster then asked "Why is Delany not smart?"

My impulse was to simply note that he had: (1) taken a very hostile attitude towards PSU in the wake of the Sandusky fiasco, even after many of the NCAA sanctions had been walked back; and (2) made some incredibly unfortunate statements indicating a marked favoritism towards tOSU and UM, but I thought there must be more to it.

Help me out here. Why do you consider Delany to be a less than stellar B1G Commissioner? Or if you believe he IS pretty good, please tell me why as well. I want to be able to provide a fuller response to this question on the Cal Board.

Delany is an ass but he has been the best and smartest commissioner in college athletics. He took a conference that has only averaged one NC per decade and made it into what will be the highest revenue generating league of them all. Meanwhile, the PAC-12 can’t even get a national distribution of its network, the Big XII is hanging on by a thread and the ACC is woefully under-paid even with the ND quasi-addition. Only the SEC is on equal footing but they should be crushing everyone.

Say what you want but JD has been brilliant. An ass, but brilliant.

 

[Crusher1950]

The guy is a jerk, period. He even looks like a jerk

 

[chalkstream1]

The Big 10 probably is the best conference right now and while going 8 and 0 this bowl season will be a nice stat this conference has been beating up on a pretty lousy pac 12 conference, which is the other conference that was left out of the playoff. I don’t think the teams that the B1G has beaten that were not Pac12 teams were of any consequence either. I definitely think the conference is the best I’m just not sure this post season proves it. Would’ve been nice for someone to get a win over a team like UGA or Oklahoma etc. Has to be expansion because 8 and 0 or not there is no room this year among the top 4. Start with the Power 5 conference champs getting automatic bids and take 3 at large bids based on some formula to include strength of schedule and ranking.

 

[PSUriseANDfire]

The Big 10 probably is the best conference right now and while going 8 and 0 this bowl season will be a nice stat this conference has been beating up on a pretty lousy pac 12 conference, which is the other conference that was left out of the playoff. I don’t think the teams that the B1G has beaten that were not Pac12 teams were of any consequence either. I definitely think the conference is the best I’m just not sure this post season proves it. Would’ve been nice for someone to get a win over a team like UGA or Oklahoma etc. Has to be expansion because 8 and 0 or not there is no room this year among the top 4. Start with the Power 5 conference champs getting automatic bids and take 3 at large bids based on some formula to include strength of schedule and ranking.

All fair.

You don't think if we had the opportunity to play Oklahoma we could've ran right with them? Maybe into the ground late.

I think they are going to be the title winner and I also think PSU, Wisconsin or OSU all would have had a chance in the playoffs.

 

[chalkstream1]

For sure we could’ve. I just don’t think we have the smoking gun we need right now to get in without the head to head

 

[Nitwit]

Agree on the addition of Rutgers but I guess he did it in a cost effectively way for the conference. Maryland, penn State, and Nebraska were all good additions. He needs to finish with two more additions. I still think geographical contiguity makes the most sense. Adding 2 of ISU, BCU, Pitt, uconn. Va tech, Va, WVA would get us there barring ND’s interest. Or else somehow make a more expansive play for say a Texas or Oklahoma. school or a big 10 retirement location like UCF, South Florida or Arizona, ASU, or BYU, to move into bigger yet untapped TV markets. Adding UCF and South Florida would make for some interesting games and attract a big audience. Also it would be a nice bowl like destination for visIting fans from the north and all the retirees who are alums living down there.

 

[demlion]

D-E-L-A-N-Y

I am not a spelling Nazi but holy crap.

You have to respect someone to care how his name is spelled. I do not respect the chucklehead. No matter how you spell it, it comes out Martinet

 

[getmyjive11]

You have to respect someone to care how his name is spelled. I do not respect the chucklehead. No matter how you spell it, it comes out Martinet

Why don’t you respect the most successful commissioner in college athletics?

 

[itsofficial101]

Not his his biggest fan but he is VERY smart. He is also very pissed and will end up being the driving force to a playoff expansion. The Big Ten is the best conference in the country and it isn't really close.

Will be no exclusion going forward, IMO.

You do realize that he is pissed because Ohio St didn't get their invite using the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT that he supported to get them invited last year?

I am not sure how that could be viewed as smart. If he had half a brain, he would be able to realize that he helped to create that which he is now pissed about. The rest of college football isn't going to recognize that the B1G championship is only supposed to mean something if Ohio St or Michigan wins it.

 

[pandaczar12]

He's smart enough to have earned the conference mega-millions of dollars - and he's surely orders of magnitude brighter than all of the posters who can't figure out how to spell his name.

Yeah sure... He earned the conference all that money.... not the universities, coaches, and players. He's simply a case of being at the right place at the right time.

 

[pandaczar12]

Why don’t you respect the most successful commissioner in college athletics?

Why don't you respect the most successful coach in college football history?

 

[demlion]

Why don’t you respect the most successful commissioner in college athletics?

See above, dumbass.

 

[83wuzme]

I did a quick search to see how long Delaney has been commissioner ( 1989 ) and the option “ Jim Delaney, comedian “ came up. For a moment, I wasn’t sure if that was the correct option.
Seriously, there should be term limits for conference commissioners for the same reasons there shouldn’t be Senators and Congressional reps with 30 year tenures.

 

[Ranger Dan]

I think Delaney is very smart, although not universally loved and respected, especially here in the Penn State universe. I’m one of the doubting thomas’ who don’t buy into the myth that Delaney and the Big Ten conference has an agenda to prop up tOSU and Michigan at the expense of the remaining conference teams. I don’t think he is as powerful as some may think, however, because he doesn’t seem to have influence outside conference, and seems to only be good at making money (not that this is a bad thing).

 

[Madsol]

D-E-L-A-N-Y

I am not a spelling Nazi but holy crap.

Umm, yeah, I think you are. Adding an "e" to his name seems pretty natural. It's a long "a" sound. Plus, it's l-a-n-e so d-e-l-a-n-e-y really isn't some egregious mistake.

 

[PSUriseANDfire]

Umm, yeah, I think you are. Adding an "e" to his name seems pretty natural. It's a long "a" sound. Plus, it's l-a-n-e so d-e-l-a-n-e-y really isn't some egregious mistake.

It isn't a big mistake. Sort of weird when it was pointed out so many times before how it is spelled. If it is on purpose then nobody cares.

 

[Art]

So, y'all think that Delany is biased on behalf of OSU and Michigan? Well, unlike y'all who are privy to the meetings that take palace of have discussed matter with the Amoeba himself, I can't say for sure. But you'd think that the other members of the conference would be aware of this and that some might even not like it. And, while I'm not good at higher math, last time I checked twelve was greater than two. So, I'd like to think that if at least one president of a school other than Michigan or OSU, maybe even Indiana Fats himself, were displeased with the favors showered on the so-called Big 2, he or she would rally the others to insure fairness.

But it hasn't happened. So,when all is said and done, it ain't Dealny's fault, it's that of the people who ratify his compensation.

 

[Madsol]

It isn't a big mistake. Sort of weird when it was pointed out so many times before how it is spelled. If it is on purpose then nobody cares.

Honestly, before this thread, if someone had asked me how it was spelled, I would have said with an "e". I'll remember now.

 

[Bobpsu]

The Big 10 probably is the best conference right now and while going 8 and 0 this bowl season will be a nice stat this conference has been beating up on a pretty lousy pac 12 conference, which is the other conference that was left out of the playoff. I don’t think the teams that the B1G has beaten that were not Pac12 teams were of any consequence either. I definitely think the conference is the best I’m just not sure this post season proves it. Would’ve been nice for someone to get a win over a team like UGA or Oklahoma etc. Has to be expansion because 8 and 0 or not there is no room this year among the top 4. Start with the Power 5 conference champs getting automatic bids and take 3 at large bids based on some formula to include strength of schedule and ranking.

I will be happier with a 7 and 1 bowl record this year.....F' M

 

[JosephNit]

First for the easy part. No, there is no "e" in the man's name. And if you're gonna rag on somebody for supposedly misspelling a name, you should check to make sure you have it right first. (Personally, I think pointing out spelling errors, in any case, is cheap-ass in the extreme.)

Delany is in fact a very smart guy and in many ways he's been a very effective, even brilliant, commissioner. His initiatives (a groundbreaking and incredibly successful television network among them) have enriched Big Ten members. He's presided over the expansion of the conference and helped guide it to an arguably premiere position in the world of college athletics -- definitely to include football. There's no question that in the process he's become one of the most influential and powerful individuals on the college football scene.

Unfortunately, like a lot of very smart people in positions of great power and influence, he has one huge flaw, which is that he's an arrogant prick who often either can not or will not surmount his own biases in order to do the Right Thing. In fact, people like Delany come to think they have no biases or, worse, that their biases are somehow justified and even virtuous. Ironically, this flaw in Delany's character came back to bite his precious Buckeyes in the ass this year. Which makes me very happy.

In sum, yeah, he's smart, and he's accomplished a lot. But I don't admire or even particularly respect the man. At this point, I think it would be better for the conference, and definitely better for Penn State, if he'd just ride off into the sunset.

 

[getmyjive11]

See above, dumbass.

What you wrote above totally ignores his accomplishments, which is foolish.

 

[demlion]

What you wrote above totally ignores his accomplishments, which is foolish.

Despite those accomplishments and his alleged brilliance, including all that money, he has handed the fans of other conferences a gift....the B1G champ is not presumed to be an elite team any longer.

That, and his enabling, silent assent to Nassar's crimes, make him unfit.

 

[Pardlion]

Over on Rivals' Cal Board (which is a subscription board), the posters are talking about how the Pac has sucked this bowl season, how the B1G has pwned this bowl season, and about how the B1G got left out of the playoff. One Board member submitted a post that included the following two paragraphs:

"Jim Delaney [sic] is arguably the most powerful man in sports, so it seems he isn't going to take his conference being left out of the playoff after an 8-0 (or even 7-1) bowl record lightly, and will be a driving force to push for playoff expansion.

He knows being left out hurts the prestige of his conference, and ultimately that translates to dollars he doesn't want his schools to miss out on. Unlike [Pac-12 Commissioner] Larry Scott, he will doggedly fight to make his conference #1 in the country and won't rest until it is, and even then, he'll try extending his lead."

I responded by noting that Delany is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and far from universally loved in the B1G. Another poster then asked "Why is Delany not smart?"

My impulse was to simply note that he had: (1) taken a very hostile attitude towards PSU in the wake of the Sandusky fiasco, even after many of the NCAA sanctions had been walked back; and (2) made some incredibly unfortunate statements indicating a marked favoritism towards tOSU and UM, but I thought there must be more to it.

Help me out here. Why do you consider Delany to be a less than stellar B1G Commissioner? Or if you believe he IS pretty good, please tell me why as well. I want to be able to provide a fuller response to this question on the Cal Board.

Most sports guys aren’t smart. They just aren’t. They’re usually athletes who had somewhere between zero and a little success, liked the idea of business, but weren’t smart enough to be an investment banker or lawyer or something like that.

I don’t know if Delany is more or less dumb than the usual sports guy. Yeah, the big ten is generally successful, but could it have been more successful under different leadership? Could the television and sponsorship deals be better than they are? Could graduation rates and post graduation success be better? Idk.

He certainly looks like a biased dumbass having pushed for OSU over the conference champion last year, having them get blown out, and then getting skunked this year.

 

[demlion]

So, y'all think that Delany is biased on behalf of OSU and Michigan? Well, unlike y'all who are privy to the meetings that take palace of have discussed matter with the Amoeba himself, I can't say for sure. But you'd think that the other members of the conference would be aware of this and that some might even not like it. And, while I'm not good at higher math, last time I checked twelve was greater than two. So, I'd like to think that if at least one president of a school other than Michigan or OSU, maybe even Indiana Fats himself, were displeased with the favors showered on the so-called Big 2, he or she would rally the others to insure fairness.

But it hasn't happened. So,when all is said and done, it ain't Dealny's fault, it's that of the people who ratify his compensation.

Art, they were presumably aware of the Big 2 for the entire tenure of Woody and Bo, and they never did anything about it. You give them too much credit.