MIAMI — Kevin Warren slides into a chair at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach wearing a gray sweatsuit and a serene countenance. If anyone should be happy to see the calendar flip to 2021, it’s the Big Ten commissioner, whose first year on the job was unlike any year we’ve ever had. There were trials by fire and fury—and he says he’s glad to have had them.
“It brought all the positive juice out of me,” Warren says. “It was good. My New Year’s resolution going into the year was to grow in my prayer life. Well, it happened.