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University of Maryland’s Presidents Home to be razed, rebuilt with private funds, link to Washington Post, note by Larry Eder

Larry Ederby Larry Eder
January 5, 2012
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An interesting story about the University of Maryland, which is proposing the closing down of eight teams, including Men’s Indoor & outdoor track & field and the Men’s cross country programs. The teams have been told, that if they raise endowments by June 30, 2012, to give them budgets for the next eight years, they will survive. It will be a tough task in these economic times. 

Perhaps part of the answer lies in the the private fund raising plan that will be used to rebuild the former President’s Home….that, is a good message to the athletes of the eight teams facing elimination at the University of Maryland. Read on for my modest suggestions….

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While I was in Santa Clara University, I
was always told that, as a student-athlete, we were held to a higher
standard. No excuses when I ran 100 miles a week, my papers were due at
the same time as everyone elses. The late Sam Adams, the long time
director of athletics at UC Santa Barbara, reminded me one time (perhaps
many), that first of all, coaches are educators. Professors always
reminded us, (and I hear those voices in my ears each day, gently
reminding me) that what we do is as important as what we say.

Imagine
my surprise when I was sent the following article regarding the
University of Maryland. You remember the University of Maryland. That is
the program that recommended the elimination of  Men’s Indoor track & field, Outdoor track
& field and cross country, along with five other men’s and women’s
teams, in order to overcome a deficit that could approach $17 million,
if changes were not made soon in their overall sport budgets. Of the teams on the chopping block, five
sports teams were men and three were women.

Soon after this proposed cut was announced, the teams got to work and
began private fund raising. University President Wallace Loh had noted, that if they could
provide private funding by June 30, 2012 for the next 8 years, the
sports could survive. A tough challenge, but, the offer was there.  

Track & Field is the sport that gives more men and women
opportunities for higher education than any other sport. Track &
Field is one of the sports that, along with soccer & swimming, have
some of the highest average GPAs of all student-athletes. Track &
Field is also the sport that gives more men and women of color a chance
at higher education. Surely, as one coach so eloquently phrased it, the 8
sports in question were not the only reasons for the UM athletic
department budget overrides.

The article of note shows that the Presidents’ home will be rebuilt, as it is not a proper site for fund raising! And, as the budgets were cut to the university, a private group, will handle the fund raising to rebuild the Presidents’ Home.  Please read the story: 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/demolition-of-university-of-marylands-presidents-home-to-be-considered-by-board/2012/01/04/gIQAjGYaZP_story.html
 
President Loh is in a tough spot. The President’s home is a symbol where the University benefactors judge the entire University. A suitable home is needed. We would like to offer a modest suggestion: As part of the private fund raising for the President’s home, why not support the building of an endowment to be shared by the eight proposed to be cut sports?  Think of how many student athletes, especially especially young men and women of color who gain access to the world through their education, both in sports and in the classroom, at university?

Many lessons are being taught in this series of situations. Some are good, like self reliance, some, I fear, are not, like blaming the quietest persons in the room. Surely, the eight teams to be cut are not the sports most responsible for the over runs. Yet, they are faced with extinction. I am not sure that is fair.  

 Perhaps the fund raising team approach one of Maryland’s prized corporate supporters of collegiate sports, such as a company based in
Baltimore, that is launching a running line, and makes tremendous sports apparel, to support an endowment to keep college athletes running, jumping and throwing?
  

 An even more modest suggestion: It would take a lot more guts from a University president to say, that they would not even consider building a new Presidents’ home until the future of several of their most historic sports programs are decided. But, sometimes, I am told, that I live in a dream world.

To learn more about the cuts at the University of Maryland, please read the following:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/maryland-commission-recommends-athletic-department-cut-eight-varsity-teams/2011/11/14/gIQAlqeTMN_story.html

To learn more about how the eight teams are doing to raise their endowments, please read the following:

 http://www.journalism.umd.edu/cns/wire/2011-editions/12-December-editions/111215-Thursday/SportsCuts_CNS-UMCP.html

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  • Larry Eder

    Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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