By now, there would have been several meetings among business merchants and community leaders in Westminster. Some trees and street lights would have been tinted purple.

Sam's Bagels would have purple bagels and Harry's Main Street Restaurant would have Ravens banners and T-shirts in the window.

Instead, McDaniel College banners hang around town and the buzz that swirled every year before the last two is gone.

There will be no Ravens training camp in Carroll County for the second straight year. Last summer, there was hope for the future, but soon after the NFL lockout ended, the Ravens decided to have training camp at their facility in Owings Mills. In December, the team announced the shift to the Under Armour Performance Center would be permanent.

"I really would like to see it come back," said Ann Hyman, 40, a manager at Applebee's restaurant in Westminster. "It really was a good time."

But it wasn't only about business for Hyman. One of her two sons got an autograph from Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco on the first day of training camp one year.

Those days are gone, and in this college town, a lot of people have moved on as well.

Dating back to when the school was called Western Maryland College, the campus and playing fields at McDaniel served as the training camp home of the old Baltimore Colts from 1953 through 1971, and for the Ravens starting in 1996.

Norm Fischbach, 63, enjoyed the best of training camp in Westminster with both teams.

"I've been a football fan my entire life," said Fischbach, a door and window specialist at Home Depot. "I was an old Colts fan and became a Redskins fan when I couldn't accept the fact the Colts moved. Obviously, when the team came back to Baltimore, I became a Ravens fan on Day 1.

"But in four or five years, we won't even remember they had training camp at Westminster," said Fischbach. "It will be just a fact of life and that's how it works with everything. My initial anger has decreased over time. Trust me, in ten years, kids won't know."

McDaniel officials made adjustments after the Ravens' departure. The campus is busy with events, and the playing fields and stadium are routinely filled. This week, McDaniel hosted a "King of the Hill" lacrosse tournament for club programs from across the country.

But even Ethan Seidel, McDaniel's vice president of administration and finance, admits there is nothing like hosting training camp and the more than 112,000 spectators who flocked to Westminster to watch the Ravens in 2010. The college is currently rebuilding its football stadium, and the Ravens donated $100,000 in May for the project.

"I miss having the Ravens here and the excitement generated," Seidel said. "It was nice to have the crowds and publicity. But through the activities we have on campus, that void filled up pretty fast and we've filled up the time as far as using our facilities.

"It was great to have training camp here because it brought alumni back and put people here on our campus that might not have visited, but I think the team's absence has had more impact on the city and the business community than our campus," he said.

Seidel is correct. Training camp always served as an economic shot in the arm for Westminster, adding as much as $2 million, according to past estimates by Carroll County officials.

But having the Ravens in Westminster was also about having civic pride. On some nights, team members would go to area restaurants, bars, or ice cream parlors.

They were considered locals by the people who lived and worked in Westminster.

"You'd see those guys at the 4-H Fair where they had the pulled pork and grilled turkey," said Hyman. "They'd stop in here [to Applebee's] from time to time, but we wouldn't bombard them. … How often can you go to Sam's Bagels and see Joe Flacco?

There are millions of memories. Fischbach attended the first Ravens training camp in 1996 when there were few spectators. Attendance grew slowly over the first few years and blossomed after the Ravens won the Super Bowl in 2001.