On Monday, the Big Ten Conference announced that Jim Delaney will conclude his term as the league’s commissioner in June 2020, when his current contract expires. Delany came to the conference in 1989 having previously held the same position at the Ohio Valley Conference.
The Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors has begun a search process to identify a successor to be led by the COP/C Executive Committee and led by Chair Morton Schapiro, Northwestern’s president.
“It’s been an amazing opportunity to serve and lead these preeminent institutions, presidents, administrators, coaches and students,” Delany said in a statement.