Rutgers & Maryland Join Big Ten

[Influence]

:joker:

Maryland football?

 

[SuperKevin]

:joker:

Maryland football?

Wait until the Under Armor influence starts drawing recruits. Then with a decent coach they will be back. It could be worse and they could be a dead program like Indiana

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Wait until the Under Armor influence starts drawing recruits. Then with a decent coach they will be back. It could be worse and they could be a dead program like Indiana

MD should have taken Mike Leach when they had the chance. I am not a MD fan at all, but I would have been excited over that move and followed them. At the very least, it would make the football team interesting and relevant.

 

[Woy]

:joker:

Rutgers basketball?

In due time, my friend...

 

[Argath]

I have yet to meet a UMD fan that likes this move. UMD has been in the ACC since the ACC was formed in the 50s. UMD isnt just gonna lose fans cause of this, they're gonna lose most of their boosters. My dad has a friend who donated to the basketball program all the time and has free season tickets and he's already said if the move becomes official him and a group of his "booster" friends won't donate another penny to UMD. I'm sure theres a lot more like that.


This move makes absolutely 0 sense. Even if we increase our conference revenue by 8 million a year its still going to take 7+ years for UMD to just make the ACC exit fee back and hit profit. The B10 contract is only rumored to go through 2017 so they could potentially kick us out before we even break even. So fucking stupid on so many levels i still don't see a legitimate reason for UMD doing this.

 

[Atlas]

I have yet to meet a UMD fan that likes this move. UMD has been in the ACC since the ACC was formed in the 50s. UMD isnt just gonna lose fans cause of this, they're gonna lose most of their boosters. My dad has a friend who donated to the basketball program all the time and has free season tickets and he's already said if the move becomes official him and a group of his "booster" friends won't donate another penny to UMD. I'm sure theres a lot more like that.


This move makes absolutely 0 sense. Even if we increase our conference revenue by 8 million a year its still going to take 7+ years for UMD to just make the ACC exit fee back and hit profit. The B10 contract is only rumored to go through 2017 so they could potentially kick us out before we even break even. So fucking stupid on so many levels i still don't see a legitimate reason for UMD doing this.

the b1g and kevin plank could and probably will take care of both of those problems... btw, this means more money for UMD and less having to deal with the tobacco road mafia, which almost all the teams are pissed about, especially clemson and FSU, after they added pitt and syracuse instead of adding a better option in all sports... and if you think the exit fee won't be negotiated down (not all teams voted for the exit fee to be that high), then you are high, b/c FSU, GT, Clemson, VT, UVA and every other school outside of the triad wants to leave (GT and UVA have already contacted the B1G, and VT has been talking to the SEC for the last year)...

 

[Argath]

the b1g and kevin plank could and probably will take care of both of those problems... btw, this means more money for UMD and less having to deal with the tobacco road mafia, which almost all the teams are pissed about, especially clemson and FSU, after they added pitt and syracuse instead of adding a better option in all sports... and if you think the exit fee won't be negotiated down (not all teams voted for the exit fee to be that high), then you are high, b/c FSU, GT, Clemson, VT, UVA and every other school outside of the triad wants to leave (GT and UVA have already contacted the B1G, and VT has been talking to the SEC for the last year)...

Only 2 teams voted against the exit fee, UMD and FSU. I don't see FSU leaving the ACC so tell me again why the ACC will give a fuck about Maryland when we are just ditching them. Btw, I highly doubt Kevin Plank is gonna fork out $50 million so it looks like UMD will be closing more NCAA sports down to make this move.

This move makes absolutely no sense still. We don't fit in at all with the Big10. It's like throwing an African man in the middle of a KKK rally we don't belong here and never will. Our football squad is poo pah. Always have been and always will be. I don't even think we play hockey nor do I think any of the B10 teams play lacrosse. Basketball there might be competition but not as much as the ACC will have after this year and the B10 plays a completely different style of basketball than the ACC which could spell disaster for us in the first few years. All in all the way I see it we upgraded our competition in sports no UMD fan gives a fuck about and downgraded our competition in all the sports UMD is good at. I say again what the fuck.


Although if UConn is really replacing UMD in the conference I can see why no one else in the ACC gives a fuck. Atleast their football team doesn't have a freshman LB starting at QB.

 

[Argath]

And it's official fucking shit



Awesome cant wait to see us lose in football by an average of 28

 

[ralaw]

Much like Syracuse in the ACC this move eats at the core of my youth......I am saddened. What about the UM/Duke games? They will never be the same. Traditions are dead in college sports.

 

[Woy]

Conference expansion is fucking awful.

 

[Argath]

Much like Syracuse in the ACC this move eats at the core of my youth......I am saddened. What about the UM/Duke games? They will never be the same. Traditions are dead in college sports.

Couldn't agree more

 

[Yawkey Way]

Now hear me out for a minute because I could be totally wrong.

But aren't all of these teams realigning to bail themselves out of business plans that are not profitable? And by that I mean, all these athletic departments are losing money every year in their previous conferences, so they just up and leave instead of correcting a flawed business model? I was watching 60 minutes last night and the AD of Michigan said only 22 teams of a possible 125 were cash flow even, or positive.

Instead of changing conferences for the quick and easy buck, why don't more teams try to correct their mistakes? They're ruining traditions, rivalries, and alienating fan bases. I guess I may just be naive, but there's no reason for Rutgers and Maryland to move to the Big 10. None.

 

[Matt]

The UMD vs Duke/UNC rivalries died when they added Syracuse/Pitt. They were only gonna play once a year. They can do that over the ACC/Big Ten challenge.

Football wise ACC/Big10 ain't a big difference in competition. Just gives UMD better recruiting areas now with West PA and Ohio instead of North Carolina.

Basketball wise they will be Top 7 every year in the conference. I'm looking forward to better competition in these games and Turgeron pace on court can exploit slow Big Ten. Turgeron is turning the team around and he gets Texas kids so recruiting wont be affected.

That Under Armour money going to help with recruiting and Big10 revenue is a huge get. This was financial over anything else.

Also Rutgers probably paying off some of Marylands bill.

 

[Argath]

The UMD vs Duke/UNC rivalries died when they add Syracuse/Pitt. They were only gonna play once a year. They can do that over the ACC/Big Ten challenge.

Football wise ACC/Big10 ain't a big difference in competition. Just gives UMD better recruiting areas now with West PA and Ohio instead of North Carolina.

Basketball wise they will be Top 7 every year in the conference. I'm looking forward to better competition in these games and Turgeron pace on court can exploit slow Big Ten. Turgeron is turning the team around and he gets Texas kids do recruiting wont be affected.

That Under Armour money going to help with recruiting and Big10 revenue is a huge get. This was financial over anything else.

Also Rutgers probably paying off some of Marylands bill.

Uhhh how is Maryland going to pay the $50 million? And that's only the first question.


What about every other NCAA sport Maryland has. I know all we here at VSN think about are football and basketball but what about other NCAA sports? Lacrosse has been marylands nest NCAA team the past 5 years. Does the B10 even have lacrosse? One of the biggest sports in the B10 is hockey. I don't even think Maryland has an NCAA hockey team.

In fact, outside of money which is gonna take a decade to even see profit anyways, what does Maryland have in common with ANY Big 10 team? Absolutely nothing. None of their sports match up with ours. Even their style of basketball is completely different. This isn't going to improve recruiting at all UMD has never recruited out of the carolinas and their not just gonna miraculously start getting top recruits out of the North Midwest either. UMD will do what it always does and bring in local talent from VA and ignore anyone coming out of Baltimore. The only sport recruiting out of Texas is basketball and its not like their raking in top tier talent from the area.

As far as Maryland Basketball working the Big10 I have a feeling its going to be the other way around. UMD needs more shooters if they're gonna compete. They might be fast but the Big10 is big as fuck especially compared to Maryland. Our post is gonna get dominated and our guards aren't gonna be able to score on the drive anymore.


As far as rivalries go, you can throw any that UMD has picked up in its almost SIXTY year tenure in the ACC out the window. They may play ACC teams once in basketball but it no longer will have the same significance or atmosphere.

I'm just dumb founded that mother fuckers think they have the right to destroy 60 years of tradition because another conference is offering slightly more money per year, and yes in the grand scheme of things it is slightly. It may sounds terrible but I honestly hope every UMD sport falls flat on its face and they realize how fucking stupid of a decision this shit was.

 

[Matt]

They won't pay entire 50 million

ECAC for lacrosse. Club Hockey will go D1.

Anderson has no ties to ACC so he doesn't care.

 

[Pitty]

This move has :fail: written all over it.

 

[Argath]

They won't pay entire 50 million

ECAC for lacrosse. Club Hockey will go D1.

Anderson has no ties to ACC so he doesn't care.

Ok let's say they only pay $20 mill (which I bet they end up paying way more than that but this is what the original exit fee was). They're still not gonna be able to pay that off for 3 years and that's if they apply 100% of the new revenue they make towards this fee. With the amount of debt they have I doubt they would be able to pay this off in 5 years. Besides you don't think the ACC is gonna increase in revenue after adding Syracuse, Pitt and ND?

Who the fuck cares if our AD has ties to the ACC or the Big10 or any other conference. University of Maryland was a fucking founding member of the ACC. That used to mean something. Fuck our AD. I hope the mfer loses his job for this. He should go back to fucking Iowa if he loves the B10 that much. Fuck him.

 

[SuperKevin]

I feel like this is karma for all of those years of talking shit about the B1G schools

 

[ralaw]

I'm done with being upset about these moves. College sports is now about television revenue and football and nothing more. Eventually all of the top schools will be in 4 conferences anyways. Once Pitt and Syracuse joined it was no longer the ACC basketball that I grew up with. I don't want to hear anymore talk about tradition, rivalries and the "student" athletes.

 

[NAHSTE]

This sucks and is literally the opposite of what anybody wants. But, since this is the NCAA we are talking about, that means it has to happen.