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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 561434, member: 2531"] 1. Yes, that's why UMD joined the B1G. The B1G cares about how much money UMD will make the conference, which is a product of revenue. You are talking about costs. UMD's past financial decisions do not affect the B1G in any way unless they start affecting UMD's ability to generate revenue. Given that UMD is joining the B1G to keep that from happening, I don't think that's a problem. Also, money is fungible. I never made any claims about UMD football. I said that the athletic dept. makes money. As long as something makes money and will be distributed to the rest of the underfunded state schools in the B1G, then the underfunded state schools that dominate the B1G don't care whether it is football, hockey, basketball, or women's underwater basket-weaving. 2. FSU's $81 million included $7 million of student fees to cover the $7 million deficit. Syracuse made $69 million (and I don't think that we have student fees). Given that being in the ACC has a built-in $5-10 million advantage* that will even out when we are in the ACC, we are very much on par with FSU. We are certainly not better than them, but to pretend like we are in a different ball park isn't factually accurate. No we won't be able to compete with Texas, Michigan, OSU, PSU, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, or ND (if we ever could, then it hasn't been for a vary long time) in terms of revenue, but we can compete with pretty much every other non-[U]super[/U] big school, even the name ones. That won't change. *In the form of better bowls, better per team NCAA credits, better brand competition which leads to better attendance, and better per team tourney/CCG money. 3. Once again, you are cherry picking and distorting. I said academics amongst other factors. Specifically I mentioned that western PA has produced a number of great QB's. UL was added over UCONN. Pitt was added over WVU. Morgantown is 70 miles from the center of Pittsburgh and even less if you go from the edge of Pitt to the edge of Morgantown, and those are driving miles. Make it a straight line and it's even less. They are in the same "market." The are in the same recruiting grounds. WVU is a better program and makes $80 million/yr to Pitt's $56 million/yr. You tell me why Pitt was added over WVU if it had nothing to do with academics. I submit that UL was added over UCONN for a variety of reasons. The fact that UCONN was blacked-listed by BC by trashing BC in '04 is likely one of them. The fact that elevating UCONN would hurt SU (see GROB years) and/or it would hurt BC (see current BC football program) was also likely another big factor. Also, UL makes a TON more money than UCONN ($87 million to $63 million). I'm sure that had something to do with it, along with the fact that UL also has a MUCH more stable program. So yes, I agree with you that academics alone won't get a school added, but they are a factor. 4. Well, I can show you graphs that essentially prove that there is no correlation between "markets" and good TV contracts, but for you to be right, either the cable companies would have to be stupid and the B1G is tricking them, or the B1G would have to be dumb and the added schools (UMD and RU) would have to be tricking them. Which is it? [/QUOTE]

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