Comments on: Terps and the little guy

By: Old blue

Old blue — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:49:13 +0000

I hope the Big Whatever (10,12,14) forces the Terps to lose those awful uniforms and helmets.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:48:32 +0000

Here is some food: taco.

By: tytan200

tytan200 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:22:26 +0000

Crooked road……better get some coffee, stay up and start writing. I think you are going to be very busy in the near future digging up nasty things to say about other teams as they leave the ACC.

Not a Maryland fan here, but gee, give it a rest, let the Terps move on.

By: crooked road

crooked road — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:56:33 +0000

Here’s some food for thought that’s been ignored by the local media…

http://www.dailypress.com/sports/colleges/virginia-tech/dp-spt-feature-tech-game-week-presser-1121-20121120,0,4093320.story

Especially when you consider the source, it will be one of the components of what will continue happening in January.

By: crooked road

crooked road — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:11:09 +0000

A few thoughts about the $50 million exit fee. The assumption that Maryland won’t have to pay it because they didn’t vote for it is similar to assuming – key that word – assuming that if you vote against a politician, he doesn’t govern you politically. Also, keep this in mind – regardless of the final fee, all of that money that folks assume Kevin Plank is going to foot could have been applied to athletic department infrastructure like renovation to Byrd Stadium, funding of all those non-revenue sports that Maryland supposedly had zero funding for, but now they have $20-50 million to fund even higher expense now for those non-revenue sports. How many non-revenue sports would be fully funded for a decade by $20-50 million?

Think about that, Terps, while you try to justify your inability to financially manage your sports for the last several years and predictably the next several years…

By: crooked road

crooked road — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:01:46 +0000

Here’s how quickly Maryland becomes irrelevant in the B1G, as soon as they’re an official member and the BTN contracts are finalized. Here’s why – check out the alum numbers from existing B1G members in the marketplace they just secured.

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/65858/big-ten-biggest-expansion-gamble-is-itself

The next countdown will be on how quickly Maryland manages to waste their newfound financial booty & be right back in the financial hole they’ve been for years & years & years & years. I’m sticking with the over/under at five years…

By: crooked road

crooked road — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:43:33 +0000

Let’s just be clear here – adding WVU to the ACC is like informing your parents you’re engaged to a stripper, and want her to keep her night job. Or even worse, her day job.

East Carolina will never pass the approval of the Big Four NC schools. Ever. Navy has little to offer the ACC, except in non-revenue sports, which is the LAST thing the ACC needs, more invisible sport power.

To reiterate, what the B1G adds by accepting UMd & Rutgers is potentially $150-200 million in annual revenue for the BTN, meaning an additional $10-15 million per team above the already estimated $25 million in revenue they receive.

One more comment about the ‘loss’ of two guaranteed home & away games against both UNC & Duke every season? Correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s been gone for about 8 years now, right? When will the weeping end over that? The Hokies haven’t had that guarantee since joining the ACC.

As for the pretend ‘rivalry’ between Maryland & UNC/Duke, yeah, back in the 70′s it was something, but since then, Maryland has been like every other ACC school – pretending they have a rivalry with those two, when the only rivalry is between the two. Maryland has managed to win ACC basketball titles in 1958, 1984, & 2004. They’ve managed to win the football crown exactly once in the last 25 years. So, let’s be honest and admit they’ve been pretty irrelevant for decades. It hurts to lose them, greatly so. But the truth is, the whining by Terps about not being respected or being treated as equals of UNC & Duke in hoops are pretty clearly looking out of terp glasses.

What will the bottom line be? Like I said before – five years from now the Terps will be flat broke & busted, despite being in the most profitable conference in the nation. They’ll be equally irrelevant, like they’ve been for decades. Only now, they’ll have zero water cooler talk, they’ll have no real rivals, they’ll have pitiful attendance, even worse than now.

Have fun with that, Terps. The blame lies in the mirror.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:36:41 +0000

Aaron – if your mom (or dad) cares to share thoughts on this with us, I’d love to hear them.

By: Donald

Donald — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:07:08 +0000

Honestly, A-Mac (God, I miss BDST), if Maryland were still getting home-and-home series against UNC and Duke, I don’t think they would even consider making this move.

By: Aaron McFarling

Aaron McFarling — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:00:18 +0000

Katie — You sound a lot like my parents, who are football season ticket holders. They hated the Ralph thing and hate this even more. Not sure if it’s enough to get them to stop going, but it could be.

Just imagine the outcry if the Terps were still playing home and home hoops games with Duke and UNC.