Breathe a sigh of relief, Northwestern fans. Jim Phillips is not going anywhere.
The Big Ten officially named 55-year-old former Minnesota Vikings Chief Operating Officer Kevin Warren as its sixth commissioner Tuesday in a press conference at the conference’s headquarters in Rosemont, Illinois. Mully and Haugh on Chicago’s “670 The Score” first broke the news late Monday on Twitter. Warren is expected to replace Jim Delany in early 2020. Delaney is retiring after a 30-year stint at the helm of the B1G.
Warren, the highest-ranking African-American executive working on the business side for a team in the NFL and the first African-American COO in NFL history, will become the first African-American commissioner of a Power Five conference.