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Originally Posted by morsdraconis
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Is it? I have no legal background so maybe CLW can chime it.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
A: A link is provided
B: Smooth does not claim the information as his own.
C: This is not a for profit competing site to ESPN.
That said I do agree with posting a link to the site, the title and a short part of the story. Unless it is a site that is of a NSFW nature, or requires a log-in (not subscription) to view it.
Believe me, coming from a Redskins board full of lawyers, they enforced the hell out of that. It could have been because it was a Scout.com affiliate or some shit, but they were hyper-hardcore about it. I don't know if it has any actual legal precedent or anything, but it still bothers the hell out of me for some reason.
I could definitely understand that if it had been an Insider article and I or someone posted the entire thing, when it was intentionally made a story behind ESPN's paywall, but this was a regular article that ESPN has posted right on their main page, so I didn't think it was an issue. I posted the direct link to the story, included the title and the name of the guy who wrote it. I've always done stuff that way, and it's never been an issue or caused an issue with anyone/anywhere, so I've always continued doing it that way, as long as it's an available to everyone story and not a story posted behind a paywall.
Hell, ESPN plagarizes all the time under the guise of "sources"...
Georgia Southern officially wants to play in FBS
http://www.statesboroherald.com/sect...45643/preview/
Great! Someone else to beat :Southern_Miss: by 3 TDs.Quote:
Originally Posted by gschwendt
I have some serious doubts about the actual chances of that happening. The ACC raised their exit fee to $50 million just a few months ago, and Big East bumped their exit fee up to $10 million. Unless the Big Ten ponies up money to help Maryland, I don't see them being able to afford and pay the $50 million to leave.
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Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
under armour might help up
Timing sure is interesting. The CEO being a Maryland booster and having attended the school. Why just earlier this week...Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
http://m.bizjournals.com/baltimore/n...ng.html?r=full
Plank is selling the shares, a fraction of his stock in Under Armour (NYSE: UA), for asset diversification, tax and estate planning and charitable giving purposes, the filing said. The shares, if sold at Monday's closing price of $49.62, are worth $64.5 million.
As for Rutgers, they will be getting loans from Snookie and Jwoww.
Interesting. Maybe something will come of it. Though the idiots should have tried to get out before the increase to $50 million. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
Under Armour founder and Maryland uber-booster Kevin Plank is "100 percent" behind the Terrapins moving from the ACC to the Big Ten, a regent told ESPN on Sunday.
The University System of Maryland's Board of Regents will meet at 9 a.m. Monday to vote whether to accept an invitation to join the Big Ten Conference, a source told ESPN.
Plank is "heavily involved behind the scenes with board members," a regent told ESPN on Sunday. The source added that several of the 17 board members were "miffed" that they were not included in the process until the late stages, so the vote could be close.
Plank declined comment at Saturday's game but insisted he is not involved in Maryland's athletic decisions.
If Maryland goes from the ACC to the Big Ten, Rutgers of the Big East will then follow suit, a source said. The Rutgers announcement could be as early as Tuesday, sources said. The addition of Maryland and Rutgers would give the Big Ten 14 members as the league gears toward negotiations on a new media rights deal when its first-tier rights expire in 2017.
There is not a consensus among Maryland athletic department officials, a source said. The school is leaning toward the move but there is still time for the school to decide to stay in the ACC, according to the source.
Maryland president Wallace Loh has been handling the conversation with Big Ten officials, a source said.
One stumbling block for Maryland could be finances. Maryland's athletic department has recently dropped sports because of budget issues, and the ACC recently raised its exit fee to $50 million.
Maryland and Florida State were the only two of 12 schools that voted against a $50 million exit fee out of the ACC, but lost the vote. Loh was quoted in the Washington Post on Sept. 13 that he was against the hike from $20-50 million on "legal and philosophical" grounds. The Post reported that Loh said Maryland planned to be in the ACC for years to come.
A source told ESPN that the Big Ten has been itchy about further expansion since Notre Dame made its official move to the ACC two months ago in all sports other than football. The source said the Big Ten can justify Maryland and then possibly Rutgers since they are all contiguous states to the Big Ten footprint.
One source told ESPN that Loh and athletic director Kevin Anderson don't have ACC ties so there wouldn't be a strong emotional pull to stay with the conference. Loh is a former provost at Big Ten member Iowa.
However, the chancellor of the Maryland system, Brit Kirwan, has been on the Maryland campus for 30 years and has strong affiliation for being a charter member of the ACC, according to a source.
One source with Maryland ties said there is a strong affinity for the ACC and making the move to the Big Ten may not be a unanimous decision among the school's board of regents.
Rutgers' exit fee from the Big East would be less expensive. The buyout to leave the Big East is $10 million if the school provides 27 months' notice. However, the league has allowed West Virginia, Pitt and Syracuse to leave the league without honoring the 27-month requirement by paying a higher exit fee.
The addition of the two East Coast schools would dramatically stretch the Big Ten's footprint. With Maryland holding down the Beltway, Rutgers offering up the New York market and Penn State's strong eastern ties, the league has a solid anchor in the mid-Atlantic states.
Maryland and Rutgers also would make the nation's richest conference even wealthier. Last season, each Big Ten school received a record $24.6 million in shared revenue, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. One source said the success of the Big Ten Network is an intriguing factor for Maryland.
If the two schools join the Big Ten, it would reopen what many thought was a stable time in the conference realignment process. The Big Ten joins the SEC as a legitimate 14-team superconference, while the ACC drops to 13 football members and likely will pursue another all-sports member to get back to 14. Connecticut would emerge as the most likely candidate to fill Maryland's spot in the ACC.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/st...en-move-monday
So since it looks like it could be serious with Kevin Plank involved, first, how does this screw up Big Ten alignment? And second, how bad will Big East get screwed if Rutgers leaves and the ACC goes after UConn? Any future conference changes will probably involve thefts from the Big East. I used to not give a damn about the Big East, but with Navy joining in 2015, I've become invested in the future of the Big East.
If the ACC takes two, the Big East is dead.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Maryland Regents voted unanimously to approve a move to the B1G.
Maryland will join the Big Ten, effective 2014-15 season. BTN Expansion Special & UMD presser to air on BTN/BTN2Go at 2:30pm ET.
http://twitter.com/BigTenNetwork/sta...63079052488705
This one is a shocker. I sure as heck didn't see this coming. Maryland was one of the original members of the Southern Conference that broke away to form the ACC. If I was Fla St, Clemson, Ga Tech and VT, I would get the heck out of the ACC asap.
More BTN.....great.....maybe they'll fucking spring for online streaming of games finally.....
B1G Here we coooommmeeeeeeeeee! Lol I think this an iffy move
All about the $$$$$, obviously.
I'm more ok with Maryland than Rutgers, but whatever.
From "Sources" McMurphy: Maryland prez tells regents MD, RU in Leaders Division w/OSU, PSU, Wisconsin, Purdue & Indiana. Illinois moves to Legends
Also some rumor that UConn to ACC may happen tomorrow.
Yeah, it obviously was about the money from the get-go. Just think of how much more money Big Ten Network could obtain in 2017 with the new TV contract with the Baltimore, New Jersey, New York City, northern Virginia, and Washington, D.C. markets added to the network footprint.Quote:
Originally Posted by AustinWolv
Told ya. Big East is dead. No way they survive another team leaving. As it is, ACC will probably try to get Cincinnati or Louisville now, leaving the Big East sitting there with no prayer of continuing as a football conference.
ACC in talks with UConn, Louisville, South Florida and Cincinnati about 14th team to replace Maryland, source told @CBSSports.
http://twitter.com/JFowlerCBS/status/270591936996470785
This [censored] is getting so ridiculous now its to the point where I'm tempted to just turn off all of sports or watch local high schools. Of course, those kids are also probably already on HGH and/or have a sneaker deal on the down low. :smh:
It's just "now" getting ridiculous?Quote:
Originally Posted by CLW
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No but for me its been a slowly simmering problem that has finally come to boil. Already read reports of:Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
:Connecticut: - :ACC:
:Louisville: - :ACC:
:Duke: & :North_Carolina: - package deal to the :SEC:
This [censored] is NOT going to stop until we have 4 "super" conferences that control all of major college athletics.
That already seems to be starting without the ACC's help.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...ithout-penalty
http://espn.go.com/college-football/...rn-sources-say
Run little doggies, run.
Why the hell would the SEC want Duke and North Carolina? They bring absolutely nothing to the table in football, and outside of Kentucky (and I suppose Florida and Vanderbilt), the SEC is shit when it comes to basketball.Quote:
Originally Posted by CLW
Fuck. Right after Navy decides to finally join up with a conference, this shit happens. Fuck you Maryland. Fuck you Rutgers. Fuck you UConn. Fuck you ACC. Fuck you Big Ten. Fuck you Notre Dame (them joining the ACC is being called the catalyst for the Big Ten expanding again). Fuck you NCAA.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
And this shit cracks me up. For as much as the Big East gets bashed on for being a "second-rate" conference and grouped with every other conference outside the Pac-12, Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12, these "major conferences" sure fucking love raiding the Big East for teams to bring into their conferences. "Hey, your conference is a joke and not on our level, but we'll sure as fuck keep inviting teams from your conference to join ours." I'm fucking sick of this shit. The NCAA can go fuck itself up the ass.
Calm down. He wasn't "serious" about that (at least I don't believe so). He was just making the example that everyone is raping each other AGAIN and was just throwing his Dukies in the mix.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
He said he had already seen reports of those he listed, including the package deal to the SEC. I just don't see why the hell the SEC would want them and why they would want to go. The ACC is by far better than the SEC in basketball and Duke and North Carolina will never be known for their football, so may as well stay in the basketball haven that is the ACC and have a chance of .500 in football, rather than lose 8-10 games a year in the SEC.Quote:
Originally Posted by souljahbill
If the SEC raids anyone from the ACC, football would be the driving factor and it'd be any of Clemson, Florida State, Miami (FL), or Virginia Tech, but sure as hell not Duke or North Carolina.
SEC trying to prepare for the NEXT conference re-alignment war when Football is BANNED in America due to concussions/head injuries and thus basketball becomes the cash cow of college sports.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
talks between byu, boise state, san diego state, and the mountain west are being held about the possibility of those 3 teams returning to the mountain west.
With some of the WAC teams joining, if those three come back, the MWC will be a fun conference to watch.
If the MWC had already stabilized and was all set without risk of being raided down the road, I'd be tempted as them to say "fuck you" to those teams. The Mountain West wasn't good enough for them a year or two ago, but now suddenly "we love you, we want back in". And like some abused, redheaded stepchild, the MWC will take them back, believing them when they say they're sorry and won't do it again, only to watch them bolt again in a couple months or a year when the Pac-12 once again fails to get Texas and Oklahoma and decides that Boise State is acceptable enough to invite into the conference.Quote:
Originally Posted by baseballplyrmvp
And what's up with BYU? What, going indy wasn't as great and glamorous as they thought it would be?
Utterly fail to understand this one. From my experience, BTN is already on most of the "basic" packages for Northern Virginia anyway. Would imagine it is for most of the DC area. Don't know about Baltimore. I think outsiders are assuming that no one in DMV cares about the Big Ten (which is insane considering the number of Penn State grads here) and that our cable packages don't include it, but that hasn't been my experience at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Will make Saturdays interesting though. Does ABC give the regional coverage game for DC/Maryland to the Big Ten or to the ACC? That would be a huge difference, more so than BTN.
Well, I can honestly say I don't know how well BTN is represented over that way, but with these two addititions, it will definitely make BTN a massive presence and player in the NYC, New Jersey, Baltimore, DC and Northern Virigina areas, more so than they may already be.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
Finally some good news for the Big East, Boise State and SDSU have reaffirmed their commitment to the Big East. So it's gonna depend on if UConn or Louisville leave for the ACC and who the Big East goes after to replace Louisville/UConn and Rutgers. Right now, my personal thoughts, the front runners for the Big East would probably be Air Force, East Carolina, maybe Louisiana Tech, maybe even go to the Sun Belt and grab Arkansas State? There are still some options for the Big East to pick teams up. Maybe not quite 100% on the same level as Rutgers or Louisville or something, but still good teams.