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Why does this need to be anything more than he was a crap commissioner and got canned for doing a bad job?

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigeast/post/_/ ... o-go-wrong
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story ... omed-start
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigeast/post/_/ ... mmissioner

Fake Dan Bebee would make a fine comish

The combined idiocy of Andrea Adelson, Dana O'Neal and Stewart Mandel...all at once...is way too much for the human soul to take. It's just a crushing level of poor writing and incompetence.

http://www.nunesmagician.com/2012/5/8/3 ... -tranghese

"When you live inside a bubble like the one that surrounds college sports long enough, you start to notice some things. You tend to see the same people writing about the same topics around the same time and, where their opinions differ and their opinions are the same. You build up a mental rolodex of everyone's stances and sides and agendas.

And then, eventually, you realize that everyone is full of crap and then you just try to block everything out.

Yesterday was the John Marinatto Farewell Tour around the college sports media world. It wasn't his fault, it was the Big East Presidents' fault. Big East commissioner is a thankless endeavor and literally the toughest job on Planet Earth. Marinatto was too much a man of integrity and commitment for the new world. And, of course, this is all Syracuse, Pitt and West Virginia's fault.

Speaking of Mike Tranghese, who said yesterday, "I thought that the basketball and football schools coexisted beautifully up to the point when Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia departed." First of all, that says a lot about Tranghese's hold on the reality of college athletics in 2012."

Is it perceived as a step up or down for ADs to take commissioner's positions for a strong conference? Just curious.