Before he resigned as Maryland athletic director in April after a six-month “professional development sabbatical,” Kevin Anderson, used $15,000 in athletic department funds to hire an attorney to represent two football players accused of sexual misconduct, Maryland’s student newspaper, The Diamondback, reported Thursday.
According to a statement from the university Thursday night, Anderson failed to cut ties with the attorney when ordered to do so by campus officials. Though no NCAA bylaws were broken, the then-athletic director showed “a serious lack of judgment,” the university said in the statement.
According to Katie Lawson, the university’s Chief Communications Officer, campus officials first learned about the arrangement between the then-athletic director and the two football players on Aug.