How it went down for MD to B1G

[B1GEast]

Sorry if this was posted before, didn't see it here, very interesting read.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...5da16c-3fd0-11e2-ae43-cf491b837f7b_story.html

Last summer, the ACC moved to take two more schools — Syracuse and Pittsburgh — from the Big East. On Sept. 12, it voted to add Notre Dame — long presumed to be in the sights of the Big Ten — in all sports but football. Some Big Ten athletic directors believed Delany grew wary that the ACC would move to grab Rutgers and Connecticut, two Big East schools who provided some semblance of an entry into the New York media market, an unclaimed territory for college sports.

 

[CTGoonie]

Hmmmm. This does add credence to the theory that Uconn has been told they will be in the B1G and that is why the ACC went with UL. Can't wait for Husky Fan Dan to chime in.

 

[Willy Gee]

NY is an "unclaimed territory for college sports"? The Syracuse folks won't like hearing that. Morever, if it is true that the market is unclaimed, the ACC or Big 10 should qucikly move to claim what is left of it.

 

[B1GEast]

NY is an "unclaimed territory for college sports"? The Syracuse folks won't like hearing that. Morever, if it is true that the market is unclaimed, the ACC or Big 10 should qucikly move to claim what is left of it.

Syracuse is nowhere near metro ny. They might as well be in Canada.

 

[freescooter]

Syracuse is nowhere near metro ny. They might as well be in Canada.

I thought they were.

 

[Willy Gee]

i know. i was trying to be ironic.

 

[B1GEast]

i know. i was trying to be ironic.

I know you were, I was just emphasizing you point.

 

[Willy Gee]

oops. then my last post was moronic. sorry.

 

[hexlub]

i know. i was trying to be ironic.

Like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife?

 

[B1GEast]

oops. then my last post was moronic. sorry.

No it wasn't willie, no worries.

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

Hmmmm. This does add credence to the theory that Uconn has been told they will be in the B1G and that is why the ACC went with UL. Can't wait for Husky Fan Dan to chime in.

Just like the reports that right after the SyraPitt departures, Herbst and UConn were assured that they were guaranteed an ACC invite with the next expansion. We all know how that worked out.

 

[Whale22]

Biggest takeaway from that article in my eyes was MD talking in the 10s of millions...30 million this year possibly 40 million that year....we're looking at 2 million a year? ...Just sad and more importantly scary ....no way we can compete with the big boys at $2 mill a year....nevermind football....entire athletic program will whither away over time.....

 

[hexlub]

He said 'went down.' huh huh

 

[pj]

Hmmmm. This does add credence to the theory that Uconn has been told they will be in the B1G and that is why the ACC went with UL. Can't wait for Husky Fan Dan to chime in.

I don't think UConn has been guaranteed anything. UConn has undoubtedly been in contact with the B1G and knows what their criteria are, so knows what the school has to do to be attractive to them. I think the school is trying to do everything it can to maximize its value. We will say if realignment falls our way.

I do think UConn was a difficult negotiation for the ACC and they wanted to move fast and Louisville was ready to sign on the dotted line. So Louisville rose in attractiveness.

 

[jostar1]

Found this article from March 1, 2012 where Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN predicted it:

Of all the major conferences, the ACC has been the most aggressive when it comes to adding membership. It has treated the Big East as its personal minor league system, calling up Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College in the early-to-mid-2000s. In its most recent raid of the Big East, the ACC adopted Syracuse and Pittsburgh.
So what's to stop ACC commissioner John Swofford from making another run at the Big East in the next 2-4 years, this time inviting Rutgers and Connecticut? After all, 16 is the magic membership number, right?
Answer: absolutely nothing.

Meanwhile, if you're Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, an ACC romancing of UConn and Rutgers creates an instant turf war. Look at a map. Big Ten member Penn State would become encircled and isolated by the ACC: Syracuse to the north, Pitt to the west, UConn, Rutgers and Boston College to the east and Maryland to the immediate south. Prime TV and recruiting markets would be in jeopardy.
Delany is no dummy. He wouldn't cede those markets. I could see him sending in a Big Ten Special Forces unit to extract Rutgers from the ACC's possible grasp and Maryland from the ACC altogether. Rutgers hasn't made much of a secret of its fondness for the Big Ten. And who knows -- maybe Maryland is ready for a change too. And if not Maryland, maybe Georgia Tech?
That would give the Big Ten 14 members and a strong presence in Pennsylvania, the mid-Atlantic states and the New York/New Jersey areas. But if 16 is the number that counts, why stop there?

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7633311/next-round-realignment-renew-rivalries

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Syracuse is nowhere near metro ny. They might as well be in Canada.

I take it that you've never been (to Canada or Syracuse), it is very difficult to tell the difference.

 

[uconnell]

Canada has Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, very, very nice cities. Syracuse not so much (being kind).

 

[CL82]

Loh didn’t know it, but the Big Ten also was negotiating a deal to bring in Rutgers that would phase the Scarlet Knights into the conference over time.
“We expect to deliver incremental value,” said Pernetti, the Rutgers AD. “So you should expect to grow incrementally.”
The Big Ten’s desire was to have new members earn a gradually larger piece of the revenue over a six-year period. But Maryland felt its stability in the ACC offered more bargaining leverage than Rutgers had in the crumbling Big East.

By Thursday morning, when the eight members of the Board of Regents’ finance committee assembled for a previously scheduled meeting at the University of Maryland University College conference center, several regents learned of the potential plan for the first time. “My first reaction was shock,” said Frank Kelly, the chair of the finance committee.
From the perspective of some regents and others intimately involved, the pace of the negotiations seemed frantic. But others were appeased when they heard whom Loh had been speaking with to gather support, how much research had been done and what the move to the Big Ten could provide Maryland.