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Brent Yarina ‏@BTNBrentYarina 2h
Jim Delany sporting a @Yankees hat at #B1GTourney. pic.twitter.com/j6uv6CU2lE

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#B1G commissioner Jim Delany all in with the New York market - wearing a Yankees hat.


Sports reporter for Lafayette (Ind.) Journal and Courier. focusing on football, women's basketball and the Big Ten Conference.
 
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Nicky...who cares who is a Yankee fan. It ain't about being a fan...

And Swoffy well may have been a fan. Most of us in the south of the 1950's didn't have a baseball team to root for...the closest were Washington DC and St. Louis. So we picked teams.

I grew up a Yankee fan in North Florida...NY was where baseball was happening when I was 10...Duke Snider, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays all roaming Center Field for a NY based team. I loved Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron, Pee Wee Reese, Yogi Berra, Tony Kubec, Gil Hodges, Don Drysdale, Don Larsen etc.

Many North Florida boys loved NY baseball.

Sure Delaney is wearing a NY ball cap...and FSU played a baseball game with the Yankees last month.
 
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Nicky...who cares who is a Yankee fan. It ain't about being a fan...

And Swoffy well may have been a fan. Most of us in the south of the 1950's didn't have a baseball team to root for...the closest were Washington DC and St. Louis. So we picked teams.

I grew up a Yankee fan in North Florida...NY was where baseball was happening when I was 10...Duke Snider, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays all roaming Center Field for a NY based team. I loved Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron, Pee Wee Reese, Yogi Berra, Tony Kubec, Gil Hodges, Don Drysdale, Don Larsen etc.

Many North Florida boys loved NY baseball.

Sure Delaney is wearing a NY ball cap...and FSU played a baseball game with the Yankees last month.
Growing up in Fairfield County I saw those guys play frequently.
But as much as we loved our Yankees we hated those Dodger guys. There were a lot of Dodger Fans in Ct.
They were our biggest rival. Cleveland was the American League rival.Boston was pretty much a non entity at the time.

So much so that Ted Williams was one of my favorite players as we would argue with our national league fan friends over whether Williams or Musial was the better hitter.
 
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I had to settle with watching the guys in the baggy uniforms run around the bases on a black and white TV. Dizzy Dean was a great commentator.

I had all of the baseball cards and played baseball with my Rawlings PML Stan Musial glove....it was a golden age...for me anyway.
 
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Nicky...who cares who is a Yankee fan. It ain't about being a fan...

And Swoffy well may have been a fan. Most of us in the south of the 1950's didn't have a baseball team to root for...the closest were Washington DC and St. Louis. So we picked teams.

I grew up a Yankee fan in North Florida...NY was where baseball was happening when I was 10...Duke Snider, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays all roaming Center Field for a NY based team. I loved Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron, Pee Wee Reese, Yogi Berra, Tony Kubec, Gil Hodges, Don Drysdale, Don Larsen etc.

Many North Florida boys loved NY baseball.

Sure Delaney is wearing a NY ball cap...and FSU played a baseball game with the Yankees last month.
And lost to the Yankees. Ha Ha
 
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Yeah...ha ha.

Envious much?

A college team lost to the big ticket Yankees...but with a respectable big league score of 8-3.

But it wasn't really about the score...it was about a college guy getting to pitch to Jeter and making a lifetime memory, guys getting autographs from their heroes, playing with wooden bats against big league pitching.

What team wouldn't want this experience?

FSU is in a good place right now in baseball...#2 in baseball and playing fairly well. Just now finished the opening game of the NC State series this week end...won 6-1.
 
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Yeah...ha ha.

Envious much?

A college team lost to the big ticket Yankees...but with a respectable big league score of 8-3.

But it wasn't really about the score...it was about a college guy getting to pitch to Jeter and making a lifetime memory, guys getting autographs from their heroes, playing with wooden bats against big league pitching.

What team wouldn't want this experience?

FSU is in a good place right now in baseball...#2 in baseball and playing fairly well. Just now finished the opening game of the NC State series this week end...won 6-1.
FSU=BC
 
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BC ain't that good.....usually one doesn't hate non factors. It is actually an honor to be disliked....ask Bama or Notre Dame.

Who dislikes Butler?
 
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MH3 ‏@MH3 Mar 21
Wow if what u was just told has a shred of truth to it then change is coming. Huge change. Slive to B10 "checkmate"

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And no that doesn't mean slive is going to B10. He is basically about to 1-up him for good
 
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jostar1 said:
MH3 ‏@MH3 Mar 21
Wow if what u was just told has a shred of truth to it then change is coming. Huge change. Slive to B10 "checkmate"

MH3 ‏@MH3 Mar 21
And no that doesn't mean slive is going to B10. He is basically about to 1-up him for good

Classic mh3
 

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What can Slive do to permanently 1-up the B10, without breaking up the B12 or ACC? Make more money? Merge with the B12 into a superconference?
 
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MH3 ‏@MH3 Mar 21
Wow if what u was just told has a shred of truth to it then change is coming. Huge change. Slive to B10 "checkmate"

MH3 ‏@MH3 Mar 21
And no that doesn't mean slive is going to B10. He is basically about to 1-up him for good

This must be the long rumored Ohio St & Michigan to the SEC move....:D
 
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MH3 ‏@MH3 Mar 21
Wow if what u was just told has a shred of truth to it then change is coming. Huge change. Slive to B10 "checkmate"

MH3 ‏@MH3 Mar 21
And no that doesn't mean slive is going to B10. He is basically about to 1-up him for good

Only way the SEC can one up the B1G is for the SEC to get UNC or Texas. Both schools want to king of the hill and neither will be in the SEC. Plus, Texas has the Longhorn Network to deal with and an A&M team that is on top and may not want to share. UNC has an academic issue to deal with in which the academic side of Chapel Hill may not take kindly to joining a perceived academically inferior conference.
 
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Only way the SEC can one up the B1G is for the SEC to get UNC or Texas. Both schools want to king of the hill and neither will be in the SEC. Plus, Texas has the Longhorn Network to deal with and an A&M team that is on top and may not want to share. UNC has an academic issue to deal with in which the academic side of Chapel Hill may not take kindly to joining a perceived academically inferior conference.
Why does UNC's academic situation matter, they'd fit right in with the SEC's "if you ain't cheatin, you gonna take a beatin" philosophy.
 

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In what alternative universe does the SEC need to one up the B1G? The SEC was an Auburn win from creating there own Division. All they need to do is continue paying players, forging academic records, filling stadiums, winning games, and keep the locals convinced that watching 19-22 old semi-pros play FB once a week is the meaning of life.
 
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Why does UNC's academic situation matter, they'd fit right in with the SEC's "if you ain't cheatin, you gonna take a beatin" philosophy.

Half of Chapel Hill wants to be a top 10 $ports school, the other half wants to be a top 10 public university. Those two objectives do not always agree with each other.
 
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The last thirty years have been about maintaining a carefully maintained fiction of the "scholar-athlete"....

When a school with the undeniable academic cachet of North Carolina is shown to have an organized system of providing fraudulent classes and enhanced grades to athletes, you know that the towel has been thrown in.

There is too much money, too much pressure, for there to be teams of scholar athletes. There are teams of freakish athletes who may be able to read on the 7th grade level (the higher functioning ones, anyway). And take college courses that are designed to keep them eligible.

The average football player scores on the SAT at levels far, far below the student body average. Maybe the majority would not be accepted if they were not an athlete.

Let's just take the Gators...
...the U of Florida freshman class...84% earned a 4.0 in high school
...88% of entrants had a SAT range of 2100-2400

University of Florida's gap between football players and the student body has its players scoring 346 points lower than their peers.

At the University of Wisconsin, over 50% of football players do not meet the normal requirements for admission and come under a special admission process...same with Georgia, LSU, Clemson, Texas A&M and many others.
 
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We all have heard about Stanford's achievement in athletics and academics...but the truth came out...

"In a blockbuster report from the San Francisco Chronicle this morning, it was revealed that an “Easy Class List” existed for Stanford athletes, but it was “discontinued” last week after pesky reporters began asking questions.

“(Stanford) accommodates athletes in the manner that they accommodate students with disabilities,” said Donald Barr, who teaches a Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, Health course, which was highlighted by resource center advisers."

A drama class in "Beginning Improvising" and another in "Social Dances of North America III" were among dozens of classes on a closely guarded quarterly list distributed only to Stanford athletes to help them choose courses.

The classes on the list were "always chock-full of athletes and very easy A's," added Kira Maker, a women's soccer player who used the list her freshman year.

Titled "courses of interest," the list was distributed by the Athletic Academic Resource Center. Advisers in other departments at the university said they were unaware such a list existed.


Even Stanford gave up on the scholar athlete and did what others do...set up crip courses, easy grades to keep up the GPA....
 
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While the recent suit against the NCAA may put the lie to the American fiction of teams made up of the scholar athletes that attend the university, I find nothing more damning then this account...

(CNN) -- Early in her career as a learning specialist, Mary Willingham was in her office when a basketball player at the University of North Carolina walked in looking for help with his classwork.

He couldn't read or write.

"And I kind of panicked. What do you do with that?" she said, recalling the meeting.

Willingham's job was to help athletes who weren't quite ready academically for the work required at UNC at Chapel Hill, one of the country's top public universities.

But she was shocked that one couldn't read. And then she found he was not an anomaly.

Soon, she'd meet a student-athlete who couldn't read multisyllabic words. She had to teach him to sound out Wis-con-sin, as kids do in elementary school.
 

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