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

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ScriptOhio said:
Incoming Big Ten commish already being discussed as NFL’s replacement for Roger Goodell

Kevin Warren doesn’t even have his name officially on the door as the incoming Big Ten Commissioner and yet there’s already talk surfacing about Jim Delany’s successor taking over for another successful, if controversial, commissioner. Namely, that would be Roger Goodell in a return to the league where Warren recently departed as Chief Operating Officer for the Minnesota Vikings.

Per The Athletic’s Daniel Kaplan, several influential figures in NFL circles have long thought Warren has the chops and resume to assume the top gig a little over five years in the pro version of the game after spending time getting his feet wet leading at the collegiate level:

Those with close ties to the NFL view him as a future commissioner and expect the Big Ten to be only a steppingstone, not a final stop. The incumbent NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, has had the post since 2006, and his current deal runs through March 2024. While Goodell has not said this is his last contract, most assume that’s the case (a spokesman, Joe Lockhart, said so in December 2017, though Goodell has repeatedly rejected that he has made any decision on that score).

Warren, 55, is “one of those handful of people that are in the NFL right now that could very well be considered as a future commissioner,” said Marc Ganis, a sports consultant with close ties to Goodell. “Whether it’s the NFL or another league, he is a meaningful candidate.”

Big Ten fans (and probably Delany himself) have to both cringe and be excited over the fact that their new leader is held in such high esteem by America’s biggest sport that one of the oldest and most respected conferences in the game would be considered a “steppingstone.” Only time will tell but we’re sure a story of this magnitude is bound to be discussed at least a little bit with conference media days kicking off in the middle of July.

Entire article: https://collegefootballtalk.nbcspor...cussed-as-nfls-replacement-for-roger-goodell/
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ScriptOhio said:
B1G Could Play ‘Independent’ Of What Other Conferences Do This Season Per Commish

While we are still sitting on a calendar that has yet to even reach the second week of May, it is impossible not to see the pages beginning to flutter as the college football season hangs in uncertainty.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down spring sports and stopped winter sports in their tracks. Fall sports are still a few months off, but they are looming.

With so many states under different distinctions of stay-at-home orders, the ability for one conference to even operate for a college football season while they are spread out over several states is up in the air right now. Plans are being put in place to make it happen, but every contingency has a contingency this far out.

One of the major questions regarding the Big Ten playing football this season may have been answered on Monday by B1G commissioner Kevin Warren. Speaking with Big Ten Network host Dave Revsine, Warren was asked if he thought the conferences would work together in returning to play, and also if he saw a scenario where some leagues may come back this year and others would not.

The thought is out there that if every school can’t play college football this year, then no schools would play. Warren seemed to nix that idea, leaving it open that the Big Ten will do what they need to do, even if it means doing things “from an independent standpoint.”

“[The Power Five commissioners] had a call this morning and I think what I had said, and I made it very clear even back to my press conference in June which seems like 10 years ago, is the fact that we will always be the Big Ten. And the Big Ten is the Big Ten for a certain reason,” Warren said.

“Which means we will always — to the best of our abilities — do what we feel is the right thing to do. Sometimes that may mean that we’re with a group. Sometimes that may mean that we do things from an independent standpoint. But I will always say that my goal is to make sure that we feel comfortable that we do the right thing and that we remember that we have a responsibility with our brand, with our universities.”

Entire article: https://theozone.net/2020/05/b1g-play-independent-conferences-season-per-commish/
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Mike80 said:
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He sees the B1G as a stepping stone. This is his opportunity to show he can make difficult decisions..................at everyone else's expense. Fuck this guy. :roll1:
 
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Jake said:
Well then they can go fuck themselves. Dickless wonders, and nothing he said there convinces me that players organizing had nothing to do with it. B1G and PAC 12 players came together as one and submitted their requests. Both conferences ran like hell to cancel the season.

I might have bought the "thorough and deliberative" horse shit if the same bunch hadn't released a revised schedule 6 days before chucking the season. What happened in those six days? See my first paragraph.
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It amazes how so many powerful people can continuely fuck up crisis management and learn nothing from the Jim Tressel/Urban Meyer, Ped state and numeroud doctor molestation scandalls. It literally looks liek they paniced over the MAC cancelling, rushed when they didn't have to look like they are first on player safety. Then doubled down on it cause they don't want to give the impression they panicked in the first place.
 
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I asked Kevin Warren if his son Powers was practicing and preparing to play at Mississippi State, despite KW's input in the Big Ten's decision not to play.

Powers is playing.

"As a family, we’ve had many difficult discussions regarding this issue."

Note: You do not get free access to The Atlantic article.
 
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I really don't understand why people don't understand that decisions made in one's professional capacity might be different than the decisions they'd make in their private capacity.

Add to this ORD's point about how a first year Commissioner isn't going to be much more than the Presidents' mouth piece and fall guy, and the whole 'well Warren's kid is playing' becomes even less interesting a talking point.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
I really don't understand why people don't understand that decisions made in one's professional capacity might be different than the decisions they'd make in their private capacity.

Add to this ORD's point about how a first year Commissioner isn't going to be much more than the President's mouth piece and fall guy, and the whole 'well Warren's kid is playing' becomes even less interesting a talking point.
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Not all internet sports forum bitching is rooted in perfect logic.

I've seen a couple of people, over the years, be downright irrational.
 
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