[NU Sports] Delaney/Delany ...

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/andy_staples/12/08/jim-delany-bcs-change/index.html?sct=cf_t11_a2


Interesting article on everyone's favorite (except for me) commish ... it allows me to link my embarassment joke-hatred of Delaney for the silly division names with legitimate real-anger at him for being the bedrock to prop up this B(C)S sham. Although if he sticks to his word and pulls the league out if the rest go with the plus-one model, then maybe I will gain some respect for Delany again.

Look, I respect being the lone man fighting against the tide ... heck, I relish doing it every year here as everyone tells me that the B(C)S is not so bad and to just accept the current mess ... that's fine. My problem is that he's doing so with BS reasons about the extra game toll and the Rose Bowl tradition. If he really cared about the bowl tradition, he'd pull out now and sign a deal with the Pac 12 to have the league champs meet in Pasadena every year. But the last decade of Rose Bowls have seen teams like Texas, TCU, Miami, UNL (pre-Big Ten) and Oklahoma playing in it. The number of times it has matched up the true Pac 10 and Big Ten champ has dwindled to three in the last decade. So it's a load of hooey. He's stubbornly supporting this B(C)S sham that regularly screws the Big Ten (someone needs to investigate those computer systems) on a foundation of delusions.

But anyway, it's an interesting look at Delaney's (now) solo crusade ... maybe if instead of "plus one" we came up with some different name for it like the "Montgomery Burns Awards for Excellence in the Category of Excellence Bowl Series for Legendary Leaders and Leaders who follow Legends" he would like it??? :)

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-SjT
 
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