expansion news
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deedsker
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Excel
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Maryland is countersuing the ACC for +$150 million for anti-trust issues or something...they've also alleged that either the ACC as a conference or Pitt and Wake Forest tried to recruit at least two Big Ten schools to join the ACC.
http://college-footb...hing/?eref=sihp
http://college-footb...hing/?eref=sihp
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GM_Tood
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Pitt certainly would have wanted PSU. I wonder if MSU was the other? They have good hoops and think they get a lack of respect by the Big10. Anyway, it was one of the schools with good hoops I am sure. Seems like a silly lawsuit however.
Excel
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The entire counterclaim: http://media10.washi.../acclawsuit.pdf paragraph 104 includes the bit about the ACC trying to snag two Big Ten Schools. Apparently they were both east of the Mississippi river which doesn't help much, so it wasn't Nebraska, Iowa or Minnesota. Kind of guessed that already.
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Notre Dame Joe
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so what? The ACC recruiting new members in no way means that existing members are exempt from an exit fee.
Far more interesting is the news that ESPN was encouraging the ACC expansion because the Big East was holding out for more money.
Far more interesting is the news that ESPN was encouraging the ACC expansion because the Big East was holding out for more money.
Excel
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By itself it means nothing, it's one small piece of information (1 out of nearly 200 paragraphs in the suit) that Maryland's lawyers are using to show that the ACC is unfairly preventing competition.
It's amusing to people that follow the the Big Ten. I for one, don't care about the ACC raiding the Big East or why they did it. Far more interesting that the B1G and ACC both tried scooping each other and only one was successful, it sort of shows the conference pecking order.
I think the general goal here is to get the suit moved from NC to Maryland and then win it there, settle or just get the ACC to straight up drop it. There's no chance the ACC or UMD pay the amounts that are being thrown around and it's not as if they're going to cancel their move to the B1G, this is just the ACC trying to milk UMD for what money they can and embarrass them.
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Notre Dame Joe
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Agree except for the jurisdictional part. Guy on Shaggy said that it was an intimidation move, to threaten discovery and depositions to turn up dirt, even if said dirt doesn't really impact the lawsuit.
ARod's lawyers are basically doing the same thing.
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Coqui
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Agreed. And people still think ESPN doesn't have it out for the Big Ten? They were trying to weaken the brand itself.
Notre Dame Joe
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Coqui
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Because we started the Big Ten Network. This was long before we had a championship game.
VectorVictor
Heisman Trophy Winner
It's ESPN being petty little bitches in this instance--they were the first network Delaney went to with the idea for the BTN, and ESPN did everything but laugh Delaney out of Bristol. Of course, that was a stupid, *stupid* move for ESPN, and now that Delaney had the audacity to show ESPN up and succeed, we see negative/slanted B1G coverage as retaliation.
What everyone in the B1G should be concerned with is what happens if ESPN loses the B1G games completely: There's talk that Fox is willing to ante up for most to all B1G rights to shore up their Fox Sports Network (they have the inside track as majority partner of the BTN). Add to this the talk that NBC (for NBC Sports) and CBS are interested in leftover second-tier and first-tier B1G football inventory (respectively) and there's a possible scenario where the B1G isn't on ESPN at all.
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