It's all about the Big Ten Network

wundergrape

wundergrape

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For those of you scratching your heads about Rutgers and Maryland joining our conference, it comes down to three things: TV revenue, TV revenue, and TV revenue.

Adding these two teams gets the network up in three of the nine largest tv markets in the country: New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.

That's all this is about, and it's all this has ever been about.
 
True that. Maryland? I am as excited to bring them into our conference as I am about a case of the herpes or a chancre on my dong. Geez, lets just play purdont twice and call it a day already.
 
Like usual Delaney is one step ahead of everyone else. And he very well could have started the demise of the ACC with this move.
 
I give him big credit for adding instant replay, adding the idiots to our west, the big ten network and maybe he is smarter than all of us with this expansion. On first glance though, Maryland? Snoozer ville here
 
Nobody in NJ cares about Rutgers, and nobody in Maryland cares about Maryland. Those are pro team states. See, for example, Minnesota and the University of Colorado.

Delany must have mad cow disease. What an @$$hole.
 
HawkeyeMHA said:
I give him big credit for adding instant replay, adding the idiots to our west, the big ten network and maybe he is smarter than all of us with this expansion. On first glance though, Maryland? Snoozer ville here
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Once again, this is all about money. To that end, with about 50 million new cable subscribers (I'll guessing here) waiting in the wings, this is an unmitigated coup of monumental proportions - provided Rutgers joins up.

Also, this has always, ALWAYS, been about Rutgers. The question was who was going to come with them - Notre Dame or Maryland?
 
ThunderHawk said:
Nobody in NJ cares about Rutgers, and nobody in Maryland cares about Maryland. Those are pro team states. See, for example, Minnesota and the University of Colorado.

Delany must have mad cow disease. What an @$$hole.
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It doesn't matter if they care about Rutgers. It matters if they get the Big Ten Network as part of their basic cable package.
 
These matchups do not excite me either but the idea of Iowa getting up to 11 million more per year in tv revenue excites me. Perhaps they can use some of that money to buyout................oops...nvm.
 
I wish delaney massive, explosive diarrhea that splashes up against his buttocks leaving his tight whitey fruit of the looms smelly for the entire day.
 
HawkeyeMHA said:
I wish delaney massive, explosive diarrhea that splashes up against his buttocks leaving his tight whitey fruit of the looms smelly for the entire day.
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Kind of like my son had this weekend?

I like the way you think. I also wish this for Delany.
 
The ultimate irony here, is that while you guys complain about the decision, Rutgers is busy putting together a season that would almost certainly place them in this year's Big Ten Championship game.

Also, C. Vivian Stringer gets to come home once a year. Gotta love that.
 
I think you also have to look at what this does to the landscape of college football. The end game is 16 teams Super conferences, no matter if you like it or not. The Big12 will make a run at Clemson and Florida St. If those two leave, the ACC falls apart, and therefore the deal with Notre Dame falls apart. The endgame for Delany on all of this is forcing Notre Dame into the Big10. Once the ACC is demolished, Notre Dame will have the choose between the Big12 and the Big10 (no way they go to the SEC)
 
If it means we play Maryland or Rutgers every 3 or for years instead of going to Ames every other year, I am all for it. With this many teams the 4 non conference games are going down to at least 3, so essentially we are adding a game against a conference team in place of either the ISU game or a game against Directional Tech A&M.
 
deanvogs said:
I think you also have to look at what this does to the landscape of college football. The end game is 16 teams Super conferences, no matter if you like it or not. The Big12 will make a run at Clemson and Florida St. If those two leave, the ACC falls apart, and therefore the deal with Notre Dame falls apart. The endgame for Delany on all of this is forcing Notre Dame into the Big10. Once the ACC is demolished, Notre Dame will have the choose between the Big12 and the Big10 (no way they go to the SEC)
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This is my thought exactly, this is more of a way to blowup the ACC than anything. If it comes down to the superconferences Notre Dame has to join one or get left behind, they won't have enough games to schedule against quality opponents because no one will schedule them when already playing 9 or 10 BCS opponents in conference.
 
wundergrape said:
It doesn't matter if they care about Rutgers. It matters if they get the Big Ten Network as part of their basic cable package.
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That's what I thought. Big metro areas generally give two turds about the college scene, esp if it is Rutgurrz or Mary land.
 
MeatMan said:
good ESPN article here about the role of "footprint" and market size in regards to expansion.

Big Ten shores up a weakness with latest expansion -- college football - ESPN

and while it is not an addition for competitiveness, it is an aggressive tactic for challenging the ACC for market. while i'm not a fan of this, i fully understand it. it is all about the money, plus these are high level academic schools, so a natural fit for that.
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Gee I wonder who mentioned this earlier:

But when it fell apart, and the ACC formed its own alliance with Notre Dame, and geography began to work against the Big Ten, Delany decided he couldn't sit on his hands. In essence, it had become a zero-sum game.
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I tell ya the timing of this seems to have something to do with Notre Dame just being added to the ACC.
 
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