Maryland to Big Ten

First Chief Illiniwek, now this.

 

I'll be DAMNED if I'm going to sit back and let someone fuck with the tradition that is the Legends and Leaders division!

 

If they ever moved Nebraska out of the Legends division, I wouldn't know what to do with myself.

 

+1 billion

All this conference realignment BS should be called for what it really is: chasing the almighty dollar, on the backs of an unpaid labor force.

I never thought I'd say this, but I now prefer pro sports over college. There is too much hypocrisy in the NC$$ and these institutions of "higher learning."

 

So Mr. Swofford, your big plan to solidify the ACC was to add Syracuse and Pitt and bend over for Notre Dame, but in doing so you frustrated a founding member of the league to the point it decided to bail. And if Maryland gets away with no or minimal exit fee Georgia Tech, Florida State, Clemson and who knows which other schools could be next.


Good work.

 

There's a definite "had it comin" element for the ACC here. They sort of pioneered the whole trend of stealing other conference's more desirable members with their raids on the Big East over the years. Guess they never figured a bigger fish might seize on the idea and do the same to them.

 

Sooo...

UMass to the Big East?

 

I would assume. UConn to the ACC. UMass to the Big East.

But, honestly, how many more blows can the Big East sustain? Hell, teams are now trying to get back into the Mountain West rather than having to be part of the Big East. I think losing Rutgers was the final straw, IF the final straw hadn't already been drawn when they lost Syracuse, WV and Pitt. Nobody's taking the BE seriously as a major conference again.

 

Goddamit, just when I had finally gotten to remember that one division was "The M's, the N's and Iowa" and the other was "WOPPII." Hell, that's what they just ought to call the divisions. Put Maryland in the M-N-Iowa Division and Rutgers in the WOPPIIR division and have it sponsored by Burger King (by pronouncing it "Whopper").

 

So if the ACC was to totally raid the Big East and take Louisville and Cincinnati in addition to UConn in order to get to 16 schools, do they still need Notre Dame for football scheduling purposes?

 

I wonder how the day went in the Boise State athletic department...

"Well, we'll be in the Big East next year. Things are looking up for us because we won't have to go 12-0 anymore to get the big bowl money. We might even be able to get away with being 8-4....

"What's that you say? The new system puts the Big East in the same group with the MAC and Sun Belt. Well, hell....

"Sorry, come again? Rutgers just went to the Big 10? Well, okay, who's left? Louisville, OK. Cincinnati, OK. Navy? Um... Temple? Shit.

"What's the number for the Mountain West office again? Switch it to my desk when you get through."