Post by CrimsonPhantom on Jun 7, 2012 21:16:56 GMT -7
While college football continues to squabble over how to best exploit its postseason, Jim Delany stays focused on his empire. He seems truly disinterested in talking about playoffs.
Sure, the B1G commissioner catches grief from all directions for presenting as a haughty, unsympathetic codger. He might be the biggest obstacle between making the leap toward a college football championship that makes sense from the over-thought exercise in overt corruption that the BCS currently is.
Delany is an accidental villain who refuses to be swept up or swayed by the squabble. He didn't create his conference or the bowl system. He inherited both, and he tinkers with both to his liking with only one intent: Equipping his conference with greater reach and power.
However cold he may be, Delany is laser-focused exclusively on the long term, which annoys virtually everybody in our short-term world. He deploys focus groups and delegates subordinates for the cosmetic stuff unrelated to his mission, like hyphenating trophy names nobody will remember or deciding which school is a Legend and which is a Leader.
That's unimportant stuff for another department and another guy. It's short-term and superficial. All Delany is concerned with is making B1G richer and more dominant, and if any idea or initiative doesn't satisfy that singular goal, he just isn't interested. He doesn't need to be interested.
It's not just the postseason that's under siege; it's the entire framework of college football itself. While other conferences were trying to strengthen themselves with numbers, Delany pulled in one school, Nebraska.
Then he called Larry Scott, whom he saw lapping the rest of the field by way of the sincerest form of flattery - to Delany.
Last summer during Expansion Fever, the PAC commissioner pulled off a media deal that would make Delany blush is he were capable of showing human emotion: He turned the PAC from a conference apathetic about its television contracts into a media powerhouse.
Scott locked up the distribution channels as well as competitors ESPN and Fox without dispensing of a single ownership share. Delany had given 51% to Fox to cement satellite business on standard tiers across American which was necessary to create a national channel. He required a partner to punch through the barrier.
That set the stage for every other conference to pile in through that hole in the wall he created. Only Scott stepped right through it.
Continue Reading- www.elevenwarriors.com/2012/06/11655/b1ggie-pac
Sure, the B1G commissioner catches grief from all directions for presenting as a haughty, unsympathetic codger. He might be the biggest obstacle between making the leap toward a college football championship that makes sense from the over-thought exercise in overt corruption that the BCS currently is.
Delany is an accidental villain who refuses to be swept up or swayed by the squabble. He didn't create his conference or the bowl system. He inherited both, and he tinkers with both to his liking with only one intent: Equipping his conference with greater reach and power.
However cold he may be, Delany is laser-focused exclusively on the long term, which annoys virtually everybody in our short-term world. He deploys focus groups and delegates subordinates for the cosmetic stuff unrelated to his mission, like hyphenating trophy names nobody will remember or deciding which school is a Legend and which is a Leader.
That's unimportant stuff for another department and another guy. It's short-term and superficial. All Delany is concerned with is making B1G richer and more dominant, and if any idea or initiative doesn't satisfy that singular goal, he just isn't interested. He doesn't need to be interested.
It's not just the postseason that's under siege; it's the entire framework of college football itself. While other conferences were trying to strengthen themselves with numbers, Delany pulled in one school, Nebraska.
Then he called Larry Scott, whom he saw lapping the rest of the field by way of the sincerest form of flattery - to Delany.
Last summer during Expansion Fever, the PAC commissioner pulled off a media deal that would make Delany blush is he were capable of showing human emotion: He turned the PAC from a conference apathetic about its television contracts into a media powerhouse.
Scott locked up the distribution channels as well as competitors ESPN and Fox without dispensing of a single ownership share. Delany had given 51% to Fox to cement satellite business on standard tiers across American which was necessary to create a national channel. He required a partner to punch through the barrier.
That set the stage for every other conference to pile in through that hole in the wall he created. Only Scott stepped right through it.
Continue Reading- www.elevenwarriors.com/2012/06/11655/b1ggie-pac