Barbour is getting paid $1 Million per..........by PSU (PSU fans)!.No I don't believe the no handshake was planned by anybody other than the MD players. Yes Barbour might have been up for discussions about how to make it, if not a rivalry, a game that was meaningful because of its history -- her job is to sell tickets, after all. But no, the B10's fine of Maryland makes it pretty clear this was not planned and the B10 was really unhappy to see what transpired and then Edsall's clueless response.
You have to take Franklin with a little grain of salt sometimes. He is always messaging, selling, marketing. His message to his players and to potential recruits needs to be -- we don't really play on MD's or RU's level. We're a Top 10 program once we get our feet under us again. We're PSU and that means we get the players we want from Delmarva.
But Barbour is in a little different position. She wants PSU fans to go to M&T and buy tickets, she wants Maryland fans to come to PSU. She wants the series to be competitive.
If she should have any interest in the "competition" between PSU and UMd it should be to do everything she can to assist in the effort to insure that PSU kicks the shit out of UMd 70-0 EVERY year.
That is how you sell tickets to fill Beaver Stadium.
I'm not saying that is NOT what she is doing......just saying that the contention that Barbour should have ANY INTEREST in assisting UMd in being "competitive" with PSU is silly.