University of Maryland: Financial Support from Terrapin Nation Cooling Off?

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Published: August 12, 2009

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... of Maryland cut just over three percent of its athletic budget recently, which will result in a few more bus trips and a few less media guides for the athletic programs.

I can’t imagine that the football and men’s basketball staff will actually complain about taking buses to ACC games in Virginia and North Carolina, because that’s long been the life of the mid-major programs that bus in to take a beating courtesy of the Terps for a sizable paycheck.

On the other hand, the Terp boosters have to feel bad about this kind of adjustment over such small change; $300,000 for football and just over $147,000 for men’s basketball is about 25 phone calls to local dentists, lawyers, and business owners with Terrapin ties.

Schools everywhere are taking measures to save money, but I’ve yet to hear Duke, North Carolina, or any other institution in the Terps’ line of fire for conference relevance taking such cuts.

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