UMd to the Big 10

DaBear · 11-19-2012, 12:53 PM

I'm going to be more brief here than my feelings truly are as I'll probably get put in time out if I use the words I want to.

I may have always hated the Terps, but I at least respected them. I frankly have lost all respect for them with this move. Rather than actually try to build a program and get out of the bottom of the barrel of the ACC, they move to the Big 10 where they'll likely sit in the middle of the pack in basketball and football(the two big money makers) and make no attempt at building the program anymore, not to mention lacrosse(they're third big sport) where they've been stuck in the shadow of UVA and/or Duke since the 90s and rather than recruit a program they'll either be a charter member of the Big 10 in lacrosse(theres now 5 Big 10 schools, OSU, PSU, Michigan, Rutgers joining too) or join a joke of a conference compared to the ACC(CAA most likely, they'd try to form a UDel-UMd rivalry) and instantly be the top of their conference, but still not even close to the quality of team any of the ACC programs will be.

tl;dr I'm flat out disgusted with this move.

11-19-2012, 12:53 PM	#1
DaBear Have My Own Room Join Date: Sep 2010 First Name: Bear Location: Raleigh, NC(NC State) Posts: 2,010 Trading: (26)	UMd to the Big 10 I'm going to be more brief here than my feelings truly are as I'll probably get put in time out if I use the words I want to. I may have always hated the Terps, but I at least respected them. I frankly have lost all respect for them with this move. Rather than actually try to build a program and get out of the bottom of the barrel of the ACC, they move to the Big 10 where they'll likely sit in the middle of the pack in basketball and football(the two big money makers) and make no attempt at building the program anymore, not to mention lacrosse(they're third big sport) where they've been stuck in the shadow of UVA and/or Duke since the 90s and rather than recruit a program they'll either be a charter member of the Big 10 in lacrosse(theres now 5 Big 10 schools, OSU, PSU, Michigan, Rutgers joining too) or join a joke of a conference compared to the ACC(CAA most likely, they'd try to form a UDel-UMd rivalry) and instantly be the top of their conference, but still not even close to the quality of team any of the ACC programs will be. tl;dr I'm flat out disgusted with this move.