MD to the Big 11

So, what's the over/under on the number of football games Maryland will win in the new Big 11 over the next five seasons?

I'll start at 8 and take the under. At least it will get Randy Edsall fired.

Fuck you, Debbie Yow.

Don't know what you're talking about, but the title sounds like the name of a good porn flick.

well, it's already at 12 schools, so I'm not sure where you're getting 11 from.  With the addition of Maryland and Rutgers, the Big Ten will be at 14.

James wrote:
Don't know what you're talking about, but the title sounds like the name of a good porn flick.

Lol.

I think it's shit. Maybe they should focus on making the god damn people better so people will fucking care and go to the games instead of shitting on decades of tradition for money.

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:

James wrote:
Don't know what you're talking about, but the title sounds like the name of a good porn flick.

Lol.

I think it's shit. Maybe they should focus on making the god damn people better so people will fucking care and go to the games instead of shitting on decades of tradition for money.

are you talking about porn, or football?

I don't see what anyone is upset about?  Best solution is to just shut down sports at Maryland.  Everyone argues about this program being cut, football team isn't winning enough games, coach who won national championship should be fired for not getting better recruits, conference change whining.

Students have to pay money so that there is all these scholarship sports.  Tuition is high enough.  Shut down the sports and save them money. And also I won't have to hear people complaining about it.  Supposed to be amateur anyway. If you aren't on the team what do you care?

MD olympic sports are in the shitter because Debbie Yow is as responsible with taxpayer money as Congress. She bet big on expanding and renovating Byrd Stadium and she bet wrong. And even since the impeccably inept Wallace "Leadership is Overrated" Loh took over, the athletic department is still $25 million in the red.

I would love to see this whole league transfer get shitcanned because these idiots violated sunshine laws.

Fucking morons.

Thousand wrote:
MD olympic sports are in the shitter because Debbie Yow is as responsible with taxpayer money as Congress. She bet big on expanding and renovating Byrd Stadium and she bet wrong. And even since the impeccably inept Wallace "Leadership is Overrated" Loh took over, the athletic department is still $25 million in the red.

I would love to see this whole league transfer get shitcanned because these idiots violated sunshine laws.

Fucking morons.

Tax payer money doesn't go to sports.  They are funded with student fees.  Unless you are a current maryland student I don't know why you care.

Either way, that's money coming out of students' pockets. You can't just opt out of paying student fees, moron.

UMD is the only 1-A football school in the metro area and is one of the region's pre-eminent universities. A healthy and successful UMD brings positive attention to the area and represents it well. A floudering UMD brings ridicule and embarrassment.

I can't believe I really had to explain that to you. Well, I guess I can. You're an idiot.

atomicfront wrote:
Tax payer money doesn't go to sports.  They are funded with student fees.  Unless you are a current maryland student I don't know why you care.

huh?  Student fees fund the athletic department?  Not even close to being true.

Unlike sports at many other public universities, Maryland athletics are not supported by state funding, instead relying on fundraising that has slumped in recent years and student fees.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/terrapins-insider/post/maryland-president-wallace-loh-agrees-to-cut-eight-teams-to-alleve-budget-woes/2011/11/21/gIQAt1SuhN_blog.html

StoneTheCrow wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
Tax payer money doesn't go to sports.  They are funded with student fees.  Unless you are a current maryland student I don't know why you care.

huh?  Student fees fund the athletic department?  Not even close to being true.

Nearly 8 percent of Maryland?s athletics revenue in 2009-10 came from direct institutional support, and more than 17 percent came from student fees, according to USA Today?s college athletics finance database. (Maryland?s total revenue from those two streams is still significantly lower than the national FBS average of 60 percent.) It got about 18 percent each from contributions and conference revenues, and more than 23 percent from ticket sales.

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/11/22/maryland-will-cut-eight-teams-mitigate-athletic-budget-deficit#ixzz2CyHoC6pc

StoneTheCrow wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
Tax payer money doesn't go to sports.  They are funded with student fees.  Unless you are a current maryland student I don't know why you care.

huh?  Student fees fund the athletic department?  Not even close to being true.

Thousand wrote:
Either way, that's money coming out of students' pockets. You can't just opt out of paying student fees, moron.

UMD is the only 1-A football school in the metro area and is one of the region's pre-eminent universities. A healthy and successful UMD brings positive attention to the area and represents it well. A floudering UMD brings ridicule and embarrassment.

I can't believe I really had to explain that to you. Well, I guess I can. You're an idiot.

no one cares about maryland football and it does nothing to bring anything positive to the universityies image.  You are the moron who thinks college football is so important that you call someone a moron.  My suggestion, idiot dude, is to shut down sports at college park saving the students fees and the sparing you the ridcule and embarrassment that it somehow presents to you.

StoneTheCrow wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
Tax payer money doesn't go to sports.  They are funded with student fees.  Unless you are a current maryland student I don't know why you care.

huh?  Student fees fund the athletic department?  Not even close to being true.

see james ford comments below.  for some reason people think college sports bring in money when the opposite is true.  I will never understand why anyone would think this is important to the university they attend.  Yale, Harvard, and Georgetown's football teams seem to be pretty far of the radar but I don't see them hurting the schools reputations.

Your comment seems to say 100% funded which is untrue (as confirmed by Mr. Ford).

according to huffington post maryland students pay 640 dollars to the atheletic department in fees.  I am guessing that quite a few students would prefer not to pay the fee in lieu of paying out all the athletic schoarships and crazy coaches salaries.  All these stupid tv contracts and having atheletes on campus who have no reason being in college and the students still have to pick up the bill.  Sports in college should be for the students. Not for some jock who most likely doesn't even know how to read.

Maryland's athletic department is one of the only ADs in the country that is self-sustaining. If you want to point fingers as to why Maryland is joining the Big Ten, the blame lies on one person: Debbie Yow. She robbed Peter to pay Paul by paying for the athletic department's expenses using future reserves! She then left town for NC State and left incoming AD Kevin Anderson to inherit a financial mess. Anderson had no choice but to cut all those sports because they were left with barely any money to operate with!

On top of that, she built the football suites despite a commission hired by the AD saying otherwise. She even bent laws to get herself inducted into the Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame. Additionally, Comcast got a ridiculous deal on the naming rights of the Comcast Center that will last for years to come. Under her watch, women's assistant basketball coaches salaries were higher than men's (you know, the revenue sport). The list goes on and on with her gaffes and she should be locked up for fraud. She cooked the books while at UMD and College Park has been paying the price because of her financial mismanagement.

The move to the Big Ten makes financial sense for Maryland, plus the ACC has been dead for over a decade ever since they did away with round-robin basketball after adding Miami, VT, and BC to the league. A lot of good that did them. Btw, you can buy ACC Football Championship tickets for $5 on StubHub.

How is something "self-sustaining" if there is a mandatory student fee of $640 per student subsidizing it?

i really wish that each school that wanted to participate in this new age gladiator hero worship program we have going on in this country would get a separate wing to the college for athletes only.  no pressure of "real school" and learning the "hard stuff."  just enough to get by once the sport is over.  the total dedication is to the sport though, the game, the play and the field and the meaning of a team bound by one who will coach them all.  who can really then brag about being the best in the polls or the standings?  they can bring in engineers and fucking scientists to work on that shit.  and all the scholarships stays the same.  good grades in a "special" curriculum you are given early on to get into the college program, mixed with your ability to play/make money potential from there on out.  you think sports are good now.  they would rule then.  rule. 

walkonby wrote:
i really wish that each school that wanted to participate in this new age gladiator hero worship program we have going on in this country would get a separate wing to the college for athletes only.  no pressure of "real school" and learning the "hard stuff."  just enough to get by once the sport is over. 

I think most "serious" athletic programs already have that..