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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UMD football is bad. They can’t fill the stadium unless it’s filled with Penn State fans.[/quote]

Or Michigan fans. We like that we get a Michigan game locally every other year, but it’s sort of pathetic that the stadium ends up being 90% Michigan fans. They even played Mr. Brightside for us this past season, after Michigan beat Maryland 59-18.

[b]Honestly, though, everyone just laughs at Maryland and Rutgers. No one considers them real Big Ten schools. The core of the Big Ten are the midwestern schools. [/b]

When it comes to the CA schools, everyone is just waiting for those CA kids to have to play their first slate of Big Ten conference play, during midwestern winters. Good luck playing Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan, OSU, Sparty, etc. in October and November, guys! Half those games will be away for them, and away will mean cold as all heck, and potentially a blizzard game or two thrown in there.

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The whole paradigm is rapidly shifting. The SEC and B1G are moving to a place where underperforming schools for football could get jettisoned from the conference. Schools like UMD and Rutgers with mediocre/poor football programs (other sports don’t matter) and weak branding shouldn’t just assume they’re going to reap in millions of dollars like Michigan and UCLA and continue offering a substandard product.[/quote]

You don’t get it

UMD and Rutgers brought in the #1 and #4 media markets and increased every schools payout by a huge amount. They are the most valuable members and the first to be added by any conference. The B1G asked UMD to join and paid for travel expenses plus the ACC penalty for leaving. Unc and Uva are on their knees begging to join but would cut into every members 100 million cut because they don’t bring in that much.

The ones that first cut out would be Nebraska, Purdue, Michigan State, Northwestern. The most valuable members are UCLA, Illinois, Maryland and Rutgers.

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I'm not PP. I sort of agree with you, in that you recognize the value of access to media markets. But, I think you undervalue having compelling content to put into those markets. One could create a conference of GW, DePaul, St. John's and nobody would care. I think Michigan, OSU, Wisconsin, maybe MSU, Purdue are the most valuable members. But, I agree that UMD and Rutgers brought value. I wonder about schools that bring neither, like IU.[/quote]

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