Old article about Maryland's move to the Big Ten (link)
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A discussion below triggered this: I remember researching and writing this article back in December 2012, shortly after Maryland announced they were leaving for the Big Ten. I really enjoyed writing it, and I thought you guys might like reading it, 4.5 years later.
The board’s willful violation of the state’s open meetings act sums up the whole situation: a president who is ignorant of college athletics (Loh), a provost from the Midwest who had been on the job for mere weeks (Rankin), an athletic director from the other side of the country (Anderson), negotiations conducted in secret with the Big Ten while not allowing the ACC to respond, and a Board of Regents that rushed the vote through in a private meeting held in violation of a state statute … that’s how Maryland fans were ripped from their conference home of nearly 60 years.
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Link: Maryland’s Defection: An Outsider’s Perspective
Posted: 04/11/2017 at 11:11AM
Well at least Dr. Wallace Loh is now "In the Big Leagues". -- HOO86 04/11/2017 12:25PM
