Delany: No regrets about adding Rutgers

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Water is wet, does a bear shit in the woods, etc. Just thought it relevant for anyone here harboring any remote hopes we could ever jettison this embarrassment from our conference. 

Quotes so quintessentially Delany you'd identify the source if I posted them here with no context:

Delany, in his first public comments on Rutgers since the university began investigating coach Kyle Flood in August, told the Tribune the Big Ten does not regret adding Rutgers. As Delany noted, the Rutgers/Maryland expansion fulfilled a "strategic objective" to penetrate several giant East Coast markets.

"It might be a fun read that the Big Ten has remorse, but it's somewhat irrelevant," Delany said. "I can't name an institution during my (26-year) tenure that has not had a serious personnel or ethical issue at one point. These are high-profile situations with lots of exposure. I wish we never had any of it at our schools, but I'm realistic."

 

Article may trick you into thinking it's paywalled, but it's not. Give link a few tries. Also, article is from yesterday, but site search turned up nothing.

 

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Wolverine Devotee

September 25th, 2015 at 11:37 AM ^

Might be moot as the B1G is eventually going to close up the space on the G and become the B16.

Actually, this division stuff can end now. The NCAA has deregulated conference championship games.

You don't even need divisions anymore. It can just be the top-2 two teams in the conference playing for the title in a title game. 

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Alton

September 25th, 2015 at 11:45 AM ^

The Big Ten will not expand until there are 2 teams that (a) want to join the conferrence, and  (b) will increase conference income enough to compensate for the extra 2 teams in the distribution.  In other words, the 2 teams have to bring in more money than the current average Big Ten team does.

Those 2 teams do not exist, and will not exist for the forseeable future.

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Alton

September 25th, 2015 at 11:58 AM ^

Well...fair point, but they were added for some reason, right?  Obviously they both met "a" and somebody who has access to the numbers managed to convice a bunch of other people that they met "b" as well.  It's not like they would have taken Cincinnati or Northern Illinois.

But now with the ACC locking down their conference with a grant-of-rights, and the SEC doing the same, that cuts them off.  I suppose a breakup of the Big 12 might change the current situation, but really nothing short of that--and any Big 12 team will come with at least some baggage, either academically (everybody but Iowa State, Kansas and Texas), financially (Iowa State and Kansas) or otherwise (Texas).

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Mr Miggle

September 25th, 2015 at 12:55 PM ^

They would each almost surely add much less than the current market divided by 14. It's the opposite of Rutgers and Maryland in that regard. UConn is also not in the AAU. It's unlikely they'd even be seriously looked at. Besides, aren't those two even worse in football?

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drzoidburg

September 25th, 2015 at 8:47 PM ^

That would be funny if the texas conference tried that. It would backfire tremendously when everyone realized the nonsense of a CCG in a conference where all teams play each other. Imagine this scenario: TCU 9-0 oklahoma 6-3 baylor 6-3 Now how in the world can anyone defend a CCG as being necessary or even legit? If you mean a 16 team one division conference, that actually would be an improvement, as long as the new teams are decent and MSU OSU are kept annually. We could stop pretending indiana rutgers maryland are "rivals" and play the other 13 teams every other year My only concern would be if there's say 5x 7-2 teams tied, who goes to the CCG?

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Maizen

September 25th, 2015 at 11:13 AM ^

Delany saying he doesn't regret adding Rutgers to the B1G is the equivalent of your best friend in college saying he doesn't regret sleeping with that fat girl who has been eyeing him for 3 months. He'll say "doesn't matter had sex" when in reality not only does he have to deal with the shame of sleeping with her, but that she also gave him crabs.

Just a bad situation all around.

Yes, in my own weird way I'm saying Rutgers gave the B1G crabs.

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AC1997

September 25th, 2015 at 11:14 AM ^

"We don't regret the decision, however, we need to work with Rutgers to overcome some of these on and off field issues to meet the high standards of the conference. Issues come up everywhere but it is how you respond to the issues that defines your character."

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mGrowOld

September 25th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^

Delany said he also had no regrets over buying a Pontiac Aztek, making a Saltwater Crocodile his family's household pet, buying Enron stock or smashing his balls repeatidly with a lemon-soaked, ball peen hammer covered in ants.

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LSAClassOf2000

September 25th, 2015 at 12:10 PM ^

Ah, the Aztek, the only vehicle which had a dealer demo that went like this:

*salesperson opens rear passenger door, throws loaf of bread in Aztek*

*waits for a minute with perplexed customer*

*kicks wheel* GOD DAMN TOASTER! IT NEVER WORKS!

Also, do we dare speculate that anyone - perhaps even Delany - who may have bought Enron stock did exactly that last thing you list when they found out how much it was worth?

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Moonlight Graham

September 25th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^

added and then also snagging Pitt and Syracuse before the ACC did. Still a PURE Great Lakes/Great Plains footprint, amazing for basketball and non-rev sports, Missouri-Nebraska, Mizzou-Illinois, Pitt-Penn State, not to mention all the IN-CONFERENCE rivalries with ND (Purdue, MSU, Michigan, Penn State). 

I know the guy couldn't wave magic wand and make all that happen but with the possible exception of Notre Dame, he didnt' even try and saw those east-coast metro areas as better options. 

If I met Brady Hoke in person I'd be cordial and I imagine quite friendly. if I saw Dave Brandon I wouldn't be very friendly but remain polite. If I met Delaney I would flat out call him an idiot to his face. 

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nappa18

September 25th, 2015 at 11:22 AM ^

That Delaney is Brandon s brother by another mother? Or they just read the same book of marketing cliches? Marketing is all cliches all the time: strategic objectives, penetrate, markets....ugh!!!

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BlueCube

September 25th, 2015 at 11:34 AM ^

He isn't going to trash a team who is in the league before they are gone. He would be a bigger imbecile to to so. That being said, you kick out Rutgers and you look like you think some minor issues are tak ed n more serious than child molestation. Nice to act all high and mighty but he said what should be said.

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Michwolverinefreak

September 25th, 2015 at 11:41 AM ^

"Yeah, I regret letting Rutgers into our league. They provide next to nothing and their teams are talentless. Kyle Flood sucks, and I can't believe hes not getting fired."

Actually, I like that story. 

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smwilliams

September 25th, 2015 at 11:49 AM ^

What's not in the article is that right after his comments, Delany shouted out YOLO and downed 3 shots of Fireball before lighting up his vape and hopping in the sweet Mustang that his parents bought for his 18th birthday.

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