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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 608958, member: 430"] I wouldn't be hanging my hat on anything Jim Delany says publicly. Here are some of his more recent quotes: Delany claimed the Big Ten division alignment was not something you looked at “on a five or 10-year basis.” He thought “some future administration” might reevaluate it “20 years from now.” (The B1G [URL='http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2012/12/14/big-ten-seems-ready-for-move-to-eastwest-divisions-with-michigan-and-ohio-state-together/'][U][COLOR=#0066cc]floated division realignment two years later[/COLOR][/U][/URL].) [INDENT]“We certainly didn’t set it up to change it. I doubt whether or not a five-year competitive record would be sufficient justification to go back to the drawing board. I think if you look at it 20 years from now and it was out of kilter and it had been out of kilter for a decade, some future administration might look at it. … Twenty years from now, maybe the world will be different. And maybe it’ll be time to take a look. But we certainly didn’t set out thinking we were going to be tweaking this on a five- or 10-year basis.”[/INDENT] Delany suggested the Big Ten would stick “at 12 for many years” because Big Ten teams “really want to play each other more and not less.” (The B1G [URL='http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2012/11/17/maryland-and-rutgers-may-join-the-big-ten/'][U][COLOR=#0066cc]added Maryland and Rutgers 23 months later[/COLOR][/U][/URL].) [INDENT]“To be honest with you, I know we’ll monitor the landscape as any good group ought to, every five years or so. We all read the papers and we all watch TV and we all watch our competition. But I will tell you this, the amount of respect or affection we have for each other is high and we really want to play each other more and not less. And so I think it’s more likely than not that we’ll be at 12 for many years.”[/INDENT] Delany was asked if he foresaw “any possibility at any time in the future that the Big Ten might favor a playoff system rather than the BCS.” His response was curt. [INDENT]“No. You wanted a simple answer to a simple question.”[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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