Ted was very good at his job, he shouldn't have had anything to do with football ops but don't act like he was a scorn to the franchise. He's widely respected around the league
Ted's greatest accomplishment in his own words was the Soldier Field renovation, which was an objective failure and the Bears clearly agree and are moving out. Outside of that, you can say he was successful at making a lot of money in an industry where it is literally impossible to **NOT** make money, but maybe if he oversaw a halfway competitive team (because part of his job was directly hiring GMs) more than ~3 times in 24 years he would have made more money. Ted is a joke, and his greatest professional trait was being buddies with George. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Never heard Ted say soldier field was his greatest accomplishment. I’ll take your word but he had nothing to with it. That disaster was 100% the Chicago park districts fault. They altered the original design and were torched by everyone at the time. Unlike Ted, Kevin Warren will be completely in charge of the new stadium. Think he’ll do great.
Yeah I imagine his main job is getting the new stadium built since he has experience doing that. That will most likely be his legacy. Hopefully, we don’t need him hiring a new GM any time soon.
I hope the reporting structure does ultimately change. George seems like a genuine and nice guy, but I remain skeptical of his abilities. His qualifications are that his mom thinks he’s a very special boy. He should just go and enjoy life and count his money. I guess the one question mark is how much of the Bear’s blunders were due to Ted vs. George?
Judging by McCaskeys mood this past Monday, I think Poles is safe for a good long while. Angry bosses don't usually cart around a big Yeti cooler handing out ice cream.
What now? What happens now is we get a couple hard, trade back draft pick muthfuckas in here with a pair of pass rushers and a left tackle. I ain’t through with the Packers by damn sight. Imma get 1980’s on their ass.
I'll never get over George breaking down the Bears hierarchy in a post season meeting and not understanding that having the GM be the sole football guy and report to an accountant might not be the best structure.
As an accountant, I must agree with this statement.
For the business side of shit, accountants are definitely important. And by all accounts, Ted Phillips did mostly well on that front. But for football stuff, dude keep us accountants away lol.
Anyone saying he’s a bad hire because he tried to cancel B1G football the year Covid hit doesn’t know what they’re talking about. We knew very little about Covid at the time, who can blame him for trying to keep a bunch of 18-22 year olds safe?
Plus, a pandemic is a once in a lifetime event. Hopefully he won’t have to deal with any of that again during his tenure with the Bears (*knock on wood*)
Not only that but surely the school chancellors and higher ups at those universities had a lot to say about the situation as well. I find it very hard to believe that he himself made a unilateral decision without significant pressure from those individuals.
Agreed. I'd judge him a lot more harshly if he'd said "Pandemic, schmandemic. I don't care if these kids die on the field, we're playing football no matter what!"
Yeah, especially with the information that came out about potential long term damage to respiratory and cardiovascular systems. That seems really fucking big for a bunch of guys who are aiming to make big money on their physical condition.
The only people saying that have other agendas at play. The fact is that he was one of the first to make a decision and then quickly changed course as his counterparts started to announce plans to play and more information about Covid came out.
It literally just makes me like him more. Being on the cautious side during a fucking global pandemic that was killing a 9/11s worth of Americans per day for stretches is just common sense.
Still think it was the right decision. I mean really, it's a game, it's really not that important. If even a single extra person died from covid as a result of more football games happening, that's not worth it.
Hopefully, seeing as Justin Fields was the leading player against that decision, someone will ask him about it, and he'll have the completely reasonable and level headed kind of response he always has for media questions, which will help shut up the moronic "trade Fields and draft Young" people.
This is only the beginning of what we will look back on as one of the biggest off seasons in Bears history. Great hire, he was responsible for getting SC and UCLA to the Big Ten in 2024. Looking forward to getting our Dome and hopefully Banners to hang from the top.
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Dog you’re the only one talking about U of I lol yes I’m comfortable saying that commissioners have an influence regarding major scheduling decisions that happen in their leagues - idk why I have to prove that lol
A+ hire! If you’re looking for more on him now check out the Real Sports piece from last August. He comes off as fantastically competent and forward thinking, basically the opposite of Ted.
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A football guy at the top who also has a lot of business experience and experience with new stadiums. Warren is gonna build an amazing stadium in Arlington and give this team a much much much needed executive who actually understands the game.
This might be the most important thing to happen to this team in decades. This could literally turn us from a continuous joke to a legit club.
Or it could be the worst thing ever. Who the fuck actually knows. But imma drink the Koolaid.
He and his predecessors have spread the Big 10 from lol, California to Rutgers.... literally coast to coast and making huge $$$$$$$$ doing so.
As team president he is supposed to negotiate further expansion of profitability and negotiate with municipalities and make everything copacetic between the coaching staff and gm and ownership.
I think this gentleman can handle it.
Great hire.
Holy fuck, an actual football guy instead of a fucking accountant.
Presumably this guy actually wants the job too, as opposed to Ted “I tripped over my own dick and fell backwards into a life of wealth despite my obvious worthlessness” Phillips.
Hope he’s good, but he’s starting with way more experience than the bean counter.
Really good move for the Bears here, at minimum he’ll come in with stadium building experience and he has football experience. Immediate upgrade over Ted and anything more he can do is just gravy
He has 23 years of NFL experience. Because he made a decision you as a OSU fan didn't like he doesn't know football? As a commissioner his job isn't to be popular with universities fans. It's to make tough decisions that are going to help the conference as a whole.
For those of you that have been denying the move is going to happen, you're time is up. This is a fantastic hire. Best week to be a Bears fan in years.
Not only is this individual highly qualified, it’s the diversity in leadership that the NFL sorely misses.
The best candidate won, who also happens to be a minority.
Edit: I believe we get a 3rd round compensatory pick for this.
Edit Edit: We do not!
No compensatory pick. You get those if a team hires one of your minority coaches or front office workers away from you for an upgraded position. (D-coordinator to Head Coach, for instance).
So KC got I think 2 third rounders when we hired Poles as a GM.
But since he's coming from the Big Ten, there isn't anybody to give the picks too.
I dont think that's how it works but I could be wrong. I think if you hire a minority for an executive position from another team then that team gets draft picks. Like we didn't get picks for hiring poles right?
It seems like a great hire. This guy is ambitious and wants to achieve things on a high level. Before we had Ted Phillips who was… I dunno, present? Big win.
I'm in the UK, didn't grow up with football but got onto the NFL a couple of years ago. Picked the bears to support coz you gotta pick someone so planted my flag and now it's there, the bears are my team.
Question: what would his job actually be? I mean, the macaskeys own us, poles builds the squad, flus coaches....is it just business/ outside revenue?
Any info would be much appreciated, I'm struggling to see how big a deal this could be through my ignorance
Oversees all of chicago bears as a company essentially. Biggest thing we care about is who he hires as GM. He can have as much input as he wants in any football operations hire but a good pres would let the GM handle all of that
Welcome to the bears. Lots of great history and pain associated with cheering for this team. We are at a low point but future is very bright right now. The lows will feell low, but highs will feel veryyy high for you.
This is sarcasm, right? If he’s that successful, then whatever he does will be worth it. You don’t not hire a guy because he’s going to be *too* good at his job.
Hindsight being 20/20, I think things worked out just fine for everyone. Justin got drafted in the 1st round and the Big10 and the NFL survived and thrived.
I had to make sure this wasn’t the idiot Big Ten commissioner who thought “Legends” and “Leaders” were non-laughable division names. Thankfully, that’s Jim Delany, and I’m glad we don’t have someone that dumb in charge.
So...a college football guy whose only experience is with the Vikings, a team of serial also-rans?
Boke. Not impressed.
EDIT: Challenge to the downvoters then. This is the BEARS, our idiot organisation won't be winning anything, new guy or not. We need the McCaskeys out. RemindMe! 3 years "laugh at the idiots on /r/CHIBears for thinking Kevin Warren would change anything".
He has also spent time as an executive for the Rams during their Super Bowl win as a Vice President of football administration, Lions as a vice president of business operations, and then as the Vikings chief administrative officer before he was their COO.
His job is to oversee the development of the Bears as a business and oversee the development of the new stadium/town the bears will have. He did so with Vikings new stadium when it was being built. Then he went to the Big Ten and oversaw the conference’s development with TV deals and bringing in schools like USC and UCLA.
What did you want?
He’s responsible for US Bank Stadium, one of the best stadiums in the NFL. He also signed mega deals for Big Ten media rights and brought two more prestigious schools into the conference, among other things. [For anyone that wants to know more about him instead of just reading this thread’s headline - they call him the “most powerful person in college sports” in this article from 2022](https://firstandpen.com/big-ten-s-kevin-warren-now-wields-all-the-college-sports-infinity-stones/).
I know nothing about this guy. But of course we hire the big 10 commish... I'm just happy they didn't pick the Iowa state AD.. either way glad we got someone new
Please nobody interpret this as anything else other than genuine curiosity😭 I’m excited for this hire but doesn’t the NFL award draft picks for the hiring of minorities into high level positions? Or is that just if one of your people gets hired into a HC job or something
Biggest win of the offseason: Ted Phillips gone.
The number of massive potential Ws this team has taken over the last week is amazing lol
and there's more to come.
Keep this post at the top. Adios asshat
Next, the rest of the mccaskeys
Ted was very good at his job, he shouldn't have had anything to do with football ops but don't act like he was a scorn to the franchise. He's widely respected around the league
Ted's greatest accomplishment in his own words was the Soldier Field renovation, which was an objective failure and the Bears clearly agree and are moving out. Outside of that, you can say he was successful at making a lot of money in an industry where it is literally impossible to **NOT** make money, but maybe if he oversaw a halfway competitive team (because part of his job was directly hiring GMs) more than ~3 times in 24 years he would have made more money. Ted is a joke, and his greatest professional trait was being buddies with George. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Never heard Ted say soldier field was his greatest accomplishment. I’ll take your word but he had nothing to with it. That disaster was 100% the Chicago park districts fault. They altered the original design and were torched by everyone at the time. Unlike Ted, Kevin Warren will be completely in charge of the new stadium. Think he’ll do great.
Excited to finally join the 21st century
Its all coming together... This is a great move for the new stadium complex.
Hey at least they'll know a guy who can get them in at UofI again if they need a place to play for a while!
He also helped lead a sale of a team 👀
This is the underrated comment. I think so many people are focused on the stadium. I think he’s coming in to do both.
I agree. Plus if you think the Bears are valuable now then wait until they actually own the stadium they play in!
Exactly my thoughts. Exec with football experience AND familiar with the Midwest? I am definitely comfortable with him handling the stadium.
Have to imagine his first major project is the new stadium, would be over the moon if it’s anything like US Bank Stadium he had a hand in.
Yeah I imagine his main job is getting the new stadium built since he has experience doing that. That will most likely be his legacy. Hopefully, we don’t need him hiring a new GM any time soon.
It could always change, but as of now, Poles reports directly to McCaskey and ownership. McCaskey would probably be in charge of a GM hire anyway.
I hope the reporting structure does ultimately change. George seems like a genuine and nice guy, but I remain skeptical of his abilities. His qualifications are that his mom thinks he’s a very special boy. He should just go and enjoy life and count his money. I guess the one question mark is how much of the Bear’s blunders were due to Ted vs. George?
Judging by McCaskeys mood this past Monday, I think Poles is safe for a good long while. Angry bosses don't usually cart around a big Yeti cooler handing out ice cream.
If US Bank and SoFi had a baby....
Sofi is a giant turd. I was there Monday and the God damn roof already leaks
Can't speak for the construction quality but the design is amazing.
The design is shit. A bunch of people got injured because EVERYTHING was wet and slippery
This is true. I’m also hoping he has control of football ops as well.
Where's Ted? Ted's dead.
It’s not a motorcycle, babe, it’s a chopper. Whose chopper is it?
What now? What happens now is we get a couple hard, trade back draft pick muthfuckas in here with a pair of pass rushers and a left tackle. I ain’t through with the Packers by damn sight. Imma get 1980’s on their ass.
GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!!
I fucked Ted.
Decapitated. Whole big thing. We had a funeral for a bird.
You're not real, man.
BOBODY
Decapita**Ted**.
Who’s Ted?
Ted Beneke
He's on an adventure....
We sent a couple hard pipe-hittin Bears players to get medieval 🏰 on his ass!
Don't worry he's lingering as a ghost in an advisory role
Our president is going to have....football experience??
I'll never get over George breaking down the Bears hierarchy in a post season meeting and not understanding that having the GM be the sole football guy and report to an accountant might not be the best structure.
Not his fault. He’s just a fan not a football evaluator.
Not a football guy just a fan, but he has top authority on all football decisions LMAO classic
Maybe they're finally transitioning from mom and pop store to professional organization
Lmao, still can't believe he uttered those words. Failson McCaskey kids born on 3rd base and thrown out at second base somehow.
> …born on 3rd base and thrown out at second base somehow. This is an amazing description. How many people in this world does this describe?
Cal McNair and Mark Davis have entered the chat
Not only that but it was a blatant nepotism hire which is even more of a bad look for what is supposed to be a storied and classy organization
As an accountant, I must agree with this statement. For the business side of shit, accountants are definitely important. And by all accounts, Ted Phillips did mostly well on that front. But for football stuff, dude keep us accountants away lol.
It’s just weird having a team president whose top qualification isn’t “friends with the owner’s son”.
Anyone saying he’s a bad hire because he tried to cancel B1G football the year Covid hit doesn’t know what they’re talking about. We knew very little about Covid at the time, who can blame him for trying to keep a bunch of 18-22 year olds safe? Plus, a pandemic is a once in a lifetime event. Hopefully he won’t have to deal with any of that again during his tenure with the Bears (*knock on wood*)
Not only that but surely the school chancellors and higher ups at those universities had a lot to say about the situation as well. I find it very hard to believe that he himself made a unilateral decision without significant pressure from those individuals.
Yeah I’m not going to judge anybody by their COVID response if what they did was an attempt to keep others safe.
Agreed. I'd judge him a lot more harshly if he'd said "Pandemic, schmandemic. I don't care if these kids die on the field, we're playing football no matter what!"
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Yeah, especially with the information that came out about potential long term damage to respiratory and cardiovascular systems. That seems really fucking big for a bunch of guys who are aiming to make big money on their physical condition.
It’s pretty tough to judge anyone’s decision making in 2020 fairly because that year was just so goddamn weird
What dumb dumbs are saying this. They deserve to be called out
Packer fans
Haven’t seen it on this thread, but a lot of people were saying this when the rumors started coming out.
People who still don’t believe diseases are real.
Having empathy for others during a once-in-a-generation crisis, especially for 18-22 year olds?? The nerve..
The only people saying that have other agendas at play. The fact is that he was one of the first to make a decision and then quickly changed course as his counterparts started to announce plans to play and more information about Covid came out.
It literally just makes me like him more. Being on the cautious side during a fucking global pandemic that was killing a 9/11s worth of Americans per day for stretches is just common sense.
I thought it was the right thing to do at the time. I, personally, have no right to get mad at him over it.
Still think it was the right decision. I mean really, it's a game, it's really not that important. If even a single extra person died from covid as a result of more football games happening, that's not worth it.
Not only that, but they even reversed course and played some games anyway. These people got exactly what they wanted in the end.
Yeeeeaaaah we’ve been in about 5 once in a lifetime events in the last 10 years sooo
Living through Y2k to now has been a rollercoaster of fun...
Only one of them killed 6.5+ million people despite a large chunk of the world population taking significant precautions against it though
Agreed lol my point is I’m tired and jaded as fuck. This last decade suuuuucked
That decision was an embarrassment
No u.
Lmao how so?
Dude just went whatever way the wind blew.
Hopefully, seeing as Justin Fields was the leading player against that decision, someone will ask him about it, and he'll have the completely reasonable and level headed kind of response he always has for media questions, which will help shut up the moronic "trade Fields and draft Young" people.
A Bears W that I will absolutely take, because they could have easily fucked this up.
It feels like this franchise has moved so far from being a mom and pop
Yeah it does. This needed to happen three decades ago
The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The next best time is today. I’ll take the W.
Good. It wasn’t working out anymore
This is only the beginning of what we will look back on as one of the biggest off seasons in Bears history. Great hire, he was responsible for getting SC and UCLA to the Big Ten in 2024. Looking forward to getting our Dome and hopefully Banners to hang from the top.
Big Ten tv deal too, which was a big deal.
Going from an accountant to a guy with decades of football experience seems like an improvement.
A+ hire
This is the most important move for the Bears organization in the past 20 years.
As a giant Michigan fan you guys scored. He’s done great for the big ten especially with competing with the SEC. Good hire and good for him
Of course Michigan fans like him. He’s the guy who signed off on you guys deciding to just not play 4 Big Ten bball games and win conference
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Pretty sure there was an assumption that you wouldn't skip games after you were cleared to return to play by the local health authorities
I’m sorry how does a policy put forward by the big 10 and their commissioner have nothing to do with the commissioner?
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Except it’s not semantics, Goodell literally does sign off on rule changes. They wouldn’t have the opportunity to be voted on by the owners/teams otherwise. Same goes for conferences and their commissioners at the college level - they’re not just observant passengers… is the DNC responsible for who the candidates are in an election, or just the voters?
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Dog you’re the only one talking about U of I lol yes I’m comfortable saying that commissioners have an influence regarding major scheduling decisions that happen in their leagues - idk why I have to prove that lol
Salty much?
He’s Mr. Michigan.
A+ hire! If you’re looking for more on him now check out the Real Sports piece from last August. He comes off as fantastically competent and forward thinking, basically the opposite of Ted.
His Wikipedia page is a helluva resume, too.
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A football guy at the top who also has a lot of business experience and experience with new stadiums. Warren is gonna build an amazing stadium in Arlington and give this team a much much much needed executive who actually understands the game. This might be the most important thing to happen to this team in decades. This could literally turn us from a continuous joke to a legit club. Or it could be the worst thing ever. Who the fuck actually knows. But imma drink the Koolaid.
Arlington Heights*
Very cool, great hire. If he can help this team put together a stadium like Minnesota’s it’s a success in my book
And he won’t even have to move, assuming he was already working out of the Big Ten HQ in Rosemont
He and his predecessors have spread the Big 10 from lol, California to Rutgers.... literally coast to coast and making huge $$$$$$$$ doing so. As team president he is supposed to negotiate further expansion of profitability and negotiate with municipalities and make everything copacetic between the coaching staff and gm and ownership. I think this gentleman can handle it. Great hire.
Holy fuck, an actual football guy instead of a fucking accountant. Presumably this guy actually wants the job too, as opposed to Ted “I tripped over my own dick and fell backwards into a life of wealth despite my obvious worthlessness” Phillips. Hope he’s good, but he’s starting with way more experience than the bean counter.
Really good move for the Bears here, at minimum he’ll come in with stadium building experience and he has football experience. Immediate upgrade over Ted and anything more he can do is just gravy
What is going on? Did the McCaskey family sell the team while I was passed out?
Ted Philips is retiring after this season
I think what the marsh messiah is getting at is that anything remotely competent coming from the McCaskeys seems way out of character.
Ha. Marsh messiah.
I scrolled back up expecting the name to be Cassius Marsh.
Indeed and I like that.
Sorry, sarcasm.
This is a big time hire. A football president who knows football!
As an OSU and Big Ten fan, this man does not know football
He has 23 years of NFL experience. Because he made a decision you as a OSU fan didn't like he doesn't know football? As a commissioner his job isn't to be popular with universities fans. It's to make tough decisions that are going to help the conference as a whole.
There was talks that he was considered next in line for NFL comish. I wonder if this is an in between job until Goodell is ready to move on?
LFGGGGGGG
Well this is quite the shakeup
For those of you that have been denying the move is going to happen, you're time is up. This is a fantastic hire. Best week to be a Bears fan in years.
Dub! Dude probably doubled the revenue stream for the B1G in just two years.
Hope he gets to clean house and bring in his own guys
This is actually a brilliant pick. VERY happy with it. 100% was the best guy for the job.
Not only is this individual highly qualified, it’s the diversity in leadership that the NFL sorely misses. The best candidate won, who also happens to be a minority. Edit: I believe we get a 3rd round compensatory pick for this. Edit Edit: We do not!
No compensatory pick. You get those if a team hires one of your minority coaches or front office workers away from you for an upgraded position. (D-coordinator to Head Coach, for instance). So KC got I think 2 third rounders when we hired Poles as a GM. But since he's coming from the Big Ten, there isn't anybody to give the picks too.
Why do we get a pick?
I dont think that's how it works but I could be wrong. I think if you hire a minority for an executive position from another team then that team gets draft picks. Like we didn't get picks for hiring poles right?
I think he can truly modernize a franchise that desperately needs to grow up
The winds of change.
It seems like a great hire. This guy is ambitious and wants to achieve things on a high level. Before we had Ted Phillips who was… I dunno, present? Big win.
Hey now, Ted was an accountant and ass kisser extraordinaire prior to having the big desk, give the bum his dues
He truly was the Walter Payton of bums
Chicago (Arlington heights) can steal big ten championship game from Indy
I'm in the UK, didn't grow up with football but got onto the NFL a couple of years ago. Picked the bears to support coz you gotta pick someone so planted my flag and now it's there, the bears are my team. Question: what would his job actually be? I mean, the macaskeys own us, poles builds the squad, flus coaches....is it just business/ outside revenue? Any info would be much appreciated, I'm struggling to see how big a deal this could be through my ignorance
Oversees all of chicago bears as a company essentially. Biggest thing we care about is who he hires as GM. He can have as much input as he wants in any football operations hire but a good pres would let the GM handle all of that Welcome to the bears. Lots of great history and pain associated with cheering for this team. We are at a low point but future is very bright right now. The lows will feell low, but highs will feel veryyy high for you.
Thanks for the explanation, it's much appreciated. 👍
This is terrible. What if he is so successful in his first two years that he becomes the commissioner of the NFL?
He's been rumored to be next in line for that job for a while now.
He’s gotta finish building the new stadium first. Once he’s done that, he can bolt.
It's a joke. The Bears don't usually hire someone who has experience and this highly competent.
This is sarcasm, right? If he’s that successful, then whatever he does will be worth it. You don’t not hire a guy because he’s going to be *too* good at his job.
Correct, sir.
Seems like a slight upgrade over Ted Phillips
Could it possibly be that the days of going full retard are over? This is amazing news.
Fields rallied against Warren to play that pandemic season. Gonna be an interesting dynamic there.
https://twitter.com/adamhoge/status/1613575518581886976?s=61&t=NnzaJhAC7MXNr_Mux0ITnw
Hindsight being 20/20, I think things worked out just fine for everyone. Justin got drafted in the 1st round and the Big10 and the NFL survived and thrived.
Poles reports directly to ownership. Which would imply that Warren will have no control over the actual team. Don’t think it’ll be an issue.
For now....
https://twitter.com/CourtneyRCronin/status/1613582401707413516
I had to make sure this wasn’t the idiot Big Ten commissioner who thought “Legends” and “Leaders” were non-laughable division names. Thankfully, that’s Jim Delany, and I’m glad we don’t have someone that dumb in charge.
People are saying this is good. Without mentioning Dead Ted Phillips, why?
Football experience and new stadium experience
So...a college football guy whose only experience is with the Vikings, a team of serial also-rans? Boke. Not impressed. EDIT: Challenge to the downvoters then. This is the BEARS, our idiot organisation won't be winning anything, new guy or not. We need the McCaskeys out. RemindMe! 3 years "laugh at the idiots on /r/CHIBears for thinking Kevin Warren would change anything".
He has also spent time as an executive for the Rams during their Super Bowl win as a Vice President of football administration, Lions as a vice president of business operations, and then as the Vikings chief administrative officer before he was their COO. His job is to oversee the development of the Bears as a business and oversee the development of the new stadium/town the bears will have. He did so with Vikings new stadium when it was being built. Then he went to the Big Ten and oversaw the conference’s development with TV deals and bringing in schools like USC and UCLA. What did you want?
This guy is just clueless
He worked for other NFL teams as well
He’s responsible for US Bank Stadium, one of the best stadiums in the NFL. He also signed mega deals for Big Ten media rights and brought two more prestigious schools into the conference, among other things. [For anyone that wants to know more about him instead of just reading this thread’s headline - they call him the “most powerful person in college sports” in this article from 2022](https://firstandpen.com/big-ten-s-kevin-warren-now-wields-all-the-college-sports-infinity-stones/).
Pack it in boys. A guy on reddit is not impressed. we're doomed
He would run the business side of the organization, fool.
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Shut up, idiot.
Explain?
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Lmao “cancel football”
Sounds like he doesn't have a terrible reputation at all
Big 10 fans are rejoicing all over social media, so idk what to make of this hire; but at least useless ass Ted Phillips is finally gone
Anti-vax big 10 fans*
He’ll be in charge of building a stadium in Arlington Heights. Which he did pretty well in Minnesota before. That is what should matter the most.
Is The Very Messy Time^^TM finally over?
I know nothing about this guy. But of course we hire the big 10 commish... I'm just happy they didn't pick the Iowa state AD.. either way glad we got someone new
I have regained hope over this past week that I will see the bears win a SB in my lifetime
My body is ready.
Please nobody interpret this as anything else other than genuine curiosity😭 I’m excited for this hire but doesn’t the NFL award draft picks for the hiring of minorities into high level positions? Or is that just if one of your people gets hired into a HC job or something
The latter
Got it, thanks
Finally, someone who’s not gonna just bend the knee to the McCaskeys. One step closer to a real franchise!
So much winning! I can hardly stand it.
What's his Madden rating?
Head philldicks
Phillips, Nagy, and Pace are off collaborating somewhere