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[QUOTE="N.Y. Orangeman, post: 35153, member: 21"]
[URL]http://www.theacc.com/podcasts/acc-network-podcasts.html[/URL] Swofford Press Conference on 9/21 at the 19 minute mark. "125% of the budget in any given year"

I respectfully disagree. Nebraska's boosters sprung for this in order to get out of the B12 and away from Texas, which was an emotional issue in their base. These factors aren't present here.

The numbers you are grabbing at are hypotheticals as well. While the B10 and its network will have an advantage, you have no basis for the 2/1 ratio you cite. I'll defer to our experts around here (who actually have first hand knowledge), but it defies logic that a conference with the coverage the ACC now has will have a new deal (remember, the ACC redid their deal prior to others) that is less than all others save the Big East. I guess we will have to see on this one. If I am not mistaken, the SEC gets $17m, the Pac-10 gets $21m, the B10 gets $20-23m and the B12 gets $2, but Texas gets $100m. Are you suggesting the ACC, which has the entire Eastern seaboard would get half of the others? I'll be very surprised.

Also, I've yet to see one credible article that cited anyone around Maryland as having an interest in leaving the conference it founded. I don't see a hint of it anywhere, much less here ([URL]http://www.umterps.com/genrel/091811aaa.html[/URL])

Finally,  I really think you are underestimating the problems in the Maryland AD department.  They are as bad when you figure in the debt as Cal's problems were.  Check out the WaPo articles on this.
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