jim-delany Stories - Bucky's 5th Quarter
A Playoff Is Coming
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: the SEC has won the current BCS system. After Auburn got left out of the title game 2004, SEC partisans relentlessly pushed the idea that it was ludicrous to exclude the champion from the nation's best conference if it was one of the worthy...
Big Ten and Pac-12 Agree to Elaborate Cash Grab
Say you're a conference commissioner who has a network that could use some more quality inventory. The most obvious avenue you can take is expanding your league, but geography, tradition, and change-averse university presidents get in the way of that. What can you do to make it so that you don't...
Bret Bielema Has Sand In His Pants, And Wants Jim Delany To Know About It
Place: Big Ten Headquarters, Park Ridge, Ill. It is the dark of winter, and the wind is howling off of Lake Michigan. It is as cold and lifeless as Michael Jackson, and Commissioner Delany finds himself in a foul mood. Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez has requested a meeting on some irregularities, and...
John Marinatto Is The Greeter In Football Purgatory
The Big East has invited five teams to join the conference. Houston, San Diego State, Boise State, Central Florida, and SMU. It appears that all five will join. It also appears that they all have very flawed logic. I know this because they all looked at this and thought it was a good idea. You...
ACC goes to 14 (16?); Pac-12 Adds Oklahoma, Okie State ... and Texas??? Will Notre Dame go B1G?
The next 24 to 48 hours could be the most volatile period in the history of college football off the field. Yesterday, reports emerged that Pitt and Syracuse were ready to join the ACC. At first, it sounded like the ACC was ready to invite Texas and Notre Dame to join as non-football members. The...
The Georgia Bulldogs, the Boise State Broncos, "The Godfather, Part II," and What Makes Life Worth Living: Five Questions for OBNUG
As you know, I answered some questions for Kevan over at OBNUG, while also entering into an agreement---not a wager, I tell you!---that has earned me some criticism in certain circles. In any case, the Labor Day weekend edition of "Too Much Information" has been bumped to mid-day, in order for me...
Big Ten Has No Current Plans To Expand
Still think we are all headed towards conference realignment Armageddon and four, 16-team superconferences? Well if you are waiting for Texas A&M-to-SEC to set off a seismic shift in the college football landscape that includes the Big Ten ballooning to 14 or 16 teams, you may be waiting for...
Conference Realignment Rumors: No Room At The Big Ten Inn
If the conference apocalypse is finally upon us and the Aggies will soon usher in the era of the 16-team super conference, it doesn't look like the Big Ten will be joining the ranks of the super-sized. At least not right away. This is according to Chicago Tribune sportswriter Teddy Greenstein, who...
Summer of Tom
I make no bones about my respect for Tom Osborne. That, in and of itself, is a post worthy for if/when he retires and if/when Paul Meyers, Trev Alberts, and NOT Dave Rimington takes over the helm. (FWIW, my money is on Meyers) The man is a legendary coach, a visionary as A.D., blah blah blah, but...
Missouri Loves Company: Why the Big 12's Tigers Will Not be Asked to Join the SEC
Yesterday, when I saw that fans of the Texas A&M Aggies were pushing the Missouri Tigers as possible partners to join them in the 14-member SEC, I posted a fanshot whose purpose was to mock the Kentucky Wildcats, who also are pigskin underachievers from a border state that sent soldiers to both...
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