Maryland’s plan to offer free tuition to students who stayed until the final whistle did not fill seats at a Halloween home game against Illinois, which the Illini won 20-17.
Maryland’s plan to offer free tuition to students who stayed until the final whistle did not fill seats at a Halloween home game against Illinois, which the Illini won 20-17.
Free tuition for showing up to a Halloween game, and the seats still stayed empty. Somewhere a dean is drafting a memo blaming “engagement culture” instead of asking the obvious: who pays for a Big Ten ticket and a parking spot in October? Nobody asked what the incentive actually cost the athletic department, or whether anyone ran the numbers on the kids who skipped class to sit through a 20-17 loss.