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

If Maryland goes from the ACC 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
 

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I guess the CONFERENCES are trying to leverage power v. the NCAA. Why stop @ 14 in the Big Ten...add 86 more & call it the "Big 100." Then there wouldn't be an NCAA...
 
Darn you beat me too it! I was going to say why not just put every team into one conference and call it a day.
 
bent20 said:
Rutgers and Maryland? Meh.
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It's about TV market entry; the ability to push the BTN from mid-tier cable/satellite packages to basic cable/satellite packages.

Rutgers puts you into the NY and Philly markets (20+M; Maryland into Baltimore and Wash, DC (5+M)
 

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Ah, the Scarlet Knights on the banks of the Raritan. Rutgers is home to a great history department and a well named student union. I’m biased in regard to the history department as that’s where I did my graduate work. The student union naming took some demonstrating and negotiating. We marched to have it named after the greatest player and man to put on a Rutgers football jersey, Paul Robeson. By the time I left the New Brunswick campus, we only managed to get the music room in the Union christened with the Robeson name. (Partially fitting given Paul Robeson’s world-wide renown as a singer.) Renaming of the entire Union came long after I had left the scene.

As many on this Forum probably know, football at Rutgers has a long history. In 1869 Rutgers played the very first intercollegiate football game against their instate nemesis, Princeton U.. I attended the Centennial replay of that game. The gridiron warriors in that historical replay (frat boys and volunteers, no scholarship recruits, all students first, last and always) were in period uniforms and helmets. They looked more Mad Max than Big 14. Several were carried off the field, injured Knights and Tigers who were probably muttering to themselves: What the hell was I thinking?

It’s time to mutter again. So now Rutgers moves into the Big [9, 10, 11, 12, 13] 14, Bingo!$! Conference. Good luck, Knights. Hope you can pay off your debt, get out of athletics arms race and give those scholarships to history majors.

. . . The added income from playing in an elite conference with its own television network could not only reduce the reported $28 million annual subsidy the Rutgers athletic department receives from the university, . . .
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What side of the fence were you seated back in '78 when ISU/Bird met Rutgers/Bailey in the N.I.T.?:meditate:
 
BankShot said:
What side of the fence were you seated back in '78 when ISU/Bird met Rutgers/Bailey in the N.I.T.?:meditate:
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Come on Bankshot, you KNOW I drank the Birdmania koolaid to the dregs. It was only while sitting on the university athletics committee and being stonewalled by the AD and administration when I asked for data on graduation rates of athletes that I came out of my stupor, started researching and reading on the subject, that I turned sour but a whole lot smarter on college sports.

Happy Thanksgiving, Bankshot. I always read and appreciate your posts--though some are beyond my limited sports knowledge.
 

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