Sorry…I just don’t. It’s not that I don’t find it important…it’s just that I find it boring. Or sorry, let me try and put it another way. I find it uninteresting. Tedious.

Wake me when it’s time to name the permanent successor. Or when “Terrapins Rising” finally starts (July 14!). Either way. Either way’s cool.

In the meantime, regarding this AD stuff, what am I supposed to do? Research? What am I supposed to be, like, some kind of knower of things? Whatever. Don’t box me in.

If you want me to pay attention to this story, perhaps we should call interim AD Randy Eaton by his professional wrestling handle, Randy “The Ram” Eaton. He gives budget crunches the big elbow smash, and so on. He’s just an old, broken-down piece of meat. But maybe — just maybe — he could get one last shot at happiness. At redemption.

If, unlike me, you continue to be interested in this process, The Diamondback has a good breakdown of the potential replacements. Now have yourself a happy 4th.

So Randy Eaton, the Maryland athletic department’s senior associate athletics director and chief financial officer, has been named the interim athletic director. Here’s the part where I pretend like I know all about him….ohh, yeeaaaahh, Randy Eaton! Sure, Randy Eaton, of course, yes. Good man, good man. A steady hand on the old wheel Mr. Eaton will surely be. Plus his background in gobbledygook will really serve the department well when it comes to executing their woozah-wuzzle.

But seriously, his title and his two decades of experience seem to make him a fine choice to shepherd the department through this, the offseason of our discontent (or content, rather, if you didn’t like Debbie). A tip of the cap and best wishes to Mr. Eaton.

Meanwhile, the search committee for Debbie Yow’s permanent replacement has been announced. Notables include Gary Williams, Len Elmore, men’s soccer coach Sasho Cirovski, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, field hockey coach Missy Meharg, and Criminology and Criminal Justice Professor Charles Wellford. Would have been nice to see someone on there directly affiliated with the football team, but still, that’s a murderer’s row right thur, boy. You pitch around Missy Meharg, and there’s Charles Wellford staring you in the face. What can you do with that? Nothing. I think theyr’e gonna hit it out of the park. By the way, their timeframe for doing so, according to the Post, is three to four months.

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In the meantime, an interim AD to take over for the departed Debbie Yow should be named this week, with the position expected to be filled permanently by the end of September at the latest.

What caught me most by surprise in the report, however, was that lady Terps’ basketball coach Brenda Frese will definitely be on the search committee; it’s in her contract. The report didn’t mention Gary Williams or anyone else as a potential member — for contractual reasons or otherwise — of the committee. Huh.

In today’s Post, columnist Mike Wise has his Roy Firestone moment. And it’s a big one, too. He got Debbie Yow to cry.

In a nutshell, the column celebrates Yow’s many accomplishments at Maryland. Twenty national titles in six sports during her tenure. Great coaching hires including Ralph Friedgen and Sasho Cirovski. Getting Comcast Center and the Byrd Stadium expansion built. Longer time in the position than five predecessors. And oh yeah, she was the first female AD in the ACC. He hints, in fact, that the “Machiavellian survival tactics” she “resorted” to wouldn’t have been such a big thing if she had a cockandballs. He calls her “a pioneer, a woman playing a man’s game.” Well…true enough.

The article is fair, and he opines that her departure was probably inevitable, given that she essentially organized shadow campaigns to buy out Gary Williams and Ralph Friedgen during their times of struggle. Obviously, those campaigns were not successful. To further my Usual Suspects motif from yesterday — “How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?” Well, she missed. Bye, Debbie.

Still, the article paints her in sharp contrast to full-on eviscerations like John Feinstein’s. But maybe that illustrates a larger theme here.

Debbie Yow’s departure came as a pretty big surprise. Of course, there are always a few blog commenters and discussion board know-it-alls who have to roll their eyes and claim this was in the works for some time. (Oh, really, blog commenter? Debbie’s inner circle must have sworn you to secrecy then…only reason to explain why you didn’t mention anything BEFORE the fact.) Yeah, her bad relationship with Gary Williams was no secret, but still, her depature evidently was.

And that’s the thing. Debbie Yow’s entire tenure at Maryland seemed to happen behind the proverbial curtain. Fans and media — the eyes, ears, and voice of the fan — were necessary evils, not something to be embraced but to be leveraged, or dealt with. When you insist on operating in the dark, you relinquish to others the job of shaping your legacy. That’s what is happening to her, for good and bad, right now.

This move was surely hastened by the new, yet-to-be-named university president coming in late summer. Given that timeline, a new permanent AD selection could be many months away. Speculation on Yow’s replacement is already afoot, but right now it’s just names on a wall. Whenever the search committee gets serious, here’s hoping they pick someone who is a fan of the Terps, and operates with those fans in mind, in the full light of day. After all, sunshine is the best disinfectant. And there’s a serious funk right now coming out of the athletic department.

Whoa. Wow. Someone did NOT like Debbie Yow. I’ll give you a hint: his name rhymes with Schmon Schmeinstein. And if Schmon’s side of the story is fully accurate, he’s not the only one.

On his blog yesterday, Feinstein tore into Yow like she was a camper standing in front of his cubs. The headline said Yow “won’t be missed by many at Maryland,” and the article goes on to note that she had a pretty difficult personality, as “people came and went in the athletic department the way pitching coaches came and went when George Steinbrenner was still running the Yankees.” He goes into some pretty interesting details about her behavior behind the scences, before concluding that her “honeymoon won’t last terribly long” at N.C. State.

Lots of caustic (and juicy) allegations from Mr. Feinstein here, and it’s definitely worth a read.

Bottom line: the reasons Debbie Yow left don’t seem especially hard to figure out. She’s going home to take her dream job. She was on bad terms with the basketball AND football coaches. End of story. But according to Feinstein, there probably weren’t a lot of people trying to talk her out of the decision.

Here it is, straight from the wolfpack’s mouth.

And just like that — poof — she’s gone.

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!

The Terps athletic department is cutting $301,000 out of the football budget, according to the Baltimore Sun. That’s about a 3 percent reduction out of a $9.7 million overall budget.

So what are the ramifications. Well, the team now has to take the bus for some of its games, and the PR folks are sending out media guides on CDs instead of printing them. WHAT? Unacceptable. Oh wait…they won’t give a lowly blogger like me the time of day anyway. At least, I imagine they would not, if they knew I existed.

Lots of other sports are also affected. Men’s basketball, which has a $4.4 million budget, was trimmed $137,786, or about 3.1 percent. Women’s basketball saw its budget – about $2.6 million – cut $61,583, or about 2.4 percent. The “Olympic sports” of swimming and diving, track and field, gymnastics, tennis and other sports, are being cut by 9 percent (tennis is an Olympic sport?). Lots of Ramen noodles in their future, I’m afraid.

The good news is that it seems like no sports will be eliminated barring some catastrophe. AD Debbie Yow said “I’m pretty steadfast on the 27 [sports]. We’re just going to get through this period.”

So just a little general belt-tightening. It’s understandable. It could be worse. Besides, riding the bus builds character.