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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 715938, member: 780"]
My observation and experience is that sports fans tend to hold grudges for a very long time. Witness the 40+ SU non-relationship with Notre Dame after the disputed game in 1961. Maryland certainly didn't need to give Marylanders a reason to not support them. There's sooo many other things to do in DC on a Saturday afternoon in the Fall.
 
Of course, all might be forgotten and forgiven after a decade or so. That is, if Maryland can be at least as competitive as they were in the ACC ... which is not all that high a bar to set. If not, expect to see a very long period of active discontent.
 
Its important to remember why Maryland did this and who did it (The President and the AD, who are both "outsiders" with B1G roots. It was done only because they were in such a hole financially and this was the only way they saw with even a possibility of getting out of their conundrum. The UNCP administration has tried to downplay that fact. But if they were't in a financial hole with no clear way out they would have never moved to the B1G.
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