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Anonymous wrote:UMD football is bad. They can’t fill the stadium unless it’s filled with Penn State fans.

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.

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.

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.

Hilariously UMD has as many football national championships as Michigan in the NCAA era. Only one less than Penn State. Maybe UMD is smart just to take the money and it’s alumni be distracted by more fruitful interests than packing in and watching non championship nonsense.

Stop trying to make UMD Football happen. It’s not going to happen.

What other “fruitful interests” does UMD invest in that Michigan doesn’t? I’ll wait.

Something other than wasting entire days watching teams that don’t win more than 1 national championship over 70 years like Michigan and Maryland. Maybe go to the Smithsonian or Go to the beach or Annapolis if you go to UMD or go drive around Detroit if you go to Michigan.

People actually turn on their televisions to see Michigan play. Michigan has a huge fan base even when they don’t win national championships. Many decades passed before the Cubs won a World Series, but people still tuned in to watch. Who cares about MD outside of the DMV?

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain the connection of athletic conference to research dollars?

The B1G has the CIC. A coalition of huge research institutions that collaborate on projects and form a synergy that brings in more money overall under the guise of “saving money”.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WDL5lineORE

Also students at all B1G schools can take classes at the other schools I believe.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD football is bad. They can’t fill the stadium unless it’s filled with Penn State fans.

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.

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.

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.

UMD has 1.5 championships since 1950.

When Michigan closes the gap with .5 more championships us smart fans who don’t waste their time on futility will watch.


Hilariously UMD has as many football national championships as Michigan in the NCAA era. Only one less than Penn State. Maybe UMD is smart just to take the money and it’s alumni be distracted by more fruitful interests than packing in and watching non championship nonsense.

Stop trying to make UMD Football happen. It’s not going to happen.

What other “fruitful interests” does UMD invest in that Michigan doesn’t? I’ll wait.

Something other than wasting entire days watching teams that don’t win more than 1 national championship over 70 years like Michigan and Maryland. Maybe go to the Smithsonian or Go to the beach or Annapolis if you go to UMD or go drive around Detroit if you go to Michigan.

People actually turn on their televisions to see Michigan play. Michigan has a huge fan base even when they don’t win national championships. Many decades passed before the Cubs won a World Series, but people still tuned in to watch. Who cares about MD outside of the DMV?

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Anonymous wrote:UMD football is bad. They can’t fill the stadium unless it’s filled with Penn State fans.

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.

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.

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.

Hilariously UMD has as many football national championships as Michigan in the NCAA era. Only one less than Penn State. Maybe UMD is smart just to take the money and it’s alumni be distracted by more fruitful interests than packing in and watching non championship nonsense.

Stop trying to make UMD Football happen. It’s not going to happen.

What other “fruitful interests” does UMD invest in that Michigan doesn’t? I’ll wait.

Something other than wasting entire days watching teams that don’t win more than 1 national championship over 70 years like Michigan and Maryland. Maybe go to the Smithsonian or Go to the beach or Annapolis if you go to UMD or go drive around Detroit if you go to Michigan.

Anonymous wrote:Over on Burnt Orange there is a substantial sentiment for wanting to back out of the SEC and join the B1G for more money and the prestige.

Holy Smokes that would be the end game. You can bet Florida would want in as well

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain the connection of athletic conference to research dollars?

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Anonymous wrote:Gravitational pull would seem to lead Clemson, Florida State, and Miami to the SEC, Arizona, ASU, Colorado, and Utah to the Big 12, and Oregon, Washington, Stanford, and Cal to the Big 10. Notre Dame is the question mark.

Alternative to all this is for PAC 12 to form a quick alliance with the ACC.

Please for the love of all that is good in the world: keep Notre Dame out of the Big Ten!! We don’t want them.

Lol. Your royal “we” is BS. The B1G has an open invitation to ND.

Do you know anything about the B1G? We all hate the commissioner. I mean “we” in terms of all the fans.

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Anonymous wrote:The Big10 should absorb the ACC and the best pieces of the PAC12 and have three 10 team conferences.

East: ACC pieces plus Rutgers, Penn State
Central: Original Big10
West: Nebraska, USC, UCLA and the rest of the Pac12 pieces

Then, the conference name will make sense.

I could get behind that.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD football is bad. They can’t fill the stadium unless it’s filled with Penn State fans.

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.

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.

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.

Hilariously UMD has as many football national championships as Michigan in the NCAA era. Only one less than Penn State. Maybe UMD is smart just to take the money and it’s alumni be distracted by more fruitful interests than packing in and watching non championship nonsense.

Stop trying to make UMD Football happen. It’s not going to happen.

What other “fruitful interests” does UMD invest in that Michigan doesn’t? I’ll wait.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD football is bad. They can’t fill the stadium unless it’s filled with Penn State fans.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:The Big10 should absorb the ACC and the best pieces of the PAC12 and have three 10 team conferences.

East: ACC pieces plus Rutgers, Penn State
Central: Original Big10
West: Nebraska, USC, UCLA and the rest of the Pac12 pieces

Then, the conference name will make sense.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD football is bad. They can’t fill the stadium unless it’s filled with Penn State fans.

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.

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.

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.

Hilariously UMD has as many football national championships as Michigan in the NCAA era. Only one less than Penn State. Maybe UMD is smart just to take the money and it’s alumni be distracted by more fruitful interests than packing in and watching non championship nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:Gravitational pull would seem to lead Clemson, Florida State, and Miami to the SEC, Arizona, ASU, Colorado, and Utah to the Big 12, and Oregon, Washington, Stanford, and Cal to the Big 10. Notre Dame is the question mark.

Alternative to all this is for PAC 12 to form a quick alliance with the ACC.

Please for the love of all that is good in the world: keep Notre Dame out of the Big Ten!! We don’t want them.

Lol. Your royal “we” is BS. The B1G has an open invitation to ND.