Maryland's P.J. Gallo to leave team after 2015 season for Wall Street job

Maryland tight end P.J. Gallo has opted to leave the wilted gridiron of College Park for the imposing urban jungle of lower Manhattan.

Gallo will soon leave the Terrapins program, forgoing his final season of eligibility in 2016 to accept a job with venerable investing firm Goldman Sachs after completing a 10-week internship.

"It was actually an easier conversation than I thought it was going to be because he was very supportive of it," Gallo, who is expected to graduate from Maryland in the spring then move to New York, said of his conversation about leaving with coach Randy Edsall, according to Roman Stubbs of the Washington Post. "I made the right decision for myself, for my future. Hopefully, five years from now, I can still look back and say it was the right decision."

Gallo has been hired as an analyst with the firm's security division, and said he felt relieved after speaking with Edsall, believing he made the right move after landing an impressive and rare professional opportunity on Wall Street.

During the intense internship, Gallo also juggled the demands of the impending football season, working out at New York University's gym after leaving the office.

"It was a very intense 10-week program that he went through. But I think definitely the intensity of playing Maryland football helped him through that," Gallo's mother, Patty, said. "When he was at Maryland, he had school and football to work on, and that's a lot. This was different. It was out of his comfort zone."