The alliance between the Big 10, ACC, and Pac-12 means the Power Five just became the Power Four. As a person who has sat in meetings among administrators and bureaucrats in a variety of field – media, sports, and health care among them – I am in a rare position to translate nonsensical gobbledegook into what […]
Right of the heels of yesterday’s Ivy League announcement that there will be no fall sports for 2020, the Big 10 has announced it will scale back fall schedules to include only conference games. This is a big deal for all Big 10 athletes and coaches, but is of massive importance for football programs that feed the […]
The Big 10 has 14 member universities who promise to help students become community and corporate leaders, but the conference will again turn to a graduate of a non-member school to lead it. Kevin Warren will be announced this morning as the successor to Jim Delany, who is retiring after 30 years in the position. […]
Big 10 commissioner Jim Delany is in the process of receiving a $20 million bonus for his work leading the conference’s athletic departments to unprecedented profitability. That’s a lot of cash – even for a visionary who saw the road to massive earnings through launching the Big Ten Network. During a time when the debate […]
Is Indiana’s mediocrity this season because of injuries or incompetence? Is it an inability to recruit Indiana high school stars or an inability of current players to invest in the process? Is it Tom Crean as a coach, Tom Crean as a recruiter, or a series of unpleasant and unlucky circumstances? All good questions that can be […]
by Kent Sterling What was former Big 12 Commissioner Don Beebe supposed to do, let the Big 12 unravel after Texas decided to shift to the Big Ten or Pac-12? Beebe played the only card available to him, which was to allow each member school to form its own network. This wasn’t the best solution […]
by Kent Sterling After watching Kentucky jump out to a 65-11 lead over Montana State and take a 55-12 halftime lead last night against Texas-Arlington, I thought about the poor mopes in Big Blue Nation who paid to attend the games at Rupp Arena. The players for both sides wasted their time in those romps, […]
by Kent Sterling The Big Ten made a few smart calls today by announcing the conference football championship will be played in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium through 2021, and that the women’s basketball tournament will be held at Bankers Life Fieldhouse from 2017-2022. When a city has been built specifically as a host site […]
[Editor’s note – This was posted as a comment by someone identified as BIG20, and presents an interesting perspective on conference realignment. What I like best is the writing style that is sort of like listening to a guy talk sports in a bar. He argues with himself a bit, and although I don’t really […]
by Kent Sterling One thing about Jim Delany, he does not speak in code. Information is offered, and through a Monday Sudoku series of simple deductions, the truth is revealed. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter In his statement yesterday, Delany identified Association of American Universities membership, contiguous state to existing members, population, and […]