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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 543601, member: 780"]
Our lone Rutgers fans resurfaces. The big question is "Why do you care?".
 
It's no longer necessary to try and pump up your own school's standing by trying to hitchhike on SU's tradition by suggesting the two schools are rivals of any sort.
 
Where I went wrong on Maryland was that I didn't realize just how desperate the Maryland administration was. Every other factor other than money lobbied for Maryland to stay in the ACC. They sold their soul and it took a while, but that's starting to sink in just what they did and why they did it. And the Terrapin Club is not happy.
 
The B1G found the two programs with lots of local cable boxes that were in distress. They didn't care about the schools or the teams. They were like a developer that is just interested in the land and not the buildings on the land.
 
UVA is not in the same kind of fiscal bind that Maryland was in. Or the same kind of fiscal and conference bind that Rutgers was in. This was a case of the wolf picking on the halt and the lame and the blind. UVA is healthy.
 
Rutgers was chosen by the B1G only because the school sits among a lot of cable subscribers. That's it. It certainly wasn't for athletic excellence. The school had been passed over multiple times when the conferences were looking for schools that their membership would actually like to be associated with. They became a candidate when the subject switched to cable customers in the local area. RU athletics was bleeding $25M a year from the students and taxpayers while fielding an array of failing a teams from basketball to lacrosse.
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