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Once Maryland’s exit became public, the backlash concerned university officials. Maryland’s police department commissioned two officers to accompany Loh around the clock and recommended his wife leave for Seattle. Police cars remained parked in front of his home at all times.
“I don’t know if I was in danger,” Loh said. “I can only assume that they wouldn’t be doing this unless they felt that there was a possibility of something happening.”
The heat intensified around Loh until the financial details of Maryland’s Big Ten deal were revealed. Loh says he didn’t leak the numbers; he believes Big Ten officials did so to diffuse the vitriol around the Terps’ ACC exit. To an extent, the anger dissipated.
“The alternative was then no more athletics at University of Maryland, because the amount that we were getting from the ACC was not enough,” Loh said. “Had it been enough, I would never have looked at going elsewhere. So the choice was to have or not to have intercollegiate athletics?
“You had to find a conference that’s willing to give you the money. The ACC doesn’t have that kind of money. There’s only one source; it is the Big Ten.”