(09-08-2021 10:25 AM)ccd494 Wrote:  

(09-08-2021 06:37 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(09-07-2021 08:32 PM)ccd494 Wrote:  This has been my point whenever people asked for realignment's biggest losers- Rutgers is on the list.

Great, you have millions more in revenues, but you need to spend even more millions to try to be competitive. Being in a G5 conference, spending $20M and making $15M, and winning 6-8 games a year is preferable to being P5, spending $80M to make $60M, and winning 2-4 games a year.

I disagree entirely. IMO Rutgers is basically the biggest winner. This is a school with poor athletics and it was elevated from the G-ranks (as the rump Big East was surely going to be a G) to the most lucrative conference at the time, the B1G. That's a better deal anyone else got.

Way, way better to be a bumbler in the B1G than a shining star in a G-league. Infinitely better, IMO.

I dunno, taking out a mortgage you can't afford to move into a neighborhood with millionaires doesn't make you a millionaire. It just hastens your bankruptcy.

The Big Ten may be lucrative, but if Rutgers still needs to spend more on athletics than it reaps from the Big Ten media deal, and it doesn't have the fan support it used to, and it doesn't win games? What the heck is the point?

But in this situation, the neighborhood of millionaires is paying gobs and gobs of money just to move in. So your analogy doesn't really work.