UMD joining the B1G?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maryland should be in the ACC. Another bonehead realignment driven by college football money and nothing else. Now the all the small sports have a travel schedule that looks like men's basketball. Stupid.

You haven't been paying attention. The ACC has morphed into the Big East ( yuck ). UMD is a 950 million dollar a year research institution ( 3rd in the US behind Hopkins and Michigan ). The CIC increases potential by creating a super university of like minded and cooperative state flagship research giants plus Hopkins (the biggest) Northwestern and U of Chicago . The fact that the B1G doubles the revenue of the athletic dept compared to the ACC is just a nice bonus. The ACC is a mishmash of schools of differing sizes, goals, interests and objectives and has been geographically cut in half with its best TV market surgically removed by the Big Ten. It's days are numbered, UMD got out ahead and doesn't have to concern itself with the ACC's problems . If the administration didn't take the Big Ten offer they would have to be nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland should be in the ACC. Another bonehead realignment driven by college football money and nothing else. Now the all the small sports have a travel schedule that looks like men's basketball. Stupid.

You haven't been paying attention. The ACC has morphed into the Big East ( yuck ). UMD is a 950 million dollar a year research institution ( 3rd in the US behind Hopkins and Michigan ). The CIC increases potential by creating a super university of like minded and cooperative state flagship research giants plus Hopkins (the biggest) Northwestern and U of Chicago . The fact that the B1G doubles the revenue of the athletic dept compared to the ACC is just a nice bonus. The ACC is a mishmash of schools of differing sizes, goals, interests and objectives and has been geographically cut in half with its best TV market surgically removed by the Big Ten. It's days are numbered, UMD got out ahead and doesn't have to concern itself with the ACC's problems . If the administration didn't take the Big Ten offer they would have to be nuts.

Boy, is this a misreading of events. Maryland athletics have been mismanaged for years. That hasn't changed. College Park has little in common with these big Midwestern schools. It's a terrible fit. Even Maryland boosters have to acknowledge that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland should be in the ACC. Another bonehead realignment driven by college football money and nothing else. Now the all the small sports have a travel schedule that looks like men's basketball. Stupid.

You haven't been paying attention. The ACC has morphed into the Big East ( yuck ). UMD is a 950 million dollar a year research institution ( 3rd in the US behind Hopkins and Michigan ). The CIC increases potential by creating a super university of like minded and cooperative state flagship research giants plus Hopkins (the biggest) Northwestern and U of Chicago . The fact that the B1G doubles the revenue of the athletic dept compared to the ACC is just a nice bonus. The ACC is a mishmash of schools of differing sizes, goals, interests and objectives and has been geographically cut in half with its best TV market surgically removed by the Big Ten. It's days are numbered, UMD got out ahead and doesn't have to concern itself with the ACC's problems . If the administration didn't take the Big Ten offer they would have to be nuts.

This is fantasy. The notion that conference realignment is about anything other than football and TV money is patently ridiculous. Super universities? like minded and cooperative state flagship research giants? doubling the revenue of the athletic department is just bonus? LMAO. What turnip truck did you just fall off of? Football revenue is not the icing on the cake, it IS the cake. And the pie and cookies, too. It is the only point of any of this.

Also, to say that the ACC has morphed into the Big East reveals a complete lack of history. The Big East for much of its existence was a a group of schools of similar goals, interest, and objectives all clustered in the northeast--exactly what you are extolling about the current Big 10. The Big East morphed into something completely unrecognizable (and, as it happens, something that is looking a lot like doom) because some of its members started doing exactly what Maryland is doing--chasing after football money.

And can we please stop with the "B1G" nonsense. That is a marketing logo on a jersey where the G looks a little like the zero in the number 10. Like B10. Typewritten, it makes zero sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland should be in the ACC. Another bonehead realignment driven by college football money and nothing else. Now the all the small sports have a travel schedule that looks like men's basketball. Stupid.

You haven't been paying attention. The ACC has morphed into the Big East ( yuck ). UMD is a 950 million dollar a year research institution ( 3rd in the US behind Hopkins and Michigan ). The CIC increases potential by creating a super university of like minded and cooperative state flagship research giants plus Hopkins (the biggest) Northwestern and U of Chicago . The fact that the B1G doubles the revenue of the athletic dept compared to the ACC is just a nice bonus. The ACC is a mishmash of schools of differing sizes, goals, interests and objectives and has been geographically cut in half with its best TV market surgically removed by the Big Ten. It's days are numbered, UMD got out ahead and doesn't have to concern itself with the ACC's problems . If the administration didn't take the Big Ten offer they would have to be nuts.

This is fantasy. The notion that conference realignment is about anything other than football and TV money is patently ridiculous. Super universities? like minded and cooperative state flagship research giants? doubling the revenue of the athletic department is just bonus? LMAO. What turnip truck did you just fall off of? Football revenue is not the icing on the cake, it IS the cake. And the pie and cookies, too. It is the only point of any of this.

Also, to say that the ACC has morphed into the Big East reveals a complete lack of history. The Big East for much of its existence was a a group of schools of similar goals, interest, and objectives all clustered in the northeast--exactly what you are extolling about the current Big 10. The Big East morphed into something completely unrecognizable (and, as it happens, something that is looking a lot like doom) because some of its members started doing exactly what Maryland is doing--chasing after football money.

And can we please stop with the "B1G" nonsense. That is a marketing logo on a jersey where the G looks a little like the zero in the number 10. Like B10. Typewritten, it makes zero sense.

+1. Well put. The Maryland B1G booster has drunk the Kool-aid.

[Anonymous]

The Koolaid tastes good!!
11 out of 14 schools are flagship research state institutions. UMD is in the east division whose teams will make up the majority of the schedule.
Rutgers,UMD,OSU PSU,MIICH,MICH ST, IU,PURDUE.
Those teams are all closer than FSU and Miami.


The ACC has only 2 out of 15 flagship schools. It's a mishmash of small privates, and secondary state institutions in the shadow of more popular schools in different conferences.

Why shouldn't UMD make twice as much money instead of splitting our TV market with the tobacco schools? Only an idiot would do that .

UMD fits in the Big 10 . Nobody fits in the ACC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maryland is already in the CIC and students can transfer into or take any course from U of Chicago , Nebraska , Iowa , Wisconsin , Northwestern , Indiana , Purdue , Michigan , Minnesota , Michigan state , Rutgers , Penn State , Ohio State or Johns Hopkins.

This is really a good idea. The big ten schools seem to try and boost each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Maryland should be in the ACC. Another bonehead realignment driven by college football money and nothing else. Now the all the small sports have a travel schedule that looks like men's basketball. Stupid.


You haven't been paying attention. The ACC has morphed into the Big East ( yuck ). UMD is a 950 million dollar a year research institution ( 3rd in the US behind Hopkins and Michigan ). The CIC increases potential by creating a super university of like minded and cooperative state flagship research giants plus Hopkins (the biggest) Northwestern and U of Chicago . The fact that the B1G doubles the revenue of the athletic dept compared to the ACC is just a nice bonus. The ACC is a mishmash of schools of differing sizes, goals, interests and objectives and has been geographically cut in half with its best TV market surgically removed by the Big Ten. It's days are numbered, UMD got out ahead and doesn't have to concern itself with the ACC's problems . If the administration didn't take the Big Ten offer they would have to be nuts.


This is fantasy. The notion that conference realignment is about anything other than football and TV money is patently ridiculous. Super universities? like minded and cooperative state flagship research giants? doubling the revenue of the athletic department is just bonus? LMAO. What turnip truck did you just fall off of? Football revenue is not the icing on the cake, it IS the cake. And the pie and cookies, too. It is the only point of any of this.

Also, to say that the ACC has morphed into the Big East reveals a complete lack of history. The Big East for much of its existence was a a group of schools of similar goals, interest, and objectives all clustered in the northeast--exactly what you are extolling about the current Big 10. The Big East morphed into something completely unrecognizable (and, as it happens, something that is looking a lot like doom) because some of its members started doing exactly what Maryland is doing--chasing after football money.

And can we please stop with the "B1G" nonsense. That is a marketing logo on a jersey where the G looks a little like the zero in the number 10. Like B10. Typewritten, it makes zero sense.

Well from what I have heard( not a Maryland/acc/big 10 connected person) the big 10 splits in research grant money between schools. The big 10 gets in to the DC market and Maryland gets the big 10 money.

[Anonymous]

UMDs research budget is huge. The money dwarfs the extra athletic income which is double the ACC. The board of regents voted unanimously to accept the Big Ten invitation since only an idiot or incompetent person would vote against it. Some regents were against the process and angry... But when they saw the reality of the advantages and the mind blowing projections they all voted for it.

[Anonymous]

Maryland has nothing in common with ACC schools
Boston College,Syracuse ,duke ,Miami , wake are all private schools.
Pitt i, VT, nc state , Florida state ,Georgia tech are all secondary state institutions , not the state flagship school.
Unc and UVA are state flagship schools but smaller liberal arts schools not good at STEM or research so very different.

The big ten ,, IU,ILL ,MINN,NEB,Mich,WISCONSIN,PSU,UMD, OSU, and RU

Are all exactly the same type schools as UMD.. Large state flagship research institutions.

[Anonymous]

Nice. But the real Big Ten schools are mostly a thousand miles away. Maryland has more in common with UVA, UNC, NC State, VA Tech, Mason, VCU and Pitt.

[Anonymous]

Loh and Britt Kirwin ran Iowa and Ohio State. They are intimately aware of the vast superiority of the Big 10 for UMD. The regents , even the ones who were mad about the process all voted for it.
The ACC will probably fall apart over the next ten years. UVA will be in the Big 10,

[Anonymous]

Unc will be in the southeast conference with like minded administrations .

[Anonymous]

Jeez I must be completely ignorant of colleges. What is BIG 10? Is this in reference to athletics or some kind of education or research consortium?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jeez I must be completely ignorant of colleges. What is BIG 10? Is this in reference to athletics or some kind of education or research consortium?

Hah! The Big 10 is a college football conference, but not the best one. It's all about football. All the other sports and the academics are just along for the ride.

[Anonymous]

The Big 10 wanted Maryland so all the other teams get at least one cupcake a year to make them bowl eligible.

Whatever sports Maryland still plays, after cutting most of their programs, are not going to be thrilled to be heading up to frigid and distant Ann Arbor in April when it is springtime in Carolina to get their butts kicked by a sports powerhouse.

On the plus side, maybe the Maryland students will have fewer chances to riot in the streets after winning a regular season conference basketball game.