For whatever it's worth, I think he deserves far more criticism for CHANGING the league's championship criteria to put Ohio State in the football title game than he does for HOLDING to the league's criteria in naming Michigan the sole champion. But he set the precedent with one and then didn't follow it with the other, that much is true.I don't criticize Warren for the COVID handling, as this was dictated to him from further up the food chain. I absolutely criticize Warren for his mismanagement of the league's on field/court product degradation due to no officiating quality control, and his decision to gift the 2020-2021 basketball regular season championship to Michigan.
The B1G would be crazy to start this search with any other candidate, and he would be crazy to say no. Let's hope it's that simple.I bet Jim Phillips would jump at this job.
Maybe, but if that's true then it's on the powers that be who hired him and did not explain how things work in the B10. I believe Warren's marching orders came from an even higher level than them. They just "encouraged" him to "fix" it after the fact. JMO. It also doesn't diminish the fact that he has absolutely mismanaged the product, but maybe that is also dictated from above his position.For whatever it's worth, I think he deserves far more criticism for CHANGING the league's championship criteria to put Ohio State in the football title game than he does for HOLDING to the league's criteria in naming Michigan the sole champion. But he set the precedent with one and then didn't follow it with the other, that much is true.
Everyone knows who the real 2021 champion was, even Hunter Dickinson himself. I don't lose a moment's sleep over that.
But anyway, it was absolutely the COVID thing. The Big Ten is a conference that settles things behind closed doors and speaks with one voice. That's what Jim Delany built. When the new guy screwed that up in such a high-profile fashion immediately, he was done, there was never any coming back from that.
and I dont think he's ever gotten the warm fuzzy feeling from alot of people - and rightfully so .It sounds like Warren is going to the Bears. He has been an NFL executive before and helped the Vikings build US Bank Stadium. Fits that role well.
I spoke in another thread yesterday about the inherent personality type and attitude differences between university faculty leadership-type people and college football-type people.Maybe, but if that's true then it's on the powers that be who hired him and did not explain how things work in the B10. I believe Warren's marching orders came from an even higher level than them. They just "encouraged" him to "fix" it after the fact. JMO