The recommendation would affect 166 Terrapin student-athletes, based on this year’s rosters. And it was offered, according to the Nov. 11 cover letter to Maryland President Wallace D. Loh, “reluctantly and regretfully and with great anguish.”
The final decision about whether to pare the number of Maryland varsity teams from 27 to 19 — or to some other number — belongs to Loh, who appointed the 17-member President’s Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics in July, concerned that the Terrapins’ athletics program has spent more than it generates for several years.
Maryland Athletic Director Kevin Anderson was not a member of the commission. But by Monday evening, he had met with coaches and athletes of all eight teams.
“Besides a relative dying, this has been one of the worst times in my life, having to face these young people and tell them of the possibility of us discontinuing their programs,” Anderson said in a telephone interview.
Anderson said he was still studying the document and would have a formal response soon.
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this will effect our chances of landing Ronald Darby being as though he said he wants to run track and play football in college.
· 11/12/2019