In recent seasons, the University of Maryland athletic program has seen all too much red.
There were the vast patches of empty red seats inside Xfinity Center early last season even though the men's basketball team went on to win 28 games and make the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2010.
More significantly, there was millions of dollars in red ink in recent years and mounting debt — the results of capital expenses and the school paying $31 million to settle an exit fee dispute with the Atlantic Coast Conference, which it left in 2014 for the Big Ten.