In Defense of Delany
I know I will get neg banged, but what the hell...
I just saw that HULU launched their new on-line TV streaming service and BTN was included in it (with SEC Network as the only conference TV stations offered on basic service). This means most of the new on-line only streaming services (like PSVue) are all offering BTN as part of their basic bundle.
I know Brian and many others have criticized "short-term" thinking about cable bundles and adding Rutgers, but as you can plainly see, bundling TV channels is not going away any time soon and the fact that BTN is part of a basic package in the biggest media market in the country (and where many of the decision makers for these new streaming services live), I think has a huge impact on how BTN is being included on every one of these new streaming services.
I want to give Delaney a credit where it is due. Adding Rutgers was a terrible decision competition wise, but it is working out pretty well for media expansion.
The addition of Rutgers to the B1G is, always has been, and always will be indefensible.
ACC Network is partnered with ESPN and not included. It is not a given.
It is partnered with ESPN, not owned by ESPN. ACC Network is owned by Raycom Media.
Espn owns 100% of the new ACC network. It doesn't launch until 2019 tho. That's why it's not there.
too many of those shitty decisions and non-decisions to give him any credit that you are attempting to provide him.
The full impact of adding Rutgers and Maryland to BIG will take years to be realized. There will be some degree of self-fullfilling prophecy as these two programs are getting financial help from BTN and this should help them with improving their programs.
It is irresponsible to ignore the potential importance of BTN to some of the original BIG schools. States are facing financial difficulty and the resources available to non-revenue sports may be cut. For example, look at Purdue. The money generated by BTN is very important to them. Without the BTN money many of the BIG schools would have less resourcces to work with affecting the overall competitiveness of the BIG. UM and OSU could have survived without BTN, but the level of competition in BIG would have suffered.
BTN money may end being even more important given the difficulties of ESPN and other networks. The money paid by them to broadcast BIG games may go down.
Was a very bad decision. But it shouldn't define his commissionership in the Big Ten. And neither should giving MSU two home games against us in a row (not like having the Big House would've helped against Sparty with THOSE teams playing for us). I personally had an indifferent or even positive opinion about him, or at least I did before his lukewarm endorsement of Harbaugh's satellite camps. But now the guy seems like a lame duck at this point and doesn't want to do what it takes to get on the level of the SEC or ACC competitively in the revenue sports. To be fair, the conference he inherited in 1989 was just as much a mess in that regard. Maybe it's just too uphill a battle demographically for a Upper Midwest program outside of OSU football to win the national championship aside from some miracle team once in a generation like 1997 Michigan
We were five points away from an undefeated season this past year. But you're right, winning a national championship is impossible.
The fact that the B1G has only a couple teams that can challenge for a national championship makes us just like basically every other conference. In the past 55 years, no conference other than the SEC has had more than three different teams win championships:
- B1G (Michigan, Ohio State)
- ACC (Clemson, Florida State)
- Big 12 (Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska)
- Pac 12 (USC, Washington)
If you want to count championships that current conference members won before joining the conference, you can give Nebraska and Penn State to the B1G, Miami and Pitt to the ACC, and Colorado to the Pac 12. But the point still stands - the fact that the vast majority of the conference isn't contending for a national championship isn't unique to the B1G.
It would have been nice if he managed to put in even half the energy to defending Harbaugh's satellite camps that he did to publicly lobby to get Tressel's cheaters to play in the Sugar Bowl.
but not many...
Thank you for some original thought and not just parroting the occasional erroneous opinions of the originator of the blog.
As far as I know, point totals on this blog are not transferrable into any useful or meaningful currency, so I would not be too concerned about potential criticisms.
not for the opinion itself (which is 100% wrong) but to offset the "Disagree with Brian and you are wrong 100% of the time" crowd that will neg the crap out of you forthwith.
Comedian/Masturbator
Who is super awesome and needs no defending. Sixty-one yrs old, kapow!
Can't post pics, thanks Gatesware.
I would stay up late enough to see her show off her tits in the beginning of China Beach every week.
...result of Buttgers joining the B1G was that it kinda/sorta eliminated the idiotic Heroes/Legendary divisions.
God, I hated those.
In defense of the officials of last year's Michigan/OSU game...........
at my Hulu app on my TV and didn't see the BTN. What gives?
You need to subscribe to the Hulu Live TV.
Gameboy misses the point. Technology is allowing more accurate metering of TV watching. You can't argue so easily that you deserve $X per subscriber when there's better data about how many people are actually watching. Getting on platforms is now easier, but you won't automatically get paid for it anymore unless people actually watch. The proof is in ESPN's cuts.
of Jim Delaamely
Like the silver lining, but i'm not biting; Screw Delany, Screw him to death