The Lions' Pride

I'm with this, I like the addition of MD, but Rutgers really does nothing.

I'd rather be out of the Big Ten.

But if we're going to stay...then yeah on both teams so we have some other eastern friends on board.

Maryland is meh because I don't care about non-revenue sports except wrestling and WVB, and we're going to shellack them in both for the foreseeable future. Rutgers? Yay in an odd sort of way. We get to bitchslap them every year, and don't have to hear their sh!t? Fine by me.

I withhold final judgement until I see how the TV markets work out, but as far as quality goes, this dilutes the brand.

Yay= MD, Meh= RU... I just hope they can really bring the NY TVs... Because that remains to be seen. If not, it's a waste.

Meh on both

Maryland Yay!! I love DC and will be visiting again the first away game at Maryland. Also, Maryland is a team I remember Penn State playing while I was growing up.
Rutgers meh. I would have preferred Cuse.

Maryland= YAY! - It might not be a great football addition, but I think its a perfect fit in every other way. At the end of the day I would rather the Big Ten be known as the best academics and research conference in div 1 football.
Rutgers= Total facepalm. Purely a money move. I don't hear that much about rutgers as an academic or research school. If they were why does penn state get new jersey kids in the droves? Can they even get the Big Ten the New York market? It was my understanding that big ten network was a given in most tv packages only in the state were a team is.

You guys will love this once we start playing them. These are the teams we care about, even of we look down on them. Playing them will just feel different than playing Minnesota or Illinois.

U r joking, right? Rutgers is meh in all dimensions, including academics.

Terrible move IMO. A bad reputation in terms of football just got worse, by adding two perrenial cupcakes. Rutgers pretty bad in most sports, and MD isnt what it used to be in BB. TV markets whatever, I understand, but bad moves all around. If it was VAtech and someone else, I would have respected it, but just two real cupcakes.

I'd say ehhhh, yay. Better for us than the rest of the B1G just because of geographics.