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[QUOTE="Phillymoose, post: 417375, member: 254"]
This move has definitely caused major angst and insecurity within the ACC...
 
BUT ... What is the Big 10 thinking?  This moves smacks of desperation.  MD and Rutgers?  Really - when they could have had Pitt, SU, WVU, VT, Miami, BC, or Louisville, etc. , they take MD and Rutgers?!
 
MD almost makes a little bit of sense.  Almost - but a charter ACC member and southern school on the Eastern seaboard?  It took me awhile to get my head around PSU in the Big 10, but MD is really out there. 
 
This is so cynical on both the Big10 and MD's part.  And don't get me started on Rutgers.  Delaney is supposed to be the master strategist, and all he could come up with is MD and Rutgers?  Now people are talking how UVA and UNC are in play for the B10 - well, why in hell wouldn't the B1G- just have gone after those 2 from the start if that's what they really wanted.  Are we to believe that MD was more attractive... or just more vulnerable?
 
Here's the bottom line for me.  This was bizarre late-comer move by Delaney.  He isn't conference building so much as firing torpedoes into another conference to see if it collapses on itself.  The risk is that the Big10 winds up with exactly what they've bought.  MD and Rutgers... and then that's it.
 
If the dust settles, and the ACC stablizes around Louisville or Uconn, then the last laugh will most definitely be on Delaney - - who all along had the power to grab schools like Pitt, SU, WVU, BC, Vtech, etc., and would up MD and Rutgers.
 
Seriously, can you imagine either of these schools playing a B10 schedule? 
 
And if you are MD... J-zus, you want to fix the $$ problem that your AD can't hire a competent football or basketball coach - by moving conferences?  Really?
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