SB Nation New York - Rutgers to Big Ten: Scarlet Knights leave Big East Conferencehttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/48977/ny-fave.png2012-11-21T08:14:09-05:00http://newyork.sbnation.com/rss/stream/34305272012-11-21T08:14:09-05:002012-11-21T08:14:09-05:00Reaction to Rutgers' Big 10 move varies
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<p>Rutgers made its move to the Big 10 Conference official on Tuesday. Here is some of the reaction to the announcement.</p> <p><a href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1772659/rutgers_big10.PNG" target="_blank"><img alt="Rutgers_big10_medium" class="photo" src="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1772659/rutgers_big10_medium.PNG"></a> <br id="1353503477464"> Rutgers University Tuesday announced its move from the Big East Conference to the Big 10. SB Nation New York's Jared Smith o<a href="http://newyork.sbnation.com/rutgers-scarlet-knights-football/2012/11/20/3670314/big-ten-expansion-rutgers-football-basketball-maryland">ffered his assessment on Tuesday</a>. Here is some of the other reaction to the announcement.</p>
<p><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/65885/delany-rutgers-a-potential-national-player">Delany: Rutgers a 'potential national player' - Big Ten Blog - ESPN</a><br>Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany was in Maryland on Monday to welcome the school as the league's 13th member. Tuesday, he got to go home. <br><br> "I think they're a real potential national player in athletics," he said. "Why? They have the demographic footprint a lot of great athletics here and academics. The possibility of our institutions coming into this region and their institutions coming into Midwest region ... will introduce a new element into the mix."</p>
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<p><a href="http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2012/11/21/rutgers-and-maryland-lack-football-pedigree.html">Big Ten: Rutgers, Maryland lack football pedigree | Buckeye Xtra Sports</a><br>What has the Big Ten immediately given its fans, especially in football, with the additions of Rutgers and Maryland — schools Ohio State has never played in football? <br><br> What already is known is that Rutgers and Maryland aren’t exactly providing the pigskin pedigree that Nebraska brought to the Big Ten two years ago and Penn State added to the league in 1993.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2012/11/politi_big_ten_is_hoping_rutge.html">Politi: Big Ten is hoping Rutgers will deliver more than just TV sets | NJ.com</a><br>So in every possible way, this was always a no brainer for Rutgers. The reasons for the Big Ten, meanwhile, are less clear. Its commissioner, Jim Delany, is one of the most powerful men in college athletics, building his conference into one of the most stable in the sport. <br><br> Here he is, near the end of his career, staking that reputation and legacy … on Rutgers? <br><br> Even the most ardent booster will have to admit to being caught off guard when rumor became reality. So the most intriguing moment yesterday came when Delany, who grew up in Newark and attended St. Benedict’s Prep in the city, explained why his home state makes sense for a Midwestern conference. <br><br> That last part, he said, was the key. The Big Ten doesn’t just want to be a Midwestern conference any more. <br><br> This is Delany’s great gamble: That he can use Penn State as a bridge to the East Coast, and in that adding the flagship universities in New Jersey and Maryland (combined population: 14.6 million), he can extend the footprint of his league far beyond its roots.</p>
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https://newyork.sbnation.com/rutgers-scarlet-knights-football/2012/11/21/3674944/rutgers-big-10-conference-realignment-varies-big-east-jim-delany-marylandEd Valentine2012-11-20T15:28:15-05:002012-11-20T15:28:15-05:00Rutgers looking for bigger and better
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<p>Rutgers University officially accepted an invitation to join the Big Ten Conference Tuesday. </p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1772659/rutgers_big10.PNG"><img src="http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1772659/rutgers_big10_medium.PNG" class="photo" alt="Rutgers_big10_medium"></a> <br id="1353444625889"> Rutgers University officially accepted its invite to join the Big Ten Conference Tuesday with a press conference featuring the school's president Robert Barchi, athletic director Tim Pernetti and Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany. The presser was held immediately after the Big Ten and its Council of Presidents/Chancellors unanimously approved the Scarlet Knights as their 14th member.</p>
<p>"This is a transformative day for Rutgers University," said Pernetti at the press conference. "Transformative in so many ways. The Big Ten Conference is the ultimate academic neighborhood to live in. We're now in the neighborhood with like-minded institutions, pure schools. This is not just about a collaboration on the fields of play, this is about a collaboration about every level.</p>
<p>"This is a perfect place for Rutgers."</p>
<p>Rutgers' move to the Big Ten means it will soon end its 21-year relationship with the Big East Conference, a league which invited the Scarlet Knights to join in 1991 as a football-playing member and added it as an all-sports member in 1995.</p>
<p>The university's decision came a day after The University of Maryland announced it was leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference for the Big Ten beginning in July of 2014.</p>
<p>"Today I am all Rutgers, yesterday I was all Maryland," Delany joked at the press conference.</p>
<p>[<a target="_blank" href="http://www.bigeastcoastbias.com/2012/11/20/3672166/rutgers-joins-the-big-ten-big-east-commissioner-mike-aresco-statement">Big East statement</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bigten.org/genrel/112012aaf.html">Big 10 announcement</a>]<a target="_blank" href="http://www.bigeastcoastbias.com/2012/11/20/3672166/rutgers-joins-the-big-ten-big-east-commissioner-mike-aresco-statement"><br></a></p>
<p>According to Delany, talks between Rutgers and the Big Ten have been ongoing for three to four years, and the league's addition of the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/penn-st-nittany-lions">Penn St. Nittany Lions</a> in '93 helped begin the process of moving to the Mid-Atlantic.</p>
<p>"Our people are really excited about it," Delany said. "We're not asking that New Jersey move to the Midwest. We're going to move to the East, so you can be yourself and we can be ourselves and together join a partnership to enhance each other."</p>
<p>It's still unclear when Rutgers will depart from the Big East, as the two sides still need to agree on a possible early-exiting agreement. Currently, Rutgers would need to pay an exit fee of $10 million and wait 27 months.</p>
<p>Rutgers becomes the fourth Big East school to leave for another conference in the last year and a half.</p>
https://newyork.sbnation.com/rutgers-scarlet-knights-football/2012/11/20/3672212/big-ten-expansion-rutgers-2012-marylandJared Smith2012-11-20T13:24:42-05:002012-11-20T13:24:42-05:00Money talks, wins walk with Rutgers' move
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<p>Rutgers announced its move to the Big Ten Conference Tuesday, a change that will pay off in dollar amounts but not in wins according to SB Nation New York's Jared Smith.</p> <p>At 2 p.m. Tuesday, Rutgers University announced its departure from the Big East Conference for the Big Ten Conference, and the second domino in this latest round of conference realignment fell.</p>
<p>The next step in the process is for the Atlantic Coast Conference, and possibly the Big East, to fill the voids of Rutgers and The University of Maryland, which announced its jump to the Big Ten on Monday.</p>
<p>On paper, the decision by Maryland and Rutgers is fiscally smart; however, the reality is the Scarlet Knights, led by athletic director Tim Pernetti, are not making the "winning" move.</p>
<p>For me, that's the saddest part of this latest chapter in conference realignment.</p>
<p>Business wise, it's very hard to argue against becoming a member of the Big Ten. According to multiple reports Monday, the difference between Big East television money and Big Ten television money is approximately $18 million a year. That amount is projected to increase each year until the conference's latest TV contracts expires. At that time, it will go up even higher.</p>
<p>That amount of money disparity was enough for Maryland to say goodbye to the ACC, even though, it could face paying an astonishing $50 million exit fee, which was unanimously passed by ACC presidents less than a year ago and was expected to unite the league for years to come.</p>
<p>Rutgers will pay less of an exit fee ($10 million), however, the idea of spending that much money to make more money is hard to wrap your head around.</p>
<p>A little more than a year ago, the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/syracuse-orange" class="sbn-auto-link">Syracuse Orange</a> and <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/pittsburgh-panthers" class="sbn-auto-link">Pittsburgh Panthers</a> athletic departments made the same decision, as both bolted to the ACC to kick start the conference realignment circus.</p>
<p>At the time, the Orange and Panthers were criticized for being greedy and disloyal to a conference it had been partners with for over three decades.</p>
<p>Now, Rutgers and Maryland are being credited for adjusting to the times and doing what's right for their athletic departments.</p>
<p>Yet, in reality, Rutgers is being used as a sacrificial pawn in a very expensive game of TV market chess.</p>
<p>Yes, the Rutgers football program is close to, and probably will, locking up its first ever Big East crown and advancing onto a BCS bowl game. Seemingly, the future for the Scarlet Knights is bright under first-year head coach Kyle Flood.</p>
<p>Though, this was the same feeling about the program four years ago under the leadership of head coach Greg Schiano, who's arguably the architect of this current Rutgers team. So, despite its current success there's no proof this Golden Age will continue, especially now since the program is going to be playing against Big Ten powerhouses like the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/ohio-st-buckeyes" class="sbn-auto-link">Ohio St. Buckeyes</a> and Wisconsin Badgers<a href="http://%20Penn%20St.%20Nittany%20Lions,%20"> on an annual basis</a>.</p>
<p>Sure, Rutgers' recruiting could improve with this move, but the question is: will it improve enough to yearly complete with other division foes like the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/penn-st-nittany-lions" class="sbn-auto-link">Penn St. Nittany Lions</a>, already a geographical recruiting rival that wasn't setback as far back as many had expected, <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/indiana-hoosiers" class="sbn-auto-link">Indiana Hoosiers</a> and <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/purdue-boilermakers" class="sbn-auto-link">Purdue Boilermakers</a>?</p>
<p>Flood and company could, but I am skeptical - as I am sure other Big Ten football programs are, however, they will all gladly take a conference "W" each season.</p>
<p>Understanding this move was many made because of football, I'd also like to mention the impact on other sports, especially the men's basketball program which seemingly is always in an uphill battle.</p>
<p>With the departures of Syracuse, Pitt and West Virginia, along with the additions of other sub-par programs like <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/smu-mustangs" class="sbn-auto-link">SMU Mustangs</a>, <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/houston-cougars" class="sbn-auto-link">Houston Cougars</a> and <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/central-florida-knights" class="sbn-auto-link">Central Florida Knights</a>, the future of Rutgers basketball, under the leadership of head coach Mike Rice, had a shot of becoming a contender.</p>
<p>Now, Rice will have a harder time recruiting local NYC players, which were possibly excited about annually playing at Madison Square Garden - a plug Syracuse hoops no longer has.</p>
<p>Rice and Co. could use, "we're the Big Ten's New York College Team," but that just doesn't flow as well as, "we're committed to being the Big East's New York College Team." That slogan can now only be used by Steve Lavin and the St. John's Red Storm, which is way ahead of the Scarlet Knights on the recruiting trail.</p>
<p>In conclusion, this move by Rutgers could be what's best for the university in the short term and overall financially, but I am not buying its great for the program in terms of wins for the athletic department - and correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that the whole purpose of being a college athlete?</p>
<p>I am not dumb, I understand college sports is just as much as a business as professional sports. That's why the BCS and the current bowl system has stuck around for as long as it has; the same could be said about why the NCAA and television networks are able to make billions of dollars off college athletes that will never see a dime of the revenue.</p>
<p>I get why Rutgers is making this move, money talks, especially when your athletic department is losing money at a scary rate (<a href="http://deadspin.com/5879609/by-bolting-for-the-tampa-bay-bucs-greg-schiano-is-fulfilling-rutgerss-football-dreams">about $26.8 millon per year</a>), and it truly is a honor to call yourself a Big Ten member.</p>
<p>But I am sorry, you will never sell me that this will help Rutgers win. It just another way to pay the bills and fill the pockets of those in charge.</p>
https://newyork.sbnation.com/rutgers-scarlet-knights-football/2012/11/20/3670314/big-ten-expansion-rutgers-football-basketball-marylandJared Smith2012-11-20T10:27:12-05:002012-11-20T10:27:12-05:00Rutgers announces 2 p.m. press conference
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<p>The Scarlet Knights will announce its move to the Big Ten Conference in a 2 p.m. press conference.</p> <p>The Rutgers University athletic department <a href="https://twitter.com/RUAthletics/status/270905657585172480">will hold a 2 p.m. press conference Tuesday</a>. Its expected the presser will be to officially announce the schools' departure from the Big East Conference to join the Big Ten Conference.</p>
<p>The Scarlet Knights, led by athletic director Tim Pernetti, have been rumored to be the second school in the Big Ten's expansion plans, as The University of Maryland officially accepted an invitation to join the league on Monday.</p>
<p>According to multiple reports, the Big Ten wanted to expand the conference's national footprint by adding Rutgers' television market of New York City and New Jersey. The move <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/pete_thamel/11/18/big-ten-expansion-tv-money/index.html">could help the league increase its annual worth</a> to as much as $200 million.</p>
<p>Its estimated the Scarlet Knights will bring in an extra $18 million a year in revenue.</p>
<p>Rutgers departure from the Big East will end a 21-year partnership. The Scarlet Knights were added as a football-playing member in 1991, and in all sports in '95.</p>
https://newyork.sbnation.com/rutgers-scarlet-knights-football/2012/11/20/3670856/rutgers-big-ten-acc-press-conferenceJared Smith2012-11-19T12:25:29-05:002012-11-19T12:25:29-05:00Rutgers will likely follow Maryland to Big 10
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<p>The University of Maryland has approved a move to the Big Ten Conference, and Rutgers University is expected to do the same Tuesday according to ESPN's Brent McMurphy.</p> <p>The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/maryland-terrapins">Maryland Terrapins</a> athletic program official accepted an invite to join the Big Ten Conference, <a href="http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/8651934/maryland-terrapins-accept-invitation-join-big-ten">according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy and Dana O'Neil</a>, and now the rest of the conference realignment dominoes, which heavily include the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/rutgers-scarlet-knights">Rutgers Scarlet Knights</a>, will now fall.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20121118/NJSPORTS0210/311180040/Rutgers-awaits-Maryland-decision-Big-Ten-defection?odyssey=nav%7Chead&nclick_check=1">According to the Daily Record's Keith Sargeant</a>, Rutgers University is expected to follow suit and apply for a membership in the Big Ten, which would add the TV markets of New York City and New Jersey.</p>
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<p>A source familiar with the situation said Sunday that if Maryland opts to leave, Rutgers could announce its intentions to join the Big Ten as early as Tuesday.</p>
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<p><i>(<b>Update: </b><a href="http://Sources%20told%20ESPN's%20McMurphy%20the%20announcement%20will%20be%20made%20Tuesday.">Sources have told ESPN's McMurphy</a>, Rutgers will announce Tuesday.) </i></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/TomLuicci/status/270566953679192065">The Star-Ledger's Tom Luicci is reporting</a> Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti has authority to accept any conference invite, and does not need a Board of Governors approval.</p>
<p>That means the decision to leave the Big East Conference for the Big Ten can be made more quickly. If Pernetti does except an invite from the Big Ten its expected to help earn the school<a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/pete_thamel/11/18/big-ten-expansion-tv-money/index.html"> millions of more dollars in revenue</a> -- <a href="https://twitter.com/dave_heller/status/270449390618025984">according to Dave Heller</a>, a <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/wisconsin-badgers">Wisconsin Badgers</a> blogger for the Journal Sentinel, the Big East annually pays each league member $6 million per year while the Big Ten pays out over $24 million.</p>
<p>Luicci is also reporting that Rutgers could accept an invitation today if one is formally extended.</p>
<p>Interestingly, the Scarlet Knights' possible move to the Big Ten could come days before they possibly lock up the league's automatic BCS bowl berth. Currently, Rutgers is 9-1 overall and 5-0 in the Big East, and needs a victory over the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/pittsburgh-panthers">Pittsburgh Panthers</a> this Saturday and loss by the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/louisville-cardinals">Louisville Cardinals</a> to achieve that feat.</p>
<p>If Rutgers doesn't lock up the conference title this week, it can Nov. 29 when it faces the Cardinals in a head-to-head match up at High Point Solutions Stadium.</p>
<p>-- For more on this story check back to<a href="http://newyork.sbnation.com/"> SB Nation New York</a>.</p>
https://newyork.sbnation.com/rutgers-scarlet-knights-football/2012/11/19/3666454/big-ten-conference-realignment-football-rutgers-marylandJared Smith2012-11-18T10:07:13-05:002012-11-18T10:07:13-05:00Rutgers, Maryland to Big 10? 'Dream scenario'
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<p>Rutgers and Maryland could be moving from the Big East and ACC to the Big 10 conference. We examine the reaction from Rutgers faithful.</p> <p>When news broke Saturday that Rutgers and Maryland <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2012/11/17/3659322/maryland-rutgers-big-ten-conference-realignment/in/2257901">could be joining the Big 10</a> the folks at SB Nation's Rutgers website, <a href="http://www.onthebanks.com/2012/11/17/3659422/end-game">On The Banks</a>, jumped for joy, saying "our moment of deliverance may be at hand."</p>
<p>Here is a little more reaction from On The Banks:</p>
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<p>Everyone involved with Rutgers athletics knows that Tim Pernetti is an elite athletic director, and there have been pretty strong hints that he's been working the Big Ten and ACC hard for the past few years. Just because he was not publicly groveling like UConn officials does not mean that Tim was not doing all he could for us. He was, and patience was in order. The Big East's television contract was about to expire, and with NBC ready to pay Big East teams a rumored 15 million dollars a year, it reasons that the powers that be in college football were never going to allow that to happen. They knew that Tim would win over NBC, that time was ticking to make a decision, and all of the other advantages that Rutgers brings to the table with football, television markets, and academics were also working in our favor. This is the dream he fought for, that Greg Schiano, Bob Mulcahy, and Richard McCormick all fought for, and if this happens it is a vindication of their overwhelming foresight and determination in the midst of endless naysayers. It would have been so easy to give up, but we persevered and survived, stronger for it even.</p>
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<p>The move seems to depend more at this point in time on Maryland than it does on Rutgers. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2012/11/politi_moving_to_the_big_ten_i.html">Steve Politi of the Star-Ledger</a> explains:</p>
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<p>Rutgers has been down this road before. Multiple sources within the university community were cautiously optimistic late today, but any potential move is contingent on Maryland figuring out a way to pay (or avoid) a $50 million exit fee from the ACC to become the 13th member. <br><br> The sources insist the massive sum won’t be an obstacle. Still, Maryland is a charter member of the ACC and is a basketball school at heart. There will be a faction within its leadership that will be against any move away from its roots, even for a much bigger financial payout. <br><br> For Rutgers, there will be no such hesitation. This move not only makes sense on every level, it’s a dream scenario for an athletic program that has feared, after dedicating so many resources to its resurgence, it would end up on the outside looking in as the college landscape continues to shift. <br><br> "The Big Ten is the dream scenario," [former Rutgers athletic director Bob] Mulcahy said. "That’s what I always felt. I felt the combination of land grant universities and research universities, plus athletics, Rutgers would fit right in."</p>
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<p>Your thoughts, Rutgers fans?</p>
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https://newyork.sbnation.com/rutgers-scarlet-knights-football/2012/11/18/3661358/rutgers-maryland-to-big-10-big-east-acc-conference-realignmentEd Valentine