The country’s oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference is the Big Ten Conference. It was founded in 1896 as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, predating the establishment of its governing body, the NCAA.
Who is the head of the Big 10?
On June 4, 2019, Kevin Warren was appointed Commissioner of the Big Ten Conference. Warren replaces Jim Delany as the Big Ten’s sixth commissioner. Warren is the Big Ten’s first African-American president and the Power Five conferences’ first African-American president.
Kevin Fulbright Warren is an attorney and sports executive from the United States. Warren is the team president and chief executive officer of the National Football League’s Chicago Bears (NFL). Warren previously served as the Big Ten Conference commissioner. Warren was the first African-American Commissioner and the first in any of the major American student-sports conferences in history.
Warren was previously the chief operating officer of the National Football League’s Minnesota Vikings and the highest-ranking African-American executive working on the business side of an NFL team. Warren became the NFL’s first African-American Chief Operating Officer in 2015.
Who runs the Big Ten Conference?
The Big Ten Conference is run by a committee.