Wallace Loh has been president of the University of Maryland since 2010 and was at the helm when the Terrapins, a charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, left for the Big Ten after the 2013-14 intercollegiate sports season.
He was recorded last Thursday at a university senate meeting saying that he “would think” that an NCAA investigation would lead to the “death penalty” against UNC-Chapel Hill. The comments have brought heat from UNC officials, who said he shouldn’t have weighed in on an issue with “no direct knowledge” of the case.
An audio file of a portion of the meeting, which was open to the public, was sent on Monday to The News & Observer.