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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2049261, member: 780"]
No one at Maryland wanted to go to the B1G. No coaches, no athletes, no students, no boosters, no alumni, no local fans, no one.

But Maryland had no choice to go to the B1G because of its athletic financial sqeeze. The State law in Maryland says that Athletics cannot get money from the General Fund. The Athletic Department has to be self-supporting. (Contrast this to Rutgers where the Athletic Department has been tapping into the General Fund and Student Fees to offset a $26M a year deficit for many years.)

When the Fridge came in and Maryland felt the money from renewed interest in football, they doubled down and increased the stadium size anticipating more revenue. Football never lived up to the promise of the early Fridge years. Now Maryland had it's old revenue problems plus the cost of a bigger Byrd stadium.

When the B1G came calling, Maryland had no choice but to go for strictly financial reasons.

Maryland would have been a great mini-Rivalry for SU in the ACC. We could have competed with Maryland in football. The BB rivalry would have started almost immediaely and the lacrosse one as well.

Maryland has a huge contingent of out-of-State students that come from the areas that SU draws its student s (NJ, NY, and SE PA)
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