Big Ten Firing Authority Proposal Gets Big Pushback

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Word that Big Ten Conference commissioner Jim Delany was angling for the authority to fire coaches of member institutions who damage the league's reputation seemed like something more befitting the satirical pages of The Onion than the website of The Chronicle of Higher Education, where the actual news item was reported Thursday.

Brad Wolverton writes, "The proposal, part of a plan being circulated among Big Ten leaders, would give James E. Delany, who has overseen the league since 1989, and a powerful committee of conference presidents the ability to penalize individual members of an institution, should their actions significantly harm the league's reputation.

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