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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And, finally, I think it's quite telling that you're all football fans who don't let your sons actually play the game. [/quote]
NP...this is a thread about UMD EA. What does this even mean? Skimmed and see no mention of FB. No idea who's a fan and whether or not their kid participates. Perhaps it's a metaphor?[/quote]

Perhaps you missed it. [b]Apparently UMD is in the "Top Ten" for some football league or whatever.[/b] It's the best "academic" one, another poster added excitedly.

No, I don't know what that means either.

I continue to think it's a lovely school... with serious issues. Like putting its freshmen in night school. Like not accepting some of Maryland's top students. Like having its fanbase include a lot of people who don't see why their kids should ever leave Maryland, even for five seconds. The crime and the traffic don't bother me nearly as much--any big school has stuff like that. 
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Someone tried to explain this to you upthread. I say this kindly -  you should really understand this, even if you don’t care about sports, just so you don’t sound ignorant in person.

Schools are divided into athletic conferences.  The name of the athletic conference UMD belongs to is called the Big 10.  That has nothing to do with being the top or best of anything.  Even if all of the Big 10 schools are terrible at sports in a given year, the name and membership don’t change. Some are named by the number of members they had when they were created, and some are named geographically. Other athletic conferences are the Big 12, Pac 10, Southeastern, etc. [/quote]

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