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The Big Ten is expanding again

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You like that flag on my lapel. May as well Terrapin off for yourself.

Ugh.
 
Maryland and rutgers.. just not that exciting.

Louisville or Syracuse and rutgers would of been alot more appealing
 
Louisville would be a nice fit athletically.

I don't think they are the academic fit that the B1G is after
https://www.aau.edu/about/article.aspx?id=5476

Nebraska is the only Member of the B1G not on that list. They were on the list when they got voted into the conference, but got dropped from the AAU prior to the start of there initial year of athletic play (Went down something like that anyways).

AAU dictates that these schools would / could be options
Georgia Institute of Technology (GT)
Iowa State University
The University of Kansas
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)
University of Pittsburgh
University of Toronto (Would need to go D2 for a trial run...But they make some sense)
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University
 
money makes the world go round
 
I'm not surprised at all by the addition of Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten. The conference has always placed an emphasis on academics and those two universities fit seamlessly into that tradition. Greene's Guides put out a book in 2001 entitled "The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities" where they did an expansive study of every public university in the country. Their findings determined that there were 30 public schools with academic quality comparable to an Ivy League institution. I've included the entire list below and bolded the schools that belong to the Big Ten Conference.

Pennsylvania State University (University Park)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
State University of New York at Binghamton
University of Connecticut (Storrs)
University of Delaware (Newark)
University of Maryland (College Park)
College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
University of Florida (Gainesville)
University of Georgia (Athens)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Arizona (Tucson)
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Washington (Seattle)
Indiana University (Bloomington)
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
Michigan State University (East Lansing)
Ohio State University (Columbus)
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
University of Iowa (Iowa City)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis–St. Paul)
University of Wisconsin (Madison)

The inclusion of Maryland and Rutgers means 11 of the 13 public universities in the Big Ten (Northwestern is a private university) are on the Public Ivies list. No other conference comes close to this number.
 
I'm not surprised at all by the addition of Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten. The conference has always placed an emphasis on academics and those two universities fit seamlessly into that tradition. Greene's Guides put out a book in 2001 entitled "The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities" where they did an expansive study of every public university in the country. Their findings determined that there were 30 public schools with academic quality comparable to an Ivy League institution. I've included the entire list below and bolded the schools that belong to the Big Ten Conference.

Pennsylvania State University (University Park)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
State University of New York at Binghamton
University of Connecticut (Storrs)
University of Delaware (Newark)
University of Maryland (College Park)
College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
University of Florida (Gainesville)
University of Georgia (Athens)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Arizona (Tucson)
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Washington (Seattle)
Indiana University (Bloomington)
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
Michigan State University (East Lansing)
Ohio State University (Columbus)
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
University of Iowa (Iowa City)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis–St. Paul)
University of Wisconsin (Madison)

The inclusion of Maryland and Rutgers means 11 of the 13 public universities in the Big Ten (Northwestern is a private university) are on the Public Ivies list. No other conference comes close to this number.

Yeah, but football players like Maurice Clarett and the kid from Glenville Cardale Jones didn't go there to "play no school".

@Cordale10 Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain't come to play SCHOOL classes are POINTLESS

Academics at its finest!
 
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I'm not surprised at all by the addition of Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten. The conference has always placed an emphasis on academics and those two universities fit seamlessly into that tradition. Greene's Guides put out a book in 2001 entitled "The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities" where they did an expansive study of every public university in the country. Their findings determined that there were 30 public schools with academic quality comparable to an Ivy League institution. I've included the entire list below and bolded the schools that belong to the Big Ten Conference.

Pennsylvania State University (University Park)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
State University of New York at Binghamton
University of Connecticut (Storrs)
University of Delaware (Newark)
University of Maryland (College Park)
College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
University of Florida (Gainesville)
University of Georgia (Athens)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Arizona (Tucson)
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Washington (Seattle)
Indiana University (Bloomington)
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
Michigan State University (East Lansing)
Ohio State University (Columbus)
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
University of Iowa (Iowa City)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis–St. Paul)
University of Wisconsin (Madison)

The inclusion of Maryland and Rutgers means 11 of the 13 public universities in the Big Ten (Northwestern is a private university) are on the Public Ivies list. No other conference comes close to this number.


Hate to be a buzz killington to your post, but it had more to do with money IMO. Bringing in new jersey's market with adding Rutgers to the B1G. Same with Maryland. The B1G network stands to make a decent profit off those two. The academic angle is great though.
 
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2015/09/multiple_rutgers_football_players_arrested.html


Multiple Rutgers football players arrested


Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Anthony A. Caputo, director of the New Brunswick Police Department, announced that four Rutgers University students and two former students were charged today with assaulting a group of individuals, including one student whose jaw was broken during the unprovoked attack.

Five were current Rutgers football players.

In a separate case, one of those former students and four others were charged with participating in home invasions in which victims, who also were members of the student body, were targeted for their drugs and cash.

Nine of the 10 defendants were arrested today. One remains at large. The arrests stem from an active and continuing investigation by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office and the New Brunswick Police Department.

The investigation began last spring when police were called to a home invasion on Prosper Street in New Brunswick on April 26, 2015 at 11:29 p.m., after three masked men forced their way into the home and stole an undisclosed amount of cash and marijuana from five students at gunpoint.

During an intensive investigation, police arrested Tejay Johnson, 23, of Egg Harbor. The former student was charged with robbery, criminal restraint, theft, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

As the investigation continued, police linked Johnson to a home invasion on Hartwell Street in New Brunswick on April 27, 2015.

Police determined that Johnson and Andre Boggs, 20, of Coatesville, Pa., forced their way into the home and, armed with a bat and a knife, robbed a student of approximately $900 and an undisclosed amount of marijuana.

They were arrested today on charges of robbery, burglary while armed, and conspiracy to commit an armed robbery.

Another student, Dylan Mastriana, 19, of Rio Grande, also was charged with those counts after the investigation determined that he helped plan the robbery.

In a third home invasion, Johnson and Boggs were charged with robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, and attempted burglary while armed for trying to force their way into another student's room in a dormitory complex at Livingston College in Piscataway on May 5, 2015.

The same charges also were filed against Mastriana, Jianan Chen, 19, of New Brunswick, and Kaylanna Ricks, 20, of Perth Amboy. The investigation showed that Mastriana and Chen planned the robbery, while Ricks drove Johnson and Boggs in a getaway vehicle.

Johnson and Boggs entered the dorm, but fled when the students targeted in the robbery resisted by closing and locking the door to their room as Johnson and Boggs attempted to force their way in. Nothing was stolen in that incident.

Police further determined that Johnson was one of six individuals who surrounded a group of at least four other individuals, including a Rutgers student, and assaulted them during an incident on Delafield Street on April 25, 2015.

The six were charged today with aggravated assault, riot, and conspiracy to commit a riot. A 19-year-old male student suffered a broken jaw during the unprovoked attack.

In addition to Johnson, defendants charged in the attack were identified as: Ruhann Peele, 22, and Nadir Barnwell, 20, both of Piscataway; Rahzonn Gross, 20, of Franklin Park, and Delon Stephenson, 22, and his brother, Daryl Stephenson, 23, both of Sayreville. Daryl Stephenson, also a former student at Rutgers, remains at large.
 
Kyle Flood is going to have to take some time out from being investigated by the NCAA to handle this.

Talk about your dumpster fires.

O/U Kyle Flood is gone by the time OSU rolls in?
 

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