How much has the University of Maryland cut from their football team budget?”
COLLEGE PARK – – For years, the University of Maryland has chartered flights to carry the football team to games at Duke and the other schools in North Carolina. But not this season. In one of many telling symptoms of the rough economy on college athletics, the Terps will travel by bus to and from Duke – a 270-mile trip – for the Oct. 24 game. The university estimates the savings at $80,000. The athletic department is also exploring taking buses one way – and flying the other – for games at Wake Forest on Oct. 10 and North Carolina State on Nov. 7, administrators said in interviews. The athletic department also said it is saving $100,000 by switching to CDs instead of printing media guides. Maryland football coach Ralph Friedgen declined to comment. The moves reflect an economic recession that has curbed fans’ spending on college sports. Season ticket sales for Maryland football games have fallen about 8 percent compared with this time a year ago, according to figures recently supplied
For years, the University of Maryland has chartered flights to carry the football team to games at Duke and the other schools in North Carolina. But not this season. In one of many telling symptoms of the rough economy on college athletics, the Terps will travel by bus to and from Duke – a 270-mile trip – for the Oct. 24 game. The university estimates the savings at $80,000. The athletic department is also exploring taking buses one way – and flying the other – for games at Wake Forest on Oct. 10 and North Carolina State on Nov. 7, administrators said in interviews. The athletic department also said it is saving $100,000 by switching to CDs instead of printing media guides. Maryland football coach Ralph Friedgen declined to comment. The moves reflect an economic recession that has curbed fans’ spending on college sports. Season ticket sales for Maryland football games have fallen about 8 percent compared with this time a year ago, according to figures recently supplied by the athletic
In one of many telling symptoms of the rough economy on college athletics, the Terps will travel by bus to and from Duke – a 270-mile trip – for the Oct. 24 game. The university estimates the savings at $80,000. The athletic department is also exploring taking buses one way – and flying the other – for games at Wake Forest on Oct. 10 and North Carolina State on Nov. 7, administrators said in interviews. The athletic department also said it is saving $100,000 by switching to CDs instead of printing media guides. Maryland football coach Ralph Friedgen declined to comment. The moves reflect an economic recession that has curbed fans’ spending on college sports. Season ticket sales for Maryland football games have fallen about 8 percent compared with this time a year ago, according to figures recently supplied by the athletic department.
