Athletic Director

The first months of a college athletic director's tenure are typically spent getting a feel for the landscape. For Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson, his first seven months included leading a major overhaul that included the messy divorce with a popular football coach who also happens to be an alum and the sudden retirement of one of the country's most respected men's basketball coaches. Add to that the decision to eliminate as many as eight teams. A little more than a year after Anderson replaced Debbie Yow, and you get a feeling of - if not quite have some sympathy for - what he has faced since coming here from Army in October of 2010.

Chesapeake High School athletic director Chip Snyder, who was relieved of his duties pending a school board investigation regarding the Chesapeake wrestling team, has been reinstated to his position, Anne Arundel school officials said Friday. Snyder, who also teaches physical education at the school, was removed from the athletic director position while the school board investigated allegations that procedures weren't followed during a December wrestling trip to the Eastern Shore and that the breakdown in protocol could have diminished students' safety.

More than a week after being placed on paid administrative leave following an on-court confrontation with one of his own players, Morgan State men's basketball coach Todd Bozeman was reinstated Thursday night, a school spokesman said. Bozeman will return to sideline for his team's home game Saturday against North Carolina A&T. Clinton Coleman, a spokesman for Morgan State president David Wilson, said in an interview that "results of the investigation were inconclusive" looking into the incident that led to Bozeman's suspension.

Jeff Parsons has been named the next athletic director at Archbishop Spalding, the school announced Thursday in a news release. Parsons, currently the assistant athletic director, will replace the retiring Lee Dove on July 1. A 1995 Spalding graduate, Parsons has taught business education classes at the school for the last 10 years, was an assistant coach for the boys basketball team and co-chaired the Student Government Association (SGA)...

The attorney for Todd Bozeman said Monday that university administrators violated the Morgan State men's basketball coach's contract and school policy regarding disciplining senior staff members when they placed the 48-year-old coach on paid administrative leave Sunday night. Ricky Lefft, a South Carolina-based attorney, said that neither he nor Bozeman has been made aware by school officials as to why the coach was suspended, and that not being allowed to appeal any action taken against Bozeman was a violation of the contract he signed in 2009.

A year ago today, Kevin Anderson announced that he was firing Ralph Friedgen after the longtime Maryland football coach refused to retire. A year ago today, the mess that is now the Maryland football program began to take hold in College Park. While first-year coach Randy Edsall certainly played a major part in the team's embarrassing 2-10 record in 2011, so did Anderson. In fact, Anderson might be even more responsible. Not only did he hire a coach with a mediocre overall record (74-70)

Shortly after Boo Corrigan was hired as Army's athletic director earlier this year, he found himself talking to a group of graduates of the U.S. Military Academy. Nobody in the room noticed, but Corrigan seemed to be doing a pretty good imitation of a man many consider one of the most influential and respected college athletic administrators of his time. "I found my mannerisms were the same as my dad, the way I was talking," Corrigan recalled. "He's a lot smarter than I am. I called my brother David and said, 'I think I've become Papa Gene.'" The influence of his father, a Baltimore native who was the athletic director at Virginia and Notre Dame before becoming the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference, was what directed his now 44-year old son back into what essentially was the family business.

Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson plans to meet with football coach Randy Edsall Saturday night as part of a "top to bottom" review of a football program that ended the season with a 2-10 record that Anderson called "unacceptable. " Edsall's job is safe. "There's no question in my mind I got the right guy here," Anderson said Friday in an interview. But neither Anderson nor others connected to the program would rule out the possibility of changes to Edsall's nine-member staff following a season in which Maryland lost its last eight games.

The BWI Business Partnership welcomes University of Maryland Director of Athletics Kevin Anderson as keynote speaker for its October Signature Breakfast. The breakfast will be held Wednesday, Oct. 19 from 7:45 to 9:15 a.m. at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Baltimore, BWI Airport, 890 Elkridge Landing Road inLinthicum. As athletic director, Anderson manages the Terrapins' $59 million budget and the work of more than 180 employees. He will offer his outlook for the Terps and the importance of the sports program to the college.

Margaret Case, the retired athletic director for two girls high schools, died of cancer July 29 at Stella Maris Hospice. The former Timonium resident was 90. Born Grace Margaret "Peggy" Sherman in Baltimore and raised on Guilford Avenue, she was a 1939 graduate of Notre Dame Preparatory School. Her yearbook described her as "rollicksome, a firm friend, famed for her ready wit and amusing remarks, not overfond of lessons, a natural actress. " As a young woman she appeared in "Have Another?"