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per CBS:
It's the “what's next” that is so intriguing about Delany, who was voted the Most Influential Person in College Sports by a 12-person CBSSports.com panel of folks who work in college sports. Delany's influence is only going to increase in the near future.
There is new life in the Big Ten after Ohio State's football national championship, Michigan's hiring of Jim Harbaugh and the conference's nation-high five men's basketball Final Four trips in the past four years.
There are major Big Ten TV negotiations coming that everyone in the college sports industry will be watching -- talks that Delany says could begin this fall or winter depending on who triggers the start.
And lately, there is Delany's unconventional idea to embrace the thought of freshman ineligibility -- last used by the NCAA in 1973 -- as a way to stimulate discussion about the balance between academics and athletics given ongoing legal threats that challenge the NCAA's amateurism model.
“I think some decisions were made in the ‘70s that, in retrospect, you could argue were not healthy and wise,” Delany said. “I think changing four-year scholarships to the one-year scholarship was not wise. I think losing the $15 laundry money (for athletes) was not wise. I think you can look back and find guidance. The question is whether freshman ineligibility is too much of a change. It may well be, but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be discussed. If you say this isn't the right way to approach it, then the question is, ‘What is the right way to approach it?'”
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...commish-jim-delaney-will-only-gain-more-power
Go Gophers!!
It's the “what's next” that is so intriguing about Delany, who was voted the Most Influential Person in College Sports by a 12-person CBSSports.com panel of folks who work in college sports. Delany's influence is only going to increase in the near future.
There is new life in the Big Ten after Ohio State's football national championship, Michigan's hiring of Jim Harbaugh and the conference's nation-high five men's basketball Final Four trips in the past four years.
There are major Big Ten TV negotiations coming that everyone in the college sports industry will be watching -- talks that Delany says could begin this fall or winter depending on who triggers the start.
And lately, there is Delany's unconventional idea to embrace the thought of freshman ineligibility -- last used by the NCAA in 1973 -- as a way to stimulate discussion about the balance between academics and athletics given ongoing legal threats that challenge the NCAA's amateurism model.
“I think some decisions were made in the ‘70s that, in retrospect, you could argue were not healthy and wise,” Delany said. “I think changing four-year scholarships to the one-year scholarship was not wise. I think losing the $15 laundry money (for athletes) was not wise. I think you can look back and find guidance. The question is whether freshman ineligibility is too much of a change. It may well be, but it doesn't mean it shouldn't be discussed. If you say this isn't the right way to approach it, then the question is, ‘What is the right way to approach it?'”
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...commish-jim-delaney-will-only-gain-more-power
Go Gophers!!