One year before offensive lineman Jordan McNair died after collapsing at a team workout, Maryland President Wallace D. Loh chose to not approve a proposal to change athletic health care at the university, according to The Washington Post.
Kevin Anderson, Maryland's then-athletic director, sent a memo to Loh dated May 19, 2017, that described changes in the management of athletes' injuries and illnesses that the athletic department sought to make. The plan called for the school to create an independent medical care model.
The memo asked for the university's athletic trainers to report to the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and be separated from the influence of the school's athletic department.