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Kevin (Tim “Asshat” Racadb) Warren (ex-B1G Commissioner)

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AuTX Buckeye said:
I know this guys is getting the blame... but was it his decision alone to cancel the season or is he just the Commish taking the heat for the 14 school presidents that voted and are the real power
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True dat. But I still believe strongly that it was important not to be the first conference to bail.

But there is another question I am curious about.

Why not let the schools who want to play, play. Be that 4 or 8 or however many. Play each other twice if need be. The Presidents desperately want it not to be known how they voted. (I would assume that any liability lies ultimately with the schools rather than the conference.)

There were three questions that Warren flat stonewalled on BTN:

1. How individual schools voted.
2. Could teams play outside the conference.
3. Would he let his son play.
 
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Oh8ch said:
True dat. But I still believe strongly that it was important not to be the first conference to bail.

But there is another question I am curious about.

Why not let the schools who want to play, play. Be that 4 or 8 or however many. Play each other twice if need be. The Presidents desperately want it not to be known how they voted. (I would assume that any liability lies ultimately with the schools rather than the conference.)

There were three questions that Warren flat stonewalled on BTN:

1. How individual schools voted.
2. Could teams play outside the conference.
3. Would he let his son play.
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there’s a twitter I posted in the other thread on this that basically said
“some of the teams that wanted to play had shitty testing and couldn’t do the things necessary to keep everyone safe sooo no one played”
 
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NOT GREAT! I have a hard time being too tough on people for being bad at their job given that I am, for the most part, bad at my job. I'm also fairly lenient and forgiving when people take on new jobs they've never done before.

But unfortunately for Kevin Warren, that's not gonna absolve the Big Ten's newest commissioner here, because my guy hasn't exactly been the shining light of leadership folks need during this time.

Here is what Warren should have done: Explain the league’s medical reasoning, including the fear that athletes who test positive will have long-term heart issues and that country’s poor testing situation does not allow for rapid results on the morning of a game.

He should have explained the Big Ten’s stance that with Sept. 3-5 openers, the league either had to start allowing full-contact practices or pull the plug on the season. Holding off on a decision was just delaying the inevitable and putting older coaches at risk.

He should have taken a hard line on dissenters.

He should have painted the Big Ten as the conference that cares the most about the well-being of the athletes and the least about recouping football revenue. That would have been a powerful message to the parents of recruits.

Opportunity missed.

The decision to move to spring may even turn out to be the correct one, but that still wouldn't make Warren's handling of this situation any less disastrous.

Let's recap: instead of hopping out in front of this, controlling the narrative, uniting voices and doing his best to sell his plan to the masses, Warren dropped the fury-inducing news through a press release and did one public appearance with the state media and still somehow felt the need to sidestep their softball questions.

As a result, he's got coaches taking to social media to dunk on him, players parents writing open letters in an attempt to get some sort of answers, and the most prominent player in the conference openly petitioning him to change his mind – and collecting hundreds of thousands of signatures in the process.

Not a shining start to his tenure!

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...-plan-for-the-fall-and-a-the-saliva-test-is-a
 
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ScriptOhio said:
NOT GREAT! I have a hard time being too tough on people for being bad at their job given that I am, for the most part, bad at my job. I'm also fairly lenient and forgiving when people take on new jobs they've never done before.

But unfortunately for Kevin Warren, that's not gonna absolve the Big Ten's newest commissioner here, because my guy hasn't exactly been the shining light of leadership folks need during this time.

Here is what Warren should have done: Explain the league’s medical reasoning, including the fear that athletes who test positive will have long-term heart issues and that country’s poor testing situation does not allow for rapid results on the morning of a game.

He should have explained the Big Ten’s stance that with Sept. 3-5 openers, the league either had to start allowing full-contact practices or pull the plug on the season. Holding off on a decision was just delaying the inevitable and putting older coaches at risk.

He should have taken a hard line on dissenters.

He should have painted the Big Ten as the conference that cares the most about the well-being of the athletes and the least about recouping football revenue. That would have been a powerful message to the parents of recruits.

Opportunity missed.

The decision to move to spring may even turn out to be the correct one, but that still wouldn't make Warren's handling of this situation any less disastrous.

Let's recap: instead of hopping out in front of this, controlling the narrative, uniting voices and doing his best to sell his plan to the masses, Warren dropped the fury-inducing news through a press release and did one public appearance with the state media and still somehow felt the need to sidestep their softball questions.

As a result, he's got coaches taking to social media to dunk on him, players parents writing open letters in an attempt to get some sort of answers, and the most prominent player in the conference openly petitioning him to change his mind – and collecting hundreds of thousands of signatures in the process.

Not a shining start to his tenure!

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/skul...-plan-for-the-fall-and-a-the-saliva-test-is-a
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Interesting piece, but I can't believe anyone is taking the Spring football thing seriously. They are not going to play two seasons in 2021 regardless of the Covid situation.
 
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A week ago, the Big Ten canceled fall football, and Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren hasn’t said much since.
He needs to start talking. . . .

But back to the Warren Plan:

• Tuesday: Hold 90-minute Zoom calls with the football players and parents of all seven teams in the Big Ten East. That’s 10 1/2 hours, so start early. Or maybe only give Rutgers 60 minutes, and that would mean a little more time for lunch. . . .
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https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2020/08/big-ten-commissioner-kevin-warren-needs-to-start-talking.html
 
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Current look in on Kevin Warren this morning....
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You, know, I might even give him a pass had he NOT stated he was comfortable with his own son playing in the $EC 3 days before shitting on 1,600 or so player’s dreams in the B1G with the arrogance that he avoided questions about it. Fuck him. Fire his ass.
 
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