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This week we’re all back to the grind in College Park, pulling the belt a bit tighter, stretching out the hours to get things covered for the students and of course looking at below-the-fold news that foretells of more furloughs and cuts. The uninterrupted service in spite of such austere times is a remarkable display of dedication by so many people who believe in what we’re doing.

Too bad leadership doesn’t feel the same way.

It has been a couple weeks now since campus announced it needed a new football coach. Ralph Friedgen is out at Maryland – at a cost of $2 million to buy out his next year contract, on top of the cost of paying the new coach at the same time.

Football? Really? We’re all eating furlough days and reduced health care benefits in order to pay for a freaking football coach?

We long for the days when out-of-touch leadership would only invite the hungry rabble to simply eat cake. Cake would have been a lot cheaper than a new football coach.