Army Athletic Director Kevin Anderson is expected to be named the new athletic director at Maryland on Tuesday according to multiple reports, filling a leadership void atop the department created when Debbie Yow unexpectedly left the university to take the same position at North Carolina State in July.
The move comes just two weeks after the university tapped former Iowa provost Wallace Loh to be its next president. Loh and acting president Nariman Farvardin chose Anderson over two other finalists; Connecticut AD Jeff Hathaway, who Yow recommended for the job when she left, and Buffalo AD Warde Manuel.
“Kevin has built a solid program of competitive and academic success at the U.S. Military Academy, supporting the student-athlete and demonstrating that academics and athletics can go hand in hand,” said Loh. “I am convinced that his leadership will raise Maryland Athletics to even greater heights. We are delighted to welcome Kevin into the Terrapin family.”
Anderson, who worked for Army since December of 2004 and also worked as an associate athletic director at Oregon State, doesn’t have the same track record in big-time athletics that Hathaway does, and one anonymous Terps’ booster told The Post questioned Anderson’s ability to resurrect the university’s football program.
But Terps’ basketball coach Gary Williams called Anderson a “coach’s AD” and Anderson does have plenty of experience in fund-raising.
More on this as it develops…