Earth to Yow. We aren't Michigan or Nebraska. They don't need to allow beer to sell out their suites. They're both football schools while we're a bball school. There's no way we sell the suites w/out alcohol and just change the policy now instead of waiting and changing it when we aren't close to selling them out.

It will be interesting to see how the policy affects sale/lease of the suites.
I believe about 10 have already been sold, and I assume the buyers know of the policy.
I think if the sales slow down or stop, and reason given is the no alcohol policy, the admin. may change and allow alcohol, like UVA and VTech.

As a University of Maryland alumni and father of a college student I applaud the University for this no alcohol policy. The enjoyment of attending Maryland football and basketball games is greatly enhanced by not having to deal with drunken, foul mouthed and obnoxious "fans". Tailgating before the game should more than fill the need for alcohol without encouraging fans to continue drinking for 2 or 3 more hours during the game.

I, and many Ravens fans I know, have had enough of the public drunkenness, cursing, fighting and disgusting behavior displayed Sunday after Sunday at M&T. If I had small children there is no way I would even consider subjecting them to that by taking them to a game. NFL games are a disgrace and it’s only a matter of time before an alcohol related death after a game results in civil action.

With the profits generated, once you start selling alcohol at games there's no turning back. If Maryland has to sell alcohol to sell tickets or suites then people are no longer coming to watch the game, they're coming to drink. Universities should take the high road and not succumb to profits fueled by Budweiser and Coors.
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You don't have to sell alcohol and you don't have to "give it to them," in Ms. Yow's words. Just let the suite owners stock their suites with alcohol on days prior to games. That way, no alcohol is entering the stadium on game day. This is a very limited issue, no one is talking about selling alcohol throughout the stadium or to anyone outside the suites. I don't know why Michigan and Nebraska qualify as better company than our ACC neighbors to the south either, particularly when we may actually be competing for corporate suit sales with the latter group.

If I had the money to buy a suite and you said no alcohol, I would tell you to KEEP the suite. I should be able to bring my own alcohol in and give it to my guests without you worrying that I might let it get out among the scuttlefish.

That policy is ridiculous.

"If Maryland has to sell alcohol to sell tickets or suites then people are no longer coming to watch the game, they're coming to drink."

Well said KANEFORGOV

How funny will it be to see the security guards patting down the old folks headed for the suites and see them dropping bottles of scotch into the trash bins next to the students dropping cans of Beast Light into those same bins.

I'm glad they aren't selling alcohol at the games. People drink enough at the tailgate. Attend a Redskins game and you'll see how harrowing it is dealing with super inebriated people at the stadium.

I've seen some people so drunk BEFORE the game started, that they couldn't make it to Byrd stadium and sat in the parking lot.