The Blue Board

Delaney is a douche overall, but a competent one. Holding up the playoffs sucks, but I understand why he's fighting for some of the things that benefit our conference (Rose Bowl, homefield, etc.) He also favors the "moneymakers" in the conference (UM and OSU), so MSU fans hate him for that. To his credit, I think he has handled the conference expansion thing very well. Nebraska is a great addition and the new conference alignment makes for some great competition.

He is doing what was best for his conference. He seems to at the very least try to make sure his conference gets it's way. He brought his conference to have a CC game. He took his conference to have BTN which assured that the conference woud make top four money at least. The playoffs didn't benefit his conference. Taking out the Rose Bowl would not help his conference. He fights for his conference and doesn't care about the others. How is he a bad commish again? Slive does pretty much the same for us.

Exactly. No commissioner is perfect. But overall, he's done a great job. As far as resisting a playoff is concerned, the B10 has done very well under the BCS system. Not in terms of nattys, but in terms of access to BCS bowls and money. It's certainly not obvious we would have done better under a playoff system. Now if we could just get him to ditch the awful B1G logo and hokey division names. smh

I can't really question him. In 2011 each school got 24.2M

I agree. The BTN and the new alignment are awesome... except for the logo and division names. I would have much preferred to have North and South. Only Wisconsin would be geographically inconsistent, but who cares?

If you don't like the Big10 you probably won't like Delaney. But the truth of the matter is that he has consistently kept the Big10 in the forefront when it comes to making money for the conference. The conference is rock solid financially and that lends itself to being able to go out and expand with a team like Nebraska. Look at the rest of the expansion picture... it really isn't that impressive. The last two times the Big10 has expanded it has picked up PSU and Nebraska. Those are homerun football additions. The Big10 network has been a complete success and has been the model for other conferences. People forget that the Big10 actually pushed for and was the first to implement the official review in Major College football. Every fan wants a playoff, but you have to remember that the commissioner of a league has to do what's in the best interest for the financial stability of the league... You better believe that his voice will be heard when it comes to ironing out the details of College Football's changes to the postseason.

The only complaint I have (besides him generally coming off as abrasive)-- he didn't fight for home field advantage or a mid-western site for play-off games.

Agreed. Many think that he's a jerk, but he's OUR jerk. Many consider him to the be most powerful man in college athletics.

http://www.athlonsports.com/college-football/jim-delany-big-ten

He's about 3 steps ahead of everyone else in CFB. He's also a giant douche about it, but he's fantastic at his job of keeping the Big Ten making as much money as possible.

I agree on Legends and Leaders, but I think moving The Game was a head fake. They got us so focused on complaining about that, we stopped complaining about UM and OSU ending up in opposite divisions. Delany is always two steps ahead.

Delaney is great for the Big Ten. The only problem I have with him is that he seems to favor the "big" schools in the conference ahead of the majority of the schools--not exactly great for Iowa all the time. I would also note that the things he's done that often seem the most "backward" turn out to be some of the most foresightful things that he does.