https://bigten.org/news/2023/4/12/genera...rence.aspx

Quote:He will begin his tenure on May 15. He replaces Commissioner Kevin Warren, whose final day with the Big Ten Conference is Friday, April 14. Warren was named president and chief executive officer of the Chicago Bears.

Quote:The search for the seventh Big Ten Conference commissioner was led by the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors’ Executive Search Committee. University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines served as chair alongside University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel, The Ohio State University President Kristina M. Johnson, and Chair of the Council of Presidents and Chancellors and University of Illinois Chancellor Robert Jones.

Quote:The 14 current Big Ten Conference member institutions, in addition to the two new members who will join the conference in 2024, participated in the interview process and the final selection of Petitti.

(04-12-2023 02:29 PM)Transic_nyc Wrote:  

Quote:The search for the seventh Big Ten Conference commissioner was led by the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors’ Executive Search Committee. University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines served as chair alongside University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel, The Ohio State University President Kristina M. Johnson, and Chair of the Council of Presidents and Chancellors and University of Illinois Chancellor Robert Jones.

So half of the members of the executive search committee are lame-duck Presidents. That is certainly a dynamic.

(04-12-2023 02:03 PM)Poster Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 02:01 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  Thamel says:

Quote:Unless of course they're planning to add more schools (cough, cough, Oregon & Washington) and need to package another rights deal sooner.

I'd like to point out that, besides the Big Ten's own TV contracts, there is a huge television contract being negotiated in the next two years with an enormous impact on the Big Ten -- the new College Football Playoff contract (including, or not, the Rose Bowl)

Even if they (the Big Ten presidents) don't have an appetite for 18 or 20 teams, there's still a lot of value to having a television guy in house.

What would the playoff TV contract have to do with the Big Ten commissioner? That would be a deal the NCAA commissioner would sign, not the Big Ten commissioner.

Nope. The playoff is run by College Football Playoff Inc, owned by (or maybe a partnership among?) the 10 FBS conferences and Notre Dame.

NCAA ain't got nothin' to do with it, and that's 100% on purpose.

Quote:The only thing the Big Ten commissioner could really do is lobby the NCAA on how the playoff money should be distributed between conferences.

No. The CFP is run by the 10 FBS conferences, and the SEC and Big Ten commissioners are the most important voices for obvious reasons.

Quote:But the Big Ten commissioner would still not be working directly with the TV networks there.

Not directly, that is true. But the College Football Playoff structure and TV contract is a very important thing, and having a TV guy in-house is probably an advantage there.

(04-12-2023 02:36 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  The CFP is run by the 10 FBS conferences, and the SEC and Big Ten commissioners are the most important voices for obvious reasons.

They brought in the guy who helped put together the BCS which served the purpose of increasing revenue for the AQ conferences by putting up greater barriers to access for the non-AQ conferences. Seems like the kind of guy you might hire if you wanted to more favorably structure the CFB in order to hoard a greater proportion of revenue and access.

(04-13-2023 02:47 PM)jrj84105 Wrote:  

(04-12-2023 02:36 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  The CFP is run by the 10 FBS conferences, and the SEC and Big Ten commissioners are the most important voices for obvious reasons.

They brought in the guy who helped put together the BCS which served the purpose of increasing revenue for the AQ conferences by putting up greater barriers to access for the non-AQ conferences. Seems like the kind of guy you might hire if you wanted to more favorably structure the CFB in order to hoard a greater proportion of revenue and access.

If I were applying for the Big Ten commissioner job, that powerpoint slide is definitley in my presentation. One of the new Big Ten commissioner's top agenda items should be reaching an understanding with Greg Sankey and the SEC about how the CFP money should be distributed, and start working on different models that would increase the SEC and Big TEn's share of the CFP money (most likely at the expense of the ACC, PAC and Big 12. Less P5 equality, more pay by performance, details of "performance" to be determined)



I don't know that the BCS really reduced access for the non-AQ conferences -- those schools and conferences never had that access. Remember BYU winning their national championship vs 6-5 Michigan in the Holiday Bowl?

BYU’s Holiday bowl win was a big part of the impetus to prevent a National Championship happening again outside the defined power structure. I’d say that BYU’s 1984 season was the impetus for the ultimate formation of the BCS. Which was then cracked and busted wide open by Utah and Boise respectively.

3 little schools on I-15 were largely responsible for the birth and demise of the BCS.