Great article on Big 10 commissioner Delany's comments about the SEC recruiting. In a statement more loaded than Florida's recruiting class, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany this week claimed that when it comes to procuring football players his league is more ethical and academically minded than the Southeastern Conference. Here's what it sounded like he was saying: His league won't compromise its supposed high academic standards to sign a bunch of fast, dumb guys, especially at a position that in the SEC is overwhelmingly played by blacks. So of all the inane Internet message board postings associated with national signing day, the Big Ten commissioner managed the dumbest of them all in an outrageous bit of arrogance that belies his own league's history of rampant cheating and historic scandal. He was fired up by media coverage pointing out the failures of Big Ten recruiting and the need for the league to get more speed. So he decided to attack the ethics of the ever renegade SEC – "Surely Everybody's Cheating" – which is generally such an easy foil that you don't need to play on stereotypes to mock it. "I wish we had (seven) teams among the top 10 recruiting classes every year, but winning our way requires some discipline and restraint with the recruitment process," Delany wrote. "Not every athlete fits athletically, academically or socially at every university. Fortunately, we have been able to balance our athletic and academic mission so that we can compete successfully and keep faith with our academic standards." This is bizarre on so many levels, even outside Delany equating high speed with low academic performance. Delany was not made available for clarification. First, when did conference commissioners decide to start slamming other leagues? (SEC commissioner Mike Slive responded with a class email pointing out his league's recent success.) And blaming losses on academic standards? Sure, Delany wants Notre Dame in the Big Ten, but did he have to steal its act? Finally, where did he get the idea that his league is some bastion of morality and academic purity? Read the rest of the Yahoosports article here: http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;...vrYF?slug=dw-delany021707&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
That scathing review was very well written. It reminded me of Leonard Skynard's scathing response to Neil Young's "Southern Man". Well done.
The big ten is jealous of the sec. This is no different than the previous article written about the SEC. Big Ten is the football power conference of the past for now. These things go in cycles so they may be king of the hill one day in the future! big ten is ex-wife who just can't get over how things use to be.
I don't understand what the big mystery is. Most of the players in the NFL are from the South, thus the ACC and SEC rule when it comes to Football recruiting. In the NBA, most os the players are from the East Coast which is why the Big East, ACC, etc. do so well in recruiting basketball players. It's more regional than anything...
Ever notice the prominence of black athletes in modern football. Ever see a map of the distribution of black people in America? They concentrate in major cities and the states of the old Confederacy. Guess which conference covers the old Confederacy?
Like that Joseph Barksdale kid. No academic or moral qualities on that kid. That must be the reason why LSU was able to pull him out of Big 10 country. Get a new act dude. Big 10 is not what it used to be, just accept it and be glad that Illinois was able to represent you in the top 10 of most sites while the SEC had 4-7 in the top 10.
So this is the reason there aren't any power houses in Alaska.:yelwink2: I always wondered about that!
