Our esteemed commish is poster child for "the peter principle"
Kevin Warren's open letter to the Big Ten community
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Rainbows and unicorn farts. The substance of your arguments.
They don't take minutes at their board meetings? All of their email communication by the way is also subject to foia. The information in the communication with each other will be quite telling both by what it contains but also by what it doesn't contain. How was the information distributed for example to the president's in advance of their meetings and what is that information. Was their any emails between the president's or their offices with the commissioner or with each other. Look at the emails for the staffers of each president.
A lack of information or emails by the way indicates a deliberate attempt to collude and to keep information from the public. These are public universities for the most part and as such they are required by law to be open on their decisions even if the decisions are wrong or the public disagrees with the outcome. They don't get to lie and they must be transparent. At the very least they are failing in that mission completely. Some of this may be criminal in nature if it is being done deliberately.
A lack of information or emails by the way indicates a deliberate attempt to collude and to keep information from the public. These are public universities for the most part and as such they are required by law to be open on their decisions even if the decisions are wrong or the public disagrees with the outcome. They don't get to lie and they must be transparent. At the very least they are failing in that mission completely. Some of this may be criminal in nature if it is being done deliberately.
He will only look like a genious if all other conferences fail to have a season. If they are successful, Warren needs to go.
Hindsight is pretty simple
Hindsight is pretty simple
I spit out my coffee when I read this. People having freaking lost their minds.
That and saving money. Without fans, all the payout games conference teams would have to give out (for example Iowa paying Northern Illinois) would have been a severe drain on Big 10 teams. Going to conference-only games means no payouts to visiting teams for showing up to play.
Thank you for sharing. With ED rates like that, literally there will never be a time when it is safe enough to return to sports if they can't play now. Nothing in January about the long-term effects of COVID will have changed by then either. If you are citing uncertainty about long-term effects as a reason for not playing, 5 months in the future doesn't address the long-term question. The whole thing stinks, the "re-opening" game has been rigged to have standards that can never be achieved, leaving it up to one person or a small group of people to do whatever they want with no repercussions. "We know best, and there's nothing you can do about and we are not required to share any rationale for our decision."
Fraud is illegal. They don't get to have secret meetings and decisions. If they do not comply with open records requirements they are breaking the law. The dept of justice has an entire webpage dedicated to it. Fairly clear they take this type of thing seriously with sanctions against the organization and the employee possible.
https://www.justice.gov/jm/eousa-resource-manual-137-sanctions-violating-foia
They selected a political activist as the Commissioner. That was a very bad decision that is going to have long range, destructive, consequences.
If he's here long. The last couple of months may lead to his early departure....
