Rank: Sports Legend - Posted by sportznut628Nice try. The problems started when lefty left. Don't take my word for it go back and look for your self. Lefy took the blame and the school took a dive.When Lefty left so did a lot of fund raiser. Fact
Rank: Sports Legend - Posted by onceacarolinafan- Posted by sportznut628Nice try. The problems started when lefty left. Don't take my word for it go back and look for your self. Lefy took the blame and the school took a dive.When Lefty left so did a lot of fund raiser. Fact
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aerobics and tumbling) were cut.
That move drew the ire of many, especially after it was revealed in January that the school was financing a $7.2 million reconstruction of Loh's presidential mansion.
Rank: Sports Legend WOW, DY is awesome!!!- Posted by WolfPackInTheHizzouse
Donors flocked to the department's primary fundraising arm, the Terrapin Club, helping the school build up its coffers. As the money flowed in, Yow expanded the athletic department, funneling money into non-revenue-generating sports, and she commenced a decade-long facelift to several athletic facilities. Starting in 2002 and continuing into 2010, Maryland opened the $125 million Comcast Center and the $3 million Terrapin Softball Complex, built a new facility for field hockey and lacrosse, renovated its soccer and baseball facilities and made multiple upgrades to its football offices. To cap it off, Maryland completed a $50.8 million expansion to Tyser Tower at Byrd Stadium in 2009. Byrd Stadium was one of the only ACC football stadiums without luxury seating, so Yow financed a plan that added 64 luxury suites and 440 mezzanine suites.
pretty clear that if the hoops and football teams hadn't started SUCKING so badly, this ship would still be sailing along nicely... with LUXURY ammenities....!!!
I guess they wanted HER to coach those teams!!!
GO DY!!!
she took them from 50 MILL in the bucket, to having a SURPLUS big enough to build grandiose accomodations.... she was clearly the bizzomb!!!
also, I like this extremely TELLING part of the article-
"Gary Williams didn't get along with the department," said Martin Green, a prominent donor who is on the Terrapin Club's executive committee. "A lot of people loved Gary because he won a national championship, but that was 10 years ago. That doesn't pay the bills."
hard to misconstrue that.
poor, poor, sweaty gary.
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A scathing indictment of Dr. Debbie.
- Posted by sportznut628WOW, DY is awesome!!!- Posted by WolfPackInTheHizzouse
Donors flocked to the department's primary fundraising arm, the Terrapin Club, helping the school build up its coffers. As the money flowed in, Yow expanded the athletic department, funneling money into non-revenue-generating sports, and she commenced a decade-long facelift to several athletic facilities. Starting in 2002 and continuing into 2010, Maryland opened the $125 million Comcast Center and the $3 million Terrapin Softball Complex, built a new facility for field hockey and lacrosse, renovated its soccer and baseball facilities and made multiple upgrades to its football offices. To cap it off, Maryland completed a $50.8 million expansion to Tyser Tower at Byrd Stadium in 2009. Byrd Stadium was one of the only ACC football stadiums without luxury seating, so Yow financed a plan that added 64 luxury suites and 440 mezzanine suites.
pretty clear that if the hoops and football teams hadn't started SUCKING so badly, this ship would still be sailing along nicely... with LUXURY ammenities....!!!
I guess they wanted HER to coach those teams!!!
GO DY!!!
she took them from 50 MILL in the bucket, to having a SURPLUS big enough to build grandiose accomodations.... she was clearly the bizzomb!!!
also, I like this extremely TELLING part of the article-
"Gary Williams didn't get along with the department," said Martin Green, a prominent donor who is on the Terrapin Club's executive committee. "A lot of people loved Gary because he won a national championship, but that was 10 years ago. That doesn't pay the bills."
hard to misconstrue that.
poor, poor, sweaty gary.
I think you missed this part
But when Yow left in June 2010 to become athletic director at NC State, she also left the Maryland athletic department with three significant problems: a losing football team, an underachieving basketball team and a mountain of debt.
"The majority of those that (the department) has lost are giving $125-$150 per year as opposed to the type of donor that's giving $20,000-$30,000 per year," said Green. "They've lost the lower echelon. It happens that basketball program is really in the doldrums ever since we won the national championship in 2002 and opened the Comcast Center. We weren't recruiting a lot of top talent and we fell behind in the ACC. You won't fill Comcast without having a successful program."
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