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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 433738, member: 780"]
Not so sure about that.
 
Membership in the super-competitive and widely watched Big East basketball conference did exactly nothing for Rutgers basketball and vice-versa. They were a bottom feeder through their entire 20 year membership in the Big East. They, quite frankly, have been an embarrassment, not an asset.
 
My experience growing up in NJ is that the area will support big winners only. If Rutgers fails to perform at a top level in the Big Ten, NJ and NY sports viewers will ignore them. And its almost a certainty that they'll fail in both football and basketball. The jury is out as to whether they'll be second tier or third tier in the Big Ten. Again, consider their lack of performance in Big East basketball.
 
I don't know about Maryland football. Thye are going to havee to remake their team to play in the B1G, But as I have observed before, every quality basketball recruit they get says that an opportunity to play in the ACC was the overriding reason they selected Maryland as a place to play. Now Maryland no longer offers that.
 
Both of these schools were added because of the number of cable subscribers in their home states. When the ACC, Big 12 and Big Ten were out shopping for "quality" programs that had national appeal, Rutgers was left sitting on the shelf.
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