Jim Delany
The latter half of the twentieth century saw American collegiate athletics become an increasingly professionalized and legally complex arena, drawing figures who moved between the playing court and institutional administration. James Delany, born on January 1, 1948, was one such figure, a United States citizen whose career connected athletic participation with formal legal training.
Delany worked as a basketball player and pursued his education at Saint Benedict's Preparatory School before going on to study at the University of North Carolina School of Law. That combination of athletic background and legal education placed him at an intersection that became central to his professional life. His contributions to the field were recognized with the John Bunn Award, and that specific honor provides the clearest available measure of how his work was received within the broader basketball community.
Quotes by Jim Delany
I don't think we'd ever treat any school like we were treated at Ohio State,'' Carr said.
Intercollegiate athletics is a big business, ... For anyone to say it's not would be disingenuous.
Intercollegiate athletics is a big business. For anyone to say it's not would be disingenuous.
If you disagree with it, that's your right. It's your choice. It's OK, ... But we have a lot of people coming to our games. We've got a lot of people watching our games (on TV). ... Why would we change what we're doing?
The bowls know what they know. And the selection process is sacrosanct. We may get disappointed, but that is the nature of the bowl system.
It was an effective p.r. effort by the Cowen group, I don't think there's any doubt about that. All things being equal, we wouldn't have gone to a fifth bowl. ... Although we were moving in an evolutionary way toward more inclusion, whether we would have gotten to this point, I doubt it. I think we were pushed to this point.
There have been discussions about the Big Ten being down, and my reaction was, ?I don't think we're down,? ... I don't think we have a Kentucky or an Arizona in our league. But I'd rather have quality depth than shallow depth in one or two good teams. And I think that's what we have.
To have Penn State back in the mainstream is a very good thing, not just for the Big Ten but for all of college football.