ESPN sources reporting Maryland ACCEPTS big ten invite. Rutgers voting tomorrow

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FWIW, they can't "accept" the invite because they haven't been extended one yet. What will happen is, the B1G schools will meet and decide to extend an invitation to Maryland (or not) based on their application for membership.
 

NO. This sucks. But since it is happening, lets play Maryland NEXT year and settle this Edsall vs. Kill thing once and for all! ha! :)
 


I'm excited about Maryland for the basketball side. Will be very cool having them in that regard.

Not sure how much sense this makes for football.

Felt the opposite way regarding Nebraska though although their location makes much more sense.
 

Gopher07 said:
FWIW, they can't "accept" the invite because they haven't been extended one yet. What will happen is, the B1G schools will meet and decide to extend an invitation to Maryland (or not) based on their application for membership.
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semantics. the point is the same. was just letting people know what espn is reporting this morning. this is far bigger news to university of minnesota fans than any of this stupid a.j. barker nonsense.
 

scher215 said:
I'm excited about Maryland for the basketball side. Will be very cool having them in that regard.

Not sure how much sense this makes for football.

Felt the opposite way regarding Nebraska though although their location makes much more sense.
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Maryland has been medicore for the better part of the last decade. Two decent seasons in the past 10 years.
 

Can't stay with the name Big Ten any longer--outdated

The new conference name will be BFC(Big effing Conference)
 




Jim Delany is on a rampage to destroy Notre Dame's new affiliation, I'm sure of it.
 

Gopher07 said:
FWIW, they can't "accept" the invite because they haven't been extended one yet. What will happen is, the B1G schools will meet and decide to extend an invitation to Maryland (or not) based on their application for membership.
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My understanding is that the Maryland Board of Regents would not have taken this morning's vote without prior assurances from the Big Ten that they will get the necessary votes for admittance to the conference.
 

Not sure why so many people seem to be against this. Maryland, although not very good in football, will be great for the conference on the basketball side and it's not like Rutgers is a terrible football school, and who knows how they will build off of the successful season they are having. Also, Rutgers has the potential to bring the NY/NJ media market i.e. the biggest market in the country. (This is obviously assuming Rutgers follows)
 





It's a Pig Man! said:
Not sure why so many people seem to be against this. Maryland, although not very good in football, will be great for the conference on the basketball side and it's not like Rutgers is a terrible football school, and who knows how they will build off of the successful season they are having. Also, Rutgers has the potential to bring the NY/NJ media market i.e. the biggest market in the country. (This is obviously assuming Rutgers follows)
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From a non-athletic standpoint as well, this move makes a lot of sense. Maryland is a solid academic school and the CIC will love having them as a new member.

Frankly, I don't mind it even from an athletic standpoint. More places for me to visit, the old vestiges of college football will die at some point, and I'd like for the B1G to be at the forefront rather than left in the dust.
 

The Big Ten went from adding only elite teams like Penn State and Nebraska to adding for the sake of adding. BOOOOOO!!!!
 


One columnist made the point how much would Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska playing at Rutgers help lift the Knights profile in the NYC area. Maybe they don't "care" about college football because they are so far removed from what makes it great.

I prefer the decimate Notre Dame's new conference theory better.
 

Maybe because we sit on the western edge of the conference, but I would rather see Kansas instead of Rutgers.

Will this mean one extra conference game in Football?
 


Bo Darville said:
Are we positive about Rutgers? According to Inside Maryland Sports:

"Who could join Maryland? Rutgers has been widely reported as being most likely to join Maryland in the Big 10. Sources also told IMS Georgia Tech would like to join. But we've also been told that the top remaining targets are North Carolina and Virginia."

http://maryland.247sports.com/Article/Will-Maryland-Leave-the-ACC-for-the-Big-10-102131
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UVa makes sense for TV, but not if Maryland is the other team. They both bring DC. All UVa adds is Richmond/Hampton Roads. Not enough to justify it. GT would make more sense than Rutgers as it adds Atlanta. I don't buy the Rutgers adds NYC line. PSU is probably already more popular in NYC than Rutgers.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Oh please let it be North Carolina....:clap:
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well, perhaps coach kill and AD teague knew something that us message board heroes and the media "smart guys" did not??? and they had to play their cards the way they did because of everything that is about to go down conference wise with the acc & big ten. one plausible theory might be that the big ten asked minnesota to unilaterally cancel in the way they did so as to not "let the cat out of the bag" and is reimbursing the U of M the $800K on the back end.
 

This couldn't come on a better day. The local story may not even show up as a blurb on ESPN college football today.
 

howeda7 said:
UVa makes sense for TV, but not if Maryland is the other team. They both bring DC. All UVa adds is Richmond/Hampton Roads. Not enough to justify it. GT would make more sense than Rutgers as it adds Atlanta. I don't buy the Rutgers adds NYC line. PSU is probably already more popular in NYC than Rutgers.
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No confederate states in the Big Ten, please.
 

badgergopher said:
This couldn't come on a better day. The local story may not even show up as a blurb on ESPN college football today.
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It's already one of the main headlines on the ESPN.com page. Any notion that this story would remain only local was completely false, it's national news.
 

badgergopher said:
This couldn't come on a better day. The local story may not even show up as a blurb on ESPN college football today.
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agreed. looks like poor timing for the release of his petulant tirade by a.j. barker and his P.R. family advisers. such a bummer you are not going to get the full bang for your buck that you wanted a.j. :rolleyes:
 

The B1G expansion was the lead story on the 11am SportsCenter. If the wheels of realignment kick in to high gear this thing is going to get buried.
 

It's a Pig Man! said:
It's already one of the main headlines on the ESPN.com page. Any notion that this story would remain only local was completely false, it's national news.
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not necessarily. there are things on the espn.com headline section all the time that don't necessarily gain enough traction to become "national" stories. with the maryland and rutgers announcements today & tomorrow this whiney barker tantrum won't even get it's 15 minutes......more like 4 or 5 minutes.
 

westcoastgopher11 said:
The B1G expansion was the lead story on the 11am SportsCenter. If the wheels of realignment kick in to high gear this thing is going to get buried.
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and much to the chagrin of U of M hating idiot columnists like souhan, reusse, powers.
 

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