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Well Edsall never tried to get this site shut down and put you out of a job, to my knowledge.

It's a stupid apples to oranges comparison either way. Yow at least had a few years of peace and stability. Edsall had a week.

so the youngest coach in the ACC was also the lowest paid -- there's a story!

Rob's base pay was doubled by the time he left, no mention of that Jeff.

nor did any other University employee, there was a state issued salary freeze for almost two yeas.
DY eventually got the assistants raises as she changed their job descriptions to include fundraising activities (it was a little loop hole that was found). I think it was more a case of that the coaches (Ehsan in particular) was going to leave.

Funny how she found away around the salary freeze AFTER it was made public.

Listen, I have no dog in this fight. As is the case on these boards with DY I know a lot of people have a personal vendetta against her. I'm just for about posting facts. Using statistics in a moment of time without telling the full story gets deceiving.

As I posted earlier, DY didn't do a good job. She left the Ath Dept with a structural deficit of $3.5 million. Making up or distorting facts aren't necessary. Rangoon will do way more damage than just a $3.5 million annual deficit.

It's a luxury to be able to fly to road games.

That was basically the problem with Yow. Instead of looking to put football and basketball a step ahead of their peers she preferred to spread that money to the non-revenue teams. While I can appreciate the sentiment, the fact was that Debbie was hurting those non-revenue teams in the long run because she was hurting her revenue sports and the money was shrinking.

Edsall has been a train wreck, however if he doesn't improve than he'll be gone either next year or the following year. An AD with the mindset of Yow's doesn't get fired in a year or two, they stay in their office for 16 years and bury an athletic department into the red.

Booth had no experience prior to starting either, Chuck Driesell had one year of D-I coaching experience in the previous 10years prior to his arrival. Again more facts.

It's silly to debate how or why the raises were put through, but the article was written in Dec 2009 and DY got the raises in January of 2010. So in one month's time she was able to put through, in an extremely beauracratic process, pay raises that went against a state issued salary freeze. Just to get things straight.

again let's talk facts. She left the dept with a "structural deficit" of $3.5 million (structural is Kevin's term).
That's the difference in one good football year and one bad one (12,000 seats).
Basketball revenues also declined in the last few years, I love Gary, but let's face it he mailed it in on recruiting the last 10 years and refused to play the AAU game the last 5. That has its effect too.

Bingo....that said, this question is like asking would u rather die by hanging or gunshot. The fact that Edsall is being discussed as a choice shows how bad his reputation is with the fan base. I've cast the Edsall hiring this way.....In terms of the negative impact, it is the biggest negative impact to Maryland athletics since the death of Len Bias.

this is so depressing