Maryland cuts $301K from football budget - Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun

For years, the University of Maryland has chartered flights to carry the football team to games at Duke and the other schools in North Carolina. But not this season. In one of many telling symptoms of the rough economy on college athletics, the Terps will travel by bus to and from Duke - a 270-mile trip - for the Oct. 24 game. The moves reflect an economic recession that has curbed fans' spending on college sports. Season ticket sales for Maryland football games have fallen about 8 percent compared with this time a year ago, according to figures recently supplied by the athletic department.