UMd and Rutgers are two athletic programs that are supreme underachievers. Neither can get out of their own ways.
I am actually disappointed in Maryland. It should not be this hard to put together competent basketball/football programs with the talent in the area. Texas Tech does it while picking up scraps from Texas/A&M and being in the middle of nowhere.
As an alum of the University of Maryland it hurts my heart that we’re not a top 15 program in both Football and Men’s Basketball
A lot of our issues goes back to the death of Len Bias
After his death the school went on probation (given the death penalty) on some bull shyt (Coach Wade gave a car ride to Rudy Archer)
Because of that probation we lost Bryson Dele, Alonzo Mourning (yeah he actually signed to play for MD), Sam Cassell, Donyel Marshall, Lawrence Moten
The probation also affected the football program which led Bobby Ross to leave the program. Guess what he does a few years later? Win a National fuccin championship
Then our AD leaves in the middle of the night to take the job at The Ohio State University
Then Debbie Yow comes in and plays with the accounting books to look like she’s being responsible
but she was robbing Peter to pay Paul. She fucc’s over Gary Williams and Fridge with paying the Women’s BBall asst. coaches more than the Men’s teams Assistants
. She leaves right when shyt’s about to hit the fan
In the process we lost the assoc AD to Oklahoma and the Asst. AD to Oregon now look at both programs
Lastly, leaving Nike for Under Armor has fucc’d us over something terrible. The way we left Nike pissed them off because we were one of the original Nike schools (before UNC and Duke) and they’ve made it a point to screw us. Now Under Armor better come with that NIL bag for Harbor!