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Big Ten Commissioner Jim .. umm .. Delany (official thread)

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does this look like somebody who's senile?
bugger off, pillock

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Big 10 commish has some explaining to do

July 31, 2007
BY TEDDY GREENSTEIN
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
CHICAGO - The sequel - to the sequel - of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" should star Jim Delany.

We all know what the Big Ten commissioner has been up to - and it's not building sand castles or barbecuing shrimp. Delany has been oblivious to the calendar, generating enough headlines and controversy in the off-season to almost make you wonder: Has he become the Gary Sheffield of college football?

Delany will open the Big Ten's annual media days on Tuesday with an hour-long Q&A session. That might not even be enough time for him to address all the serious and goofy battles he has waged since Florida chomped Ohio State in the BCS title game.
In February, Delany responded to a back-of-the-section Chicago Sun-Times story about recruiting by firing off a letter that was posted on the Big Ten's Web site. The gist: SEC schools out-recruit the Big Ten because they have lower admissions standards.

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Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany (official thread)

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BCS commissioner plans on staying put Key officials leaving, but Jim Delany in talks for contract extension
By Teddy Greenstein
Chicago Tribune

Published on Wednesday, Jul 02, 2008
BCS officials have been blasted so hard over the years, they should have invested in earplugs.
Now they might want to make a new purchase ? name tags.
Athletic Director Kevin White has left Bowl Championship Series partner Notre Dame for Duke. Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese will step down in June 2009. Tom Hansen will retire as the Pacific 10 commissioner in July 2009.
That's three of the BCS' seven key figures either gone or with one loafer out the door.
''We won't recognize anyone at the next meeting,'' Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany joked.
Speaking of Delany, how much longer will he continue? Is he considering riding off with Hansen and Tranghese?
The answer is no.
Delany is in talks with conference officials about a contract extension that could take him through 2013. His current deal expires in 2010, so there's no great urgency.
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Delany has been extended through 2013.

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Delany receives Big Ten extension

PARK RIDGE, Ill. (AP) -- Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany has agreed to a contract extension through June 2013.

Delany has led the Big Ten since July 1989. During that time, the Big Ten expanded to 11 members with the addition of Penn State in 1991. The conference was also a pioneer in the development of instant replay for college football and last year launched its own TV network.

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Big Ten commish cries bias by CBS, ESPN

By SHANNON SHELTON ? FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER ? April 5, 2009

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany agreed with the majority of national analysts that the Big East was the best conference in basketball in 2008-09.
Acknowledging that, however, didn?t justify downgrading the Big Ten, and treating it as it belonged in a ?second-tier? category, Delany said on Sunday.
?Whoever the basketball analysts are, they need to look at the record,? he said. ?Maybe we?re just lacking basketball acumen by some of the leading talking heads.?
On Saturday night, Delany sat a few rows behind the Michigan State bench, and watched as the Spartans easily dispatched another No. 1 seed from the Big East ? Connecticut ? less than a week after doing the same to Louisville.
MSU?s victory gave Delany the opportunity to remind observers how often Big Ten teams have advanced to a Final Four and a national championship game. Since 2000, the Big Ten has sent five different teams to a Final Four (MSU, Ohio State, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana), a record matched only by the Big East. The Big Ten is also second behind the Atlantic Coast Conference in Final Four appearances in the same period ? the Big Ten has eight and the ACC has nine.
Delany stood by his belief that 7-8 Big Ten teams deserved to make the NCAA tournament field and noted that the one that didn?t get in, Penn State, won the NIT.

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Published Wednesday April 20, 2011
ATHLETICS
Q&A with Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany
By Dirk Chatelain
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

Few major issues in college athletics pass through the news cycle without a quote from Jim Delany. Whether it's a potential college football playoff or an NCAA ruling on the Heisman Trophy winner's eligibility, the Big Ten commissioner carries clout.

But the past year, perhaps no school has been more important to Delany than Nebraska. The Huskers enter the Big Ten in July, and Delany receives questions all the time about the Big Ten's new sibling. He's sure to receive even more when he and Urban Meyer headline the 57th annual B'nai B'rith Charity Sports Banquet on May 4 at the Qwest Center.

One of the most powerful men in the business, Delany is also one of the busiest. But earlier this week, he conducted a one-on-one interview with The World-Herald, with topics ranging from the Fiesta Bowl to Big 12 media rights, from Big Ten hockey to Jim Tressel. Let's start, of course, with Nebraska.

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http://www.omaha.com/article/20110420/BIGRED/704219837
 
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Delany discusses changing bowl landscape
May, 15, 2012
By Adam Rittenberg | ESPN.com

CHICAGO -- Big Ten teams will be playing fewer bowl games in the future. And they'll likely be playing them in different locations.

It's all part of a shifting bowl landscape that Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany discussed Tuesday at the league's spring meetings. Delany said there's a "very strong consensus" among the league's athletic directors that the bowl-eligibility requirement should increase from six wins to seven wins, a sentiment that's echoed nationally.

"We think it's better for our programs, better for our fans and better for the bowl system for us to have a winning season in order to qualify," Delany said. "... For us, it means redefining a successful year at 7-5 from the standpoint of a bowl season. We argued for 6-6. We've experienced 6-6. Now we're suggesting that it's in our best interest, the bowls' best interest as well as the other conferences that might benefit by these open slots to look at a 7-5 standard."

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http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post?id=61351

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRGQspw3gUk&feature=plcp"]Jim Delany On Big Ten Spring Meetings - YouTube[/ame]
 
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BigWoof31;2180836; said:
What the shit?
Jim Delany wants the power to fire B1G Coaches?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/players/jim-delany-wants-the-power-to-fire-coaches/30771


Obviously brought about by the Penn State scandal, but this is a bit much.
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Yeah, not gonna happen.

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Big Ten officials are still in the early stages of debating how to handle fallout from the scandal. Among other ideas, the league?s presidents and chancellors could consider removing Penn State from the conference, one Big Ten leader told The Chronicle.


The Big Ten Conference Handbook, which governs the league?s operations, does not contain language addressing a situation as egregious as what happened at Penn State.
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First, I would love to be privvy to the meeting of presidents and chancellors when discussing State Penn's future in the Big Ten.

Second, I would be more disturbed if the Big Ten Conference Handbook (or NCAA Handbook, or any handbook) actually had language addressing harboring a pedophile for decades and having the people in positions of power cover-up for said pedophile. Handbooks are meant to give guidelines on basic, common sense, human decency.
 
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Second, I would be more disturbed if the Big Ten Conference Handbook (or NCAA Handbook, or any handbook) actually had language addressing harboring a pedophile for decades and having the people in positions of power cover-up for said pedophile. Handbooks are meant to give guidelines on basic, common sense, human decency.
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I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.
 
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