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The University of Maryland is in serious negotiations to join the Big Ten Conference, sources told ESPN.com on Saturday.

If Maryland goes to the Big Ten, Rutgers of the Big East is expected to follow suit. The addition of Maryland and Rutgers would give the Big Ten 14 members as the league gears toward negotiations on a new media rights deal when its first-tier rights expire in 2017.

http://espn.go.com/college-football...hts-talks-join-big-ten-conference-sources-say

Go Gophers!!
 

Really? Maryland and Rutgers? Does that get ANYONE excited at ALL? I don't care about attracting the east coast media - with teams like that it won't happen anyway. Sorry but I look at the types of teams added to conferences over the past few years and we could/should absolutely do better.
 



RailBaronYarr said:
Really? Maryland and Rutgers? Does that get ANYONE excited at ALL? I don't care about attracting the east coast media - with teams like that it won't happen anyway. Sorry but I look at the types of teams added to conferences over the past few years and we could/should absolutely do better.
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This.
 



I think you will see the SEC star to creep more north and more west. This seems to be the new thing. Regional conferences mean nothing anymore. In five years the 6 BCS conferences will be down to four.
 

Obviously Jim Delany is trying to make the Big Ten a basketball conference
 

I don't mean to brag (okay, maybe I do), but this is the beginning of a scenario I predicted about three years ago.
In the next few years, college football will morph into two large "super conferences" that will have their own playoff system and champion.
Look for Ohio State, Michigan and perhaps Michigan State, Wisconsin and Nebraska to exit the Big 10 in the near future. More Marylands and Rutgers will join our conference to fill the void.
There's money to be made if the superpowers are playing each other every week, and don't think the NCAA won't take advantage of it.
I think it really sucks, but I believe it's going to happen.
Might as well just make it a pro league
 



Maryland has good potential and good markets. I don't get Rutgers for the life of me, its New Jersey and you try to put a toe in NYC? Should've just invited Syracuse if they wanted New York.
 

Reusse tweet: "If Big Ten becomes Mediocre 14, will the wussy coaches sign on for nine conference games? We know Country Jer will vote no."

Go Gophers!!
 

Doogie tweet: I'd like to see Teague petition to move to the Leaders division. Let Maryland/Rutgers occupy the Legends. Geography matters little. #gophers

Go Gophers!!
 

CP Gopher said:
I don't mean to brag (okay, maybe I do), but this is the beginning of a scenario I predicted about three years ago.
In the next few years, college football will morph into two large "super conferences" that will have their own playoff system and champion.
Look for Ohio State, Michigan and perhaps Michigan State, Wisconsin and Nebraska to exit the Big 10 in the near future. More Marylands and Rutgers will join our conference to fill the void.
There's money to be made if the superpowers are playing each other every week, and don't think the NCAA won't take advantage of it.
I think it really sucks, but I believe it's going to happen.
Might as well just make it a pro league
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Ummm... no. Where would OSU and Michigan go? This prediction is so random...
 




>'.'< said:
Ummm... no. Where would OSU and Michigan go? This prediction is so random...
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To one of two "superconferences" with the rest of the elites (Alabama, Florida, USC, Oregon, Texas, LSU, etc.).
This is the direction major college football is headed. To an NFL-type league for about 30 schools.
 

CP Gopher said:
To one of two "superconferences" with the rest of the elites (Alabama, Florida, USC, Oregon, Texas, LSU, etc.).
This is the direction major college football is headed. To an NFL-type league for about 30 schools.
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No. Just no.
 

CP Gopher said:
To one of two "superconferences" with the rest of the elites (Alabama, Florida, USC, Oregon, Texas, LSU, etc.).
This is the direction major college football is headed. To an NFL-type league for about 30 schools.
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Wow, thanks for the laugh!
 

46Gophers said:
Wow, thanks for the laugh!
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Well....many years ago the idea that Penn State and Nebraska would join our conference was laughed at as well.
A Big Ten hockey conference was considered far-fetched.
Missouri and Texas A&M in the SEC?
Syracuse in the ACC?
Yeah, the idea of a superconference is completely outlandish.
 

CP Gopher said:
Well....many years ago the idea that Penn State and Nebraska would join our conference was laughed at as well.
A Big Ten hockey conference was considered far-fetched.
Missouri and Texas A&M in the SEC?
Syracuse in the ACC?
Yeah, the idea of a superconference is completely outlandish.
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Yes, it is. College sports is more than football.
 


Ski U Mah Gopher said:
Yes, it is. College sports is more than football.
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I would respectfully argue that college football has become its own entity, and is separating itself from tradtional college athletic programs.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
 


Bring them in, and the money they will also bring. The whole thing is about money anyway, so Go4 the money.

by doing things like this, the monopoly called the NCAA is gonna be dead meat.
 

CP Gopher said:
I would respectfully argue that college football has become its own entity, and is separating itself from tradtional college athletic programs.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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You're going off the rails with the idea that all the helmet schools would join the same league.
 

CP Gopher said:
I would respectfully argue that college football has become its own entity, and is separating itself from tradtional college athletic programs.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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I would agree that all the recent conference moves have been largely football focused, particularly with regards to media and recruiting markets. Nebraska wasn't added for any sport but football. A&M was football. Missouri was the necessary second and had the advantage of being decent at basketball. Notre Dame joined the ACC in everything BUT football (meaning they clearly value the $ and notoriety they get in football and want ACC for basketball prominence only).

I would also agree that if we're even considering Maryland/Rutgers that it could easily become a 4 major conference sport. PAC, (former) Big12, Big Ten, and SEC, with the SEC/B10 largely taking up the east coast schools and the Big12 taking the remainder of them like WVU. It's not that outrageous to consider. And I would be sad.
 


I think cp gopher isn't far off. Eventually the name schools will get tired of sharing $ with the loser programs. Consolidation is inevitable.
 


Neither of these schools should be admitted to the BigTen. Additions to the conference should be no-brainers. Penn State: no brainer. Nebraska: no brainer. Even with the whole JoePa thing, PSU is still a no-brainer.

Maryland is a huge risk, Rutgers is an even bigger risk.

I vote no. Do NOT dilute the league.
 

Grant said:
I think cp gopher isn't far off. Eventually the name schools will get tired of sharing $ with the loser programs. Consolidation is inevitable.
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You do realize that the big programs need the so-called "loser" programs to perpetuate their "greatness".

A "super" conference, like every conference, would eventually also have traditional "loser" and "winner" programs too.
 

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