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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.

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