Jim Delany

Jim Delany
James Edward Delanyis the current commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, a role in which he has served since 1989. He is regarded among college athletics as being influential in the creation of the Bowl Championship Series and its maintenance...
bowl bowls nature process selection
The bowls know what they know. And the selection process is sacrosanct. We may get disappointed, but that is the nature of the bowl system.
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I don't think we'd ever treat any school like we were treated at Ohio State,'' Carr said.
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It was an effective p.r. effort by the Cowen group, I don't think there's any doubt about that. All things being equal, we wouldn't have gone to a fifth bowl. ... Although we were moving in an evolutionary way toward more inclusion, whether we would have gotten to this point, I doubt it. I think we were pushed to this point.
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I would stay home and spend that money on your programs,
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If you disagree with it, that's your right. It's your choice. It's OK, ... But we have a lot of people coming to our games. We've got a lot of people watching our games (on TV). ... Why would we change what we're doing?
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To have Penn State back in the mainstream is a very good thing, not just for the Big Ten but for all of college football.
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We have healthier programs in the middle than we've ever had. Part of that is based on more television opportunities for more people and more bowl opportunities for more people.