Kevin (Tim “Asshat” Racadb) Warren (ex-B1G Commissioner)

[Onebuckfan]

WTF?

You wouldn’t understand these bylaws reek of academic excellence. ...they are proprietary and are protected because of national security.

 

[ScriptOhio]

If the Big Ten does not play football this fall, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is reportedly prepared to take legal action.

Yost told the Columbus Dispatch that he is ready to recommend Ohio State file a lawsuit against the Big Ten and member schools voting against a fall football season and that he believes the school has an “excellent contract claim for several tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue.”

Yost believes the Big Ten and member schools violated contracts and lacked legal authority to cancel or delay the football season.

“I think we have a cause of action,” Yost told The Dispatch. “If these negotiations (over playing football) fall apart, we will be recommending legal action to our client, Ohio State University.”

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Or we could realize that the Big Ten--of which we've been a part of for over a century and has been very good to us--held a vote, and we just happened to be on the short end of that vote, and we can subsequently sack it up and get on with our lives. We can certainly use our clout to try and reverse that vote internally, and I don't have a problem with that. What we shouldn't be doing is listening to some politician trying to push us into a scorched earth legal battle against our own conference so he can score brownie points with the leadership of his party. That is destructive, short-term thinking of the highest order.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

You care about football more than BOT and college presidents. They side with the Chinese and continent of Africa about college football. They aren’t fans probably never played and have other needs.

As much as I'd like to see Ohio State and B1G football this fall, it's crap like this that makes me OK without it because I know that all the right people will literally be suffering without their foosball. Gotta find that silver lining.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

That feels like a pretty broad stroke. Their jobs aren't focused entirely on sports.......that doesn't mean they're anti-sport nerds who don't even know what a football looks like.

 

[ShowMeBuck]

Or we could realize that the Big Ten--of which we've been a part of for over a century and has been very good to us--held a vote, and we just happened to be on the short end of that vote, and we can subsequently sack it up and get on with our lives. We can certainly use our clout to try and reverse that vote internally, and I don't have a problem with that. What we shouldn't be doing is listening to some politician trying to push us into a scorched earth legal battle against our own conference so he can score brownie points with the leadership of his party. That is destructive, short-term thinking of the highest order.

I don’t care how long and fruitful the association. The bond is only as good as the current leadership, decisions they make, the processes they use to make decisions and their transparency in doing so. And all have sucked ASS in that regard. So, no thanks on giving them a pass just because their predecessors were actually competent.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Or we could realize that the Big Ten--of which we've been a part of for over a century and has been very good to us--held a vote, and we just happened to be on the short end of that vote, and we can subsequently sack it up and get on with our lives. We can certainly use our clout to try and reverse that vote internally, and I don't have a problem with that. What we shouldn't be doing is listening to some politician trying to push us into a scorched earth legal battle against our own conference so he can score brownie points with the leadership of his party. That is destructive, short-term thinking of the highest order.

It's not as much the voting result, but rather the shady, clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, rushed manner in which it was done. Then these fucktards send out a copy of their by-laws redacted more heavily than Top Secret military documents. What is of the highest order here is the cosmic level of gross ineptitude displayed by these stooges.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Or we could realize that the Big Ten--of which we've been a part of for over a century and has been very good to us--held a vote, and we just happened to be on the short end of that vote, and we can subsequently sack it up and get on with our lives. We can certainly use our clout to try and reverse that vote internally, and I don't have a problem with that. What we shouldn't be doing is listening to some politician trying to push us into a scorched earth legal battle against our own conference so he can score brownie points with the leadership of his party. That is destructive, short-term thinking of the highest order.

More than likely it's just political posturing from one side to counterweight some of the political posturing from the other side. In other words, a negotiating tactic.

I'd let things play out a lot farther before I started worrying about the right people getting their comeuppance, scorched earth or political parties.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

It's not as much the voting result, but rather the shady, clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, rushed manner in which it was done. Then these fucktards send out a copy of their by-laws redacted more heavily than Top Secret military documents. What is of the highest order here is the cosmic level of gross ineptitude displayed by these stooges.

I agree with your point. My contention is that the method to address this is to use the considerably large dick that we swing around in conference matters to do our talking behind the scenes (which I hope is what's happening right now) rather than be pushed into a public legal fight against the conference and the other schools at the behest of a politician.

 

[Bucklion]

I agree with your point. My contention is that the method to address this is to use the considerably large dick that we swing around in conference matters to do our talking behind the scenes (which I hope is what's happening right now) rather than be pushed into a public legal fight against the conference and the other schools at the behest of a politician.

If “speak softly and swing a big dick” is wrong...

 

[Mike80]

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

I've not had anything to say about Warren until now.......but seriously...... fuck this guy for making me agree with James Franklin.

 

[Jake]

"Did I pick the right time to retire, or what?" - Jim Delaney #NotMyProblem

 

[Hstead]

Or we could realize that the Big Ten--of which we've been a part of for over a century and has been very good to us--held a vote, and we just happened to be on the short end of that vote, and we can subsequently sack it up and get on with our lives. We can certainly use our clout to try and reverse that vote internally, and I don't have a problem with that. What we shouldn't be doing is listening to some politician trying to push us into a scorched earth legal battle against our own conference so he can score brownie points with the leadership of his party. That is destructive, short-term thinking of the highest order.

Wouldn't be like the three democrat Governors using it as a political issue at all though. Nope.

 

[Hstead]

I agree with your point. My contention is that the method to address this is to use the considerably large dick that we swing around in conference matters to do our talking behind the scenes (which I hope is what's happening right now) rather than be pushed into a public legal fight against the conference and the other schools at the behest of a politician.

You mean the Governor of Michigan?