Totally agree. She's the one that got Maryland into this mess from the get-go. She knew that robbing Peter to pay Paul would hurt UMD sooner than later, and that's why she ran off to NC State while leaving the athletic department in complete financial disarray. The amount of blunders she made were countless and Kevin Anderson inherited a disaster.
I don't have any connection to UMD, but I follow the school as it is metro DC's full-fledged Division I athletic program and I am now a Maryland taxpayer and I want the school to represent the metro area well. If you need any more proof how clueless Yow is (and there is more than plenty of proof), look no further than her press conference rant during the introduction of Mark Gottfried as NC State men's bball coach. I basically know this verbatim: "I don't have a reputation across all of men's basketball as being difficult to work with, I have a reputation for not getting along with Gary Williams, who has repeatedly tried to sabotage the search. C'mon now." Yeah, Debbie, don't hold yourself back admitting you couldn't do any better than Mark Gottfried because you perceive Gary to be fucking with you (no need for that, everyone with a pulse or even a near .500 record in D-1 bball saw how she treated Gary and wanted nothing to do with her) and show how you lack any sort of accountability bone in your body. Just pass the blame onto someone else. What a piece of work.
Yow and her cronies bet the farm on expanding Byrd Stadium during the cheap credit/boom era and they went bust, badly. Unfortunately with D-1 athletics, much like Wall Street, those who are truly to blame for problems not only are out of the reach of justice but receive golden parachutes and higher perches as a reward. Every single athlete whose sport gets cut should sent a nasty letter to Yow or at least seek her out and deliver a nice middle finger. Also, UMD also over extended itself with as many team sports as it had. It had the most sports, but had the least amount of spending per athlete in the entire ACC. Not exactly a blue print for success nor smart spending.
2011 will certainly go down as one of the darkest years for UMD athletics. Shitcan the reigning ACC Coach of the Year because the school overextended itself on Byrd Stadium renovations and hire a demagogue who took at 8-4 team and turned it into a 2-10 squad, all while declaring it to be a rebuilding season (but hey, at least they're not wearing earrings, do rags, baseball caps or last names on their jerseys), cut 1/3 of the athletic programs because the athletic department overextended itself during the boom years (see a pattern here?) under an AD who took off two years ago and see the school's flagship sport likely struggle to reach .500 on the year because the legendary coach retired in a huff because he couldn't keep the talent around (not that I blame Gary, but the timing was bad for the school). I hate to say it because I know the nerves will never not be raw for you true fans, but at least nobody died....