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[quote=Anonymous]To answer the question.  A metric shit-ton.  Maryland wasn't brought in to the Big 10 to strengthen the conference from a football perspective.  From a sports perspective, Maryland adds value across the board otherwise.  Strong basketball (women and men).  Made the Big 10 into a viable mens lacrosse conference (and made the womens lacrosse conference a 2 trick pony).  Maryland won 5 titles each of the first three years in the big 10 across all sports.  Aside from the Covid years, Maryland regularly wins 3 to 5 titles per year and has virtually owned lacrosse (on the mens side all but 1 of the regular season championships and half of the conference tournament championships; on the womens side, all but two tournament championships and all but one regular season).  Across all sports with a championship sponsored by the NCAA (i.e., not football and excluding early lacrosse), Maryland has won more national titles than any current big 10 school (excluding UCLA and USC) other than Penn State and Michigan.  The womens lacrosse team alone has won as many national championships than the entire athletics programs across Northwestern, Purdue and Rutgers COMBINED.  For the 2021-22 year, Maryland is second among Big 10 schools in both the mens and womens rankings and is the only Big 10 school in the top 10 of both rankings.

Aside from that, Maryland brings strong across the board academics, is a major research institution and (not for nothing) the DC/Baltimore media market.  It also is a recruiting hot bed for a number of sports (including lacrosse, basketball and, to a somewhat lesser extent, football).

The 2014 expansion was a win-win for the conference and the institution.  I, for one, can't wait to watch the ACC collapse and the blue blood Carolina schools (Dook in particular) struggle to find a home.  [/quote]

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