Plank bankrolling Maryland's ACC exit?

This guy re-defines the term "Sugar Daddy".

I'll admit it....I'm a wwwhhhhooooorrrreeeee because I'd have my team wear whatever ugly uniforms are required to get that kind of money.

Fact is, people do worse things for money than wear ugly uniforms, change conferences and lose football games.

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Originally posted 08:33 AM ET  11.20 by Deep Creek

Fact is, people do worse things for money than wear ugly uniforms, change conferences and lose football games.

I can only think of three or four worse things..... :-)

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Originally posted 08:33 AM ET  11.20 by Deep Creek

Fact is, people do worse things for money than wear ugly uniforms, change conferences and lose football games.

Hey...don't judge me!!!! : )

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Originally posted 08:42 AM ET  11.20 by HOGGIE STYLE

Hey...don't judge me!!!! : )

I can't...I admitted that I'm a

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Of course he is. Kevin Anderson doesn't run that athletic department, Plank and Under armour do. Anderson is just a mouthpiece for Plank. Yes this will be a financial gain for the dept but part of me thinks its Under Armours plan to get into the Big 14 schools and the terps are his tool. Gonna suck when instead of just being flattened by FSU and Clemson/VT they get flattened by tOSU, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, MSU and PSU can resume a yearly destruction...Long term loss for the program IMHO.

Gonna hurt Bball (what the school is really about) as well...

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Originally posted 08:46 AM ET  11.20 by Deep Creek

I can't...I admitted that I'm a ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you can't be good DC, be good at it.

Bigger picture... Maryland's sports programs are now secure for years to come. This was a no-brainer move.

And if a "booster" (or boosters) is able to facilitate that move, then good for them.


Bottom line - if anyone thought that things were settled after Notre Dame made their decision, they were extremely naive. Conference reshuffling is far, FAR from over.

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Originally posted 09:06 AM ET  11.20 by FAMU RATTLER

If you can't be good DC, be good at it.

No kiddin'...at least wwwhhhhhoooooooorrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeessssss were smarter than me. I got screwed a lot as a school administrator and never got paid for it. Least they get paid!

Man, this one went south in a hurry.

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Originally posted 09:25 AM ET  11.20 by GrandTheftHarley

...But it is as Norka reminded us...the Superconferences are almost here.

Yup - and if you ain't leading, you are in the Big East!

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Originally posted 09:25 AM ET  11.20 by GrandTheftHarley

Andy Staples made a pretty good argument in his column as to why Maryland and Rutgers needed to join the B1G. He even pulled some one-liners we wrote on FN recently to rebut them and make his case. OK, call me an pathetic traditionalist, but I still don't like the move. But it is as Norka reminded us...the Superconferences are almost here.

I understand the move, I just think it hurts in the long run. Sure the money will be nice for a while. But it's all about football now and how's it going to help when you get trounced by 6 teams a year instead of 2? Not to mention taking your star program (albeit not the money machine) basketball to a lesser conference.

For years people around here HATED PSU for taking recruits away from College Park. Now the region will be raided by not only PSU but Michigan, tOSU, Nebraska you name it.. Short term gain long term pain (except for Under Armour) IMHO

Probably a good investment for Plank. IMHO, the B1G is a bigger platform for CFB than the ACC. If he's approaching this from a marketing standpoint, the flashy uniforms and trying to be the next Oregon prob plays better from the B1G platform than it does the ACC platform.

Now, he's just got to get the facilities and coaching upgraded so they can dominate and WIN conference titles like Oregon, which also should be MUCH easier to do in the B1G than in the ACC......

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Originally posted 09:31 AM ET  11.20 by WPS

Probably a good investment for Plank. IMHO, the B1G is a bigger platform for CFB than the ACC. If he's approaching this from a marketing standpoint, the flashy uniforms and trying to be the next Oregon prob plays better from the B1G platform than it does the ACC platform. Now, he's just got to get the facilities and coaching upgraded so they can dominate and WIN conference titles like Oregon, which also should be MUCH easier to do in the B1G than in the ACC......

So now you have to go and make a realistic, well-stated, reasonable post as to why it makes sense!!! :-)

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Originally posted 09:31 AM ET  11.20 by WPS

Probably a good investment for Plank. IMHO, the B1G is a bigger platform for CFB than the ACC. If he's approaching this from a marketing standpoint, the flashy uniforms and trying to be the next Oregon prob plays better from the B1G platform than it does the ACC platform. Now, he's just got to get the facilities and coaching upgraded so they can dominate and WIN conference titles like Oregon, which also should be MUCH easier to do in the B1G than in the ACC......

Not sure how winning the Big 14 would be easier than winning the cake ACC...maybe in Bball

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Originally posted 09:36 AM ET  11.20 by randyclark623

Not sure how winning the Big 14 would be easier than winning the cake ACC...maybe in Bball

Not going to win it in either in CFB anyways.

Easier road in BB.