1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: This podcast is based in large part of the book 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: Born Ready, The Mixed Legacy of Lembois. 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 2: Some quotes are narrated by Davon Grady. 4 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: A podcast producer and the author of the book, from 5 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: interviews done for the book. Recordings for these comments were 6 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: not available. 7 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 3: Yea. 8 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 4: And our initial focus, of course, was to enhance attendance 9 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 4: and revenues for football and then of course in basketball, 10 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 4: we also created Maryland Basketball Radio. 11 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 5: It was a job and a family kind of atmosphere 12 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 5: working at the university. 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 6: What he really should do is put Leonard out in 14 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,199 Speaker 6: front of his car and drive Leonard from one end 15 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:51,599 Speaker 6: of the road to the other. Because Leonard Bias earned 16 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 6: Lefty that trophy that year. 17 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 7: So this morning, the question is why all of American 18 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 7: basketball star lam Bias, headed for the Boston Celtics, was 19 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 7: struck down by an apparent heart attack. 20 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 8: The Maryland Medical Examiner has now issued his report on 21 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 8: the death of the colleague basketball star lam Bias. It 22 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 8: confirms the worst suspicions. 23 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 9: It was like, uh a house of cards that were crumbling, 24 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 9: and there was no way to stop it. 25 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 10: And this is perhaps the status day in the history 26 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 10: of the University of Maryland. 27 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 11: This prosecution brought the University of Maryland to its leads in. 28 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 12: A grand jury. 29 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 13: You get asked the same question over and over again, 30 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 13: and Arthur Marshall is He's just getting louder and louder. 31 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 12: They knew this was a show. 32 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 13: You know, lives had been destroyed and and feelings had 33 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 13: been utilized. 34 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 14: Ultimately, the NCAA, you know, started to prohibit all jock norms, 35 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 14: so to speak, and you know that type of separation. 36 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 12: You had to, you know. 37 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 14: Integrate athletes into the student population. 38 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 15: And then I think we kind of each went into 39 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 15: our own sylum. We started to pull away from each 40 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 15: other a little bit because you didn't know, you know, 41 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 15: who the next who the next one was going to 42 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 15: be to go down. 43 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 16: They had already tagged us as drugheads and you know, 44 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 16: you know, guys who didn't have any type of character 45 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 16: mold or you know, or anything like that. 46 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 17: It was. 47 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 18: It was horrific. 48 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 19: He was probably the worst brand destroyer ever. 49 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 2: Left. 50 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 20: He didn't put the cocaine and Lenny's nose. He was 51 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 20: an adult and he did that on his own accord. 52 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 20: But left he caught the fall out. 53 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,799 Speaker 21: As calm as best as possible as but this was 54 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 21: the first time you've ever gone through a situation like this, 55 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 21: and you do not necessarily how to handle it. 56 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 22: Up. 57 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,679 Speaker 1: Next in Lembis and Mixed Legacy, Trauma and Transition in 58 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: College Park the immediate months of the University of Maryland 59 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: after the death of Lembis. 60 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 23: And that is going to be the last player of 61 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 23: the ball game. 62 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 7: Maryland, with forty. 63 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 24: Two points in the second half, has won a stunning 64 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 24: victory here in the Orange Bowl. 65 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 25: Nineteen seventies and much of the nineteen eighties were a 66 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 25: heady time for University of Maryland athletics. Fans still talk 67 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 25: about the football team led by Randy White that went 68 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 25: unbeaten in the ACC in nineteen seventy four in nineteen 69 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 25: seventy five. They didn't lose a game in nineteen seventy 70 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 25: six until a trip to the Cotton Bowl. Russ Potts 71 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 25: joined Maryland Athletics as its first marketing director in nineteen seventy. 72 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 25: He was part of an athletic department transformation. 73 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 4: And our initial focus, of course, was to enhance attendance 74 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 4: and revenues for football and then of course in basketball. 75 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 4: We also created the Maryland Basketball Radio Network and when 76 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 4: I got there, they had no network and one radio station. 77 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 4: When I left, we had fifty five and you know, 78 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 4: we even had games. We had all of our games 79 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 4: on the air in Charlottesville, Virginia. We had games on 80 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 4: the air in Trenton, New Jersey. We had all of 81 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 4: our games on WVAL radio, which is you know, it's 82 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 4: a fifty thousand y station. 83 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 25: Even non revenue sports that Maryland showed prominence starting in 84 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 25: nineteen seventy. The lacrosse team advanced to the final four 85 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 25: nine times in a row. They won national titles twice, 86 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 25: led by world record holding hurdler Ronaldo Nehemiah. The track 87 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 25: team was twice ranked in the top ten in the 88 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 25: country in the late seventies. Frank Castello was the track 89 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 25: team head coach, then also an All American high jumper 90 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 25: at Maryland in the nineteen sixties. 91 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 5: It was a job and a family kind of atmosphere 92 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 5: working at the university. 93 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 12: At that point. 94 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 5: I mean, I knew these people, and I knew him 95 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 5: for years the majority of them. 96 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 25: That feeling of family prevailed throughout Maryland athletics in the 97 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 25: nineteen sixties and seventies. Podcast producer Davon Grady has written 98 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,919 Speaker 25: three books about Maryland athletics history, including one that inspired 99 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 25: this podcast on Grady was part of that athletic family. 100 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 25: He was a member of the soccer team and was 101 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 25: an all conference middle distance runner and captain of the 102 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 25: track and field team in the late nineteen seventies. 103 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 24: The Maryland family connections were pretty deep in athletics. In 104 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 24: the nineteen sixties and seventies. Close to half of the 105 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 24: coaches were Maryland graduates, and they were Maryland athletes. In 106 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 24: the administration, five Maryland graduates formed the nucleus of the department, 107 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 24: the ticket manager, the marketing director, the sports information director, 108 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 24: the fundraiser, and the athletic director. 109 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 2: Most were turps athletes. 110 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 24: Even a head athletics trainer was a Maryland graduate, and 111 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 24: they wanted the athletes to act like a family, at 112 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:08,919 Speaker 24: least living together. 113 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 2: Most non revenue sports. 114 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 24: Athletes lived in the old athletic office as in Bird Stadium. 115 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 24: They lived in old offices and utility rooms in Mirge Coliseum, 116 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 24: the school's first basketball arena. I knew it well. I 117 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 24: lived in both of them. It was family, though with 118 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 24: little adult supervision. We have lots of fun. 119 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 25: Football was fun for Maryland fans in the early nineteen eighties. 120 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 25: That's when Bobby Ross led the Turps to three straight 121 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 25: ACC titles and the women's basketball team went to its 122 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 25: first Final Four in nineteen eighty two. With all that, 123 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 25: in the context of Maryland athletics, basketball was king. It 124 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 25: started when Lattigerzelle became head coach in nineteen sixty nine. 125 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 25: He led the Terps the ACC Tournament championship game five 126 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 25: times before finally winning it in nineteen eighty four. The 127 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 25: MVP of that tournament team was a rising sophomore star 128 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,039 Speaker 25: named one Bias. Molly Glassman covered Bias his entire college 129 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 25: career for the Baltimore Evening Sun There's and. 130 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 6: He carried them to the ACC championship. And of course 131 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 6: it was Lefty's huge accomplishment after all those years of 132 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 6: not winning the ACC. And you know Lefty bragging after 133 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 6: the game that he was going to take the trophy 134 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 6: and stick it on this on the hood of his 135 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 6: car and drive through North Carolina, drive across Tobacco Road 136 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 6: one end to the other, thinking at the time, well, 137 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 6: what he really should do is put Leonard out in 138 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 6: front of his car and drive Leonard from one end 139 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 6: of the of the Tobacco Road to the other because 140 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 6: Leonard Bias earned Lefty that trophy that year. 141 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 25: Two years later, Drazzell was no longer Maryland's head coach. 142 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 25: Ross was gone too, so was the school's athletic director, 143 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 25: Dictil and Won Bias was death. The next decade or 144 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 25: so was the darkest in the history of Maryland athletics. 145 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 25: Bob Nelligan was the women's gymnastics coach at Maryland from 146 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 25: nineteen seventy nine to two thousand and nine. 147 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 12: We were all. 148 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 9: Just numb from the fact that how could somebody who 149 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 9: was an absolute specimen incredible athlete with God given abilities? 150 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 12: And I think it. 151 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 23: Really took everybody, but like, how could this happen? So 152 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 23: the initial phase was this isn't happening. And then as 153 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 23: the reality started to set in, you had all the 154 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:55,439 Speaker 23: finger pointing where did this go wrong? Well, Lefty, should 155 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 23: you have known this? 156 00:08:58,040 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 9: You know those are your boys? 157 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 4: Uh it. 158 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 9: It was like a house of cards that were crumbling 159 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 9: and there was no way to stop it. 160 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: You're listening to Lembias the Mixed Legacy on the Eighth 161 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: Side Network. 162 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 25: The shocking death of len Bias sent emotional tremors throughout 163 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 25: the United States ESPN sportscaster Jay Billis played four years 164 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 25: against Bias while at Duke University. 165 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 26: I was at home at my visiting my parents right 166 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 26: after the draft h and my mom woke me up 167 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 26: and told me and I was actually sleeping in Los 168 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 26: Angeles and she woke me up and said, Len Bias died. 169 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,239 Speaker 26: I'm like what, Yeah, I'll never forget. 170 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 25: That reaction even registered around the globe. Dave Fields is 171 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 25: a Maryland graduate who grew up a few miles from 172 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 25: the Maryland campus. Like Bias, he attended Northwestern High School. 173 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 25: His father, Tom, helped transform Maryland's athletic department in the 174 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 25: nineteen seventies as its major fundraiser. Tom Fields was an 175 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 25: All American distance runner from Maryland in the early nineteen forties. 176 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 25: In June of nineteen eighty six, Dave Fields was serving 177 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 25: in the Marine Corps stationed in Okinawa, Japan. 178 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,839 Speaker 19: And we were on a pier ready to board a 179 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 19: ship to go to some training exercise, probably in the Philippines. 180 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 19: And my company first sergeant for Sargeant Williams, is probably 181 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 19: one hundred yards away, and he yelled, hey, lieutenant, hay, lieutenant, 182 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 19: check this out and he has a copy of the 183 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 19: Pacific Stars and Stripes, and I walked towards him. He 184 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 19: walks towards me, and he shows me, and I see 185 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 19: on the merry cover of Pacific Stars and Stripes lettered 186 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 19: Bias his dad. And I was just gut punched. I 187 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 19: just couldn't believe it. 188 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 7: The CBS News. 189 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 25: Nightwatch, the death of Lambias quickly became a global story 190 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 25: this morning. 191 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 7: The question is why All American basketball star Len Bias, 192 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 7: headed for the Boston Celtics, was struck down by an 193 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 7: apparent heart attack. 194 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 25: From the Washington, DC area. College Park is just a 195 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 25: few miles from DC's northern border, to Boston, to Baltimore 196 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 25: and beyond. The media captured the shock and surprise that 197 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 25: enveloped the country. 198 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 3: He was a college basketball champion, at the peak of 199 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 3: his help and on the verge of a coveted professional career. 200 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 27: This is ABC News Nightmind, substituting for Ted Kaplan, recording 201 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 27: from Washington, Charles Gibson. 202 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 24: When people heard the news last week, no one could 203 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 24: really believe it. 204 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 7: A twenty two year old athlete, one of the best 205 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 7: and one of the strongest among us, was dead. 206 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 27: Len Bias, a spectacular All American from the University of Maryland. 207 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 27: He had a basketball and the world in his hands. 208 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 27: Then in celibate Bias snorted a pure form of cocaine 209 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 27: and died, a terrible tragedy that has raised questions about 210 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 27: college and professional sports and about the widespread use of 211 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 27: drugs in American society. That's our theme today with our 212 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 27: guests John Slaughter, the Chancellor of the University of Maryland, 213 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 27: Ralph Sampson, a former All American from the University of Virginia, 214 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 27: now a star forward for the Houston Rockets. While in college, 215 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 27: he played against Bias. John Lawn, head of the Drug 216 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 27: Enforcement Administration, who has a national crisis on his hands. 217 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 27: All our guests today are meet the pressed. 218 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 8: The Maryland Medical Examiner has now issued his report on 219 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 8: the death of the college basketball Starland Bias. It confirms 220 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 8: the worst suspicions. He died of heart failure because he 221 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 8: used cocaine. 222 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:46,199 Speaker 12: Leonard Bias. 223 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 21: Died of cocaine intoxication. 224 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,079 Speaker 3: The medical Examiner said the cocaine and Bias' body was 225 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 3: virtually pure. It took only four or five minutes for 226 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 3: the young man to die. 227 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,439 Speaker 25: As the Celtics beat reporter for the Boston Herald, Steve 228 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 25: Bullpen had been at the NBA Draft in New York 229 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 25: two days before Bias died. He was back in Boston 230 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 25: when he heard the news of Bias's death. 231 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 18: I just remember being exhausted and getting woke up by 232 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 18: a phone call from one of my friends saying that, 233 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 18: you know, hey, the guy. 234 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 12: Has passed away. 235 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 18: The guy died. And I think everyone's reaction at that 236 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 18: point was you've got to be you know, some kind 237 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 18: of sick joke. And then a minute later or two, 238 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 18: my editor calls and said that he confirmed it and said, 239 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 18: get to logan. You're you're booked on a flight to 240 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 18: d C that leaves in you know, an hour or 241 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 18: something like that. It was crazy, but something didn't fit. 242 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 18: And I turned to our news guy and said, get 243 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 18: down to the dorm now, something something doesn't It just 244 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 18: isn't adding up here. And he went down there was 245 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 18: he was the first on the scene, seeing the police 246 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 18: going through the dumpster, and you know, so that's when 247 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 18: you know things We kind of knew things were gonna 248 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 18: you know, we're getting off the rails as far as 249 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 18: what we believed something that was, you know, the cause 250 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 18: of death. 251 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 12: We now had an idea. 252 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 25: Mollie Glassman covered the death of Bias for The Baltimore Sun. 253 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 25: She recalled suspicions about the cause of Bias's death changed 254 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 25: during a press conference by Maryland coach Lefty Droussel. 255 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 6: That's when the first thought of drugs comes to your mind. 256 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 6: They're not saying, you know, well, the doctors say you 257 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 6: know that. You know he was he had these issues, 258 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 6: not being specific about anything. You're right, he danced around 259 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 6: a lot of things. There was just an edge to everything, 260 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 6: you know. They weren't, especially the seniors. It was like, 261 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 6: what are they avoiding talking about? 262 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 28: That day? 263 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 6: I recall that evening especially we went to bias. 264 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 9: House and kind of staked it out, and it. 265 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 6: Was just incredibly guarded. 266 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 28: Thing. 267 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 6: It wasn't as if somebody Lenny had had passed from natural. 268 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 25: Causes, but it was in the community on and around 269 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 25: Maryland's campus where the reaction was most intense. The school 270 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 25: is located in Prince George's County. Bias grew up in 271 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 25: the same county, some ten miles from the campus. Did 272 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 25: you know when, yes, I did. 273 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 2: I'm really upset right now saw this. 274 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 25: I could talk to me and talk about it. 275 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 2: Everybody in the neighborhood know him. 276 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 28: Everybody now him. 277 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: You know, he got along with everybody. I just want 278 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: to know what happened. 279 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 25: Here's Jay Bias, Lee's younger brother. 280 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: He was the best brother that I think ever in 281 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: the whole where. I just hope that led to Sam 282 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: at heaven and everything I do from now on is 283 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: dedicated for my brother. 284 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 25: Keeta Covington was a defensive back on Maryland's football team 285 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 25: and a close friend of Bias. He spent time with 286 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 25: Bias hours before he died. Covington struggled to express himself 287 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 25: when he heard Bias had died physically. 288 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 12: Was just excited. 289 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 22: I mean, I mean, other than being excited, you know 290 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 22: what else could you expect. 291 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 25: Here's John Slaughter, the University of Maryland chancellor at the time. 292 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 10: This is perhaps the saddest day in the history of 293 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 10: the University of Maryland. The loss of Leonard Bias is 294 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 10: something that each and every member of this campus community 295 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 10: feels very deeply. 296 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 25: Here's Dick Dole, Maryland's athletic director. 297 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 12: Lenny Bias was a great kid. 298 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 26: I've been here ten years and I've never seen a 299 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 26: day as dark and sad as this one. 300 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 16: We loved Lenny Bias for what he did for Maryland, 301 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 16: but we loved him more because he was a good 302 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 16: person in our friend. 303 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 25: Maryland coach left to Giselle held a press conference shortly 304 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 25: after the death of Bias. 305 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 28: I really don't know if I'm up to this, but yeah, 306 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 28: I guess Leonard a woman. You know, he's a I've 307 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 28: known Leonard sent he was in about the sixth grade. 308 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 28: He's like a son to me. So I think you 309 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 28: can appreciate the difficulty the way I feel right now. 310 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 25: After the initial shock, the school and the community settled 311 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 25: into a period of prolonged and painful transition. Mike Losley, 312 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,439 Speaker 25: now Maryland's head football coach, was about to begin his 313 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 25: senior year of high school in Washington, d C. Jeff Baxter, 314 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,400 Speaker 25: a teammate of Bias at Maryland, was a neighbor of Loxley. 315 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 25: Loxley was attending football camp with his teammates at the 316 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 25: University of North Carolina when the news came of Bias's death, and. 317 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 22: I can remember waking up that morning and my high 318 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 22: school coach kind of bring us all together telling us 319 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 22: the news, and I can remember all of us being 320 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 22: pretty emotional to the point where they actually they canceled 321 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,919 Speaker 22: the camp for that day. Spent a lot of years 322 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 22: in the parking lots of cole Fieldhouse, getting tickets, scalping 323 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 22: tickets to get inside the game, and being able to 324 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,159 Speaker 22: watch and play. You know, one of my childhood friends 325 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 22: who lived in my neighborhood, you know, Jeff bactually lived 326 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,640 Speaker 22: right across the parking lot from me, and so always 327 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 22: followed Jeff. My love for Lynn kind of came from 328 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 22: just following Jeff. It was like our neighborhood hero. 329 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 25: When it was revealed that Bias had died from cocaine 330 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 25: intoxication made things even worse for Locksley and his friends. 331 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 25: They were not naive about the drug epidemic that was 332 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 25: impacting their DC neighborhood and other inner cities across the country. 333 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,400 Speaker 22: This was the time where there was a heightened awareness 334 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:49,120 Speaker 22: because of the crack epidemic and the war on drugs 335 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 22: that were taking part, and in the neighborhood that we 336 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 22: grew up in. Obviously there were a ton of guys 337 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 22: and people going to prison and that had these drug addictions. 338 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 22: But to me, it is the first time I ever 339 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,159 Speaker 22: thought or heard of an athlete dying from it, and 340 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 22: I just kept saying, there's no way, how could he 341 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 22: or why would he? He had the world at his 342 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 22: fingertips and so trying to come to grips with just 343 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 22: like scared to crap out of me. It just basically 344 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 22: see minute to me like, hey, drugs aren't anything to 345 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 22: play with and you know I wasn't using them. I 346 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 22: don't use them, but that for me pretty much signified like, hey, drugs. 347 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:34,719 Speaker 12: Are nothing to play with it they can take a 348 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 12: guy like Lynn. 349 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 25: Bias on campus. Maryland, faculty members claimed athletes were given 350 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 25: special privileges so they could remain eligible. Athletic director Dick 351 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:55,439 Speaker 25: Dole felt the relationship between the school's faculty and the 352 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 25: athletic department was in tatters due to Len's death. Podcast 353 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 25: producer David on Grady talked with Doll. 354 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 24: Dick Doll told me, we had worked so hard to 355 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 24: make something we were proud of. The relationship went south. 356 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 24: When you lose confidence of the faculty, things get difficult. 357 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 25: The death of Bias turned Doll's world upside down. He 358 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 25: was only thirty five and considered a rising star as 359 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 25: a college athletic director. Doll said he felt as if 360 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 25: he were one of the main characters in what he 361 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 25: called a Greek tragedy in which there were no winners. 362 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,919 Speaker 24: Dull told me I was in shell shock for about 363 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 24: six weeks. You go from being the fair haired boy 364 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 24: to people calling for you to leave. It was difficult 365 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 24: for me to handle. It was unlike anything I had 366 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 24: ever seen. I can remember walking out of my office 367 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 24: to go to the bathroom and someone would be following 368 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 24: me down the hallway. 369 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 2: It was like that every day. 370 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 25: Soon after Bias's death, Dull called a staff meeting. He 371 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 25: wanted to gather his forces for what promised to be 372 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 25: an unwanted battle from normalcy. Sue Tyler was an assistant 373 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 25: athletic director and a coach at the time. 374 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 15: Well, I think we had one meeting to discuss it 375 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 15: and to say, you know, this is really a tough 376 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 15: situation and we're going to work our way through. 377 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 7: It and. 378 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 12: Be careful with. 379 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 15: The media because the media was everywhere, and just continue 380 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 15: on that. 381 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 26: I'd like to take you out to the University of 382 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 26: Maryland College Park to talk with Dick Dahal, who was 383 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 26: the athletic director at the University of Maryland. 384 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: Well We've been in the state of shock from the 385 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: time we first heard about. 386 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 26: It this morning. 387 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 25: The media had plenty to report about that summer. 388 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 8: Good evening, sports fans and others in the Washington area 389 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 8: and all around. 390 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,919 Speaker 3: The country tonight, our morning, the loss of Lend Bias. 391 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 24: Pat Collins has spent the day around the University of Maryland. 392 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 28: He's putting together the facts as we know him. 393 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 15: We're going to join him now live from College Park. 394 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 7: Pat Susan Prince George's County fully are looking into the 395 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 7: possibility that cocaine may be involved in the death of 396 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 7: Len Bias. 397 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 8: A woman in the Leland records department testified that a 398 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 8: fictitious name was attached to Bias' lab reports to keep 399 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 8: people from prying there was so much. 400 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:17,640 Speaker 20: Media interest in his records, but that in. 401 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 15: Order to get as sure that this didn't leak out, 402 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 15: they changed the name. 403 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 25: In late June, a medical examiner's report ruled Bias had 404 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 25: died from consuming too much cocaine. 405 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,199 Speaker 8: Maryland Street Medical Examiner Today said the cocaine interrupted the 406 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 8: normal electrical control of. 407 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 15: Bias's heartbeat, resulting in the sudden onset of seizures and 408 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 15: cardiac arrest. 409 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 3: Mike Buchanan reports, the medical examiner says the cocaine ingested 410 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 3: by Lenn Bias apparently snorted, was apparently uncut, in other words, 411 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 3: almost pure. 412 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 8: There wasn't a purity of the material that he used. 413 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 12: That was a key factor. Was a key factor was. 414 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 27: The fact that he used that had whatever level of 415 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,919 Speaker 27: purity and it got to that particular concentration in his 416 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 27: blood pressure. 417 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 25: Also came from within the university. In early July, the 418 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 25: university set up two task forces want to review academic programs, policies, 419 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 25: and support systems within athletics. Sue Tyler was the only 420 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 25: athletic department member on that task force. One result was 421 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,439 Speaker 25: making the academic support unit bigger. 422 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 15: It was a very thorough process and a very arduous process. 423 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:34,959 Speaker 15: The positive results eventually were that they put more money 424 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 15: and interest into developing support for the student athletes, academic support, 425 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 15: training room support. It wasn't just about the academic aspect 426 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 15: and the attendance and classes, but it was also just 427 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 15: their total athletic experience. 428 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 25: Len Elmore, a Maryland basketball All American in the mid 429 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 25: nightineteen seventies, was a member of that task force that 430 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 25: looked into academic performance and alleged drug use of athletes 431 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 25: in College Park. 432 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 14: But many of the things that we found out, one 433 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 14: the separation of student athletes basketball, football, and others, you know, 434 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 14: led to certain types of behaviors, and you know, the 435 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:25,919 Speaker 14: inability to detect certain types of behaviors and also to 436 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 14: monitor those who were in charge, who were charged. 437 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 12: With monitoring the athletes. 438 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 14: There are some faults in that whole system, and that 439 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 14: became a nationwide thing. Ultimately, the NCAA you know, started 440 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 14: to prohibit all jock dorms, so to speak, and you know, 441 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 14: that type of separation. You had to you know, integrate 442 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 14: athletes into the student population. 443 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 25: Starting in nineteen ninety six, the NCAA restricted to forty 444 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 25: nine percent of the number of athletes allowed to live 445 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 25: in one dorm, eliminating what many referred to as jockdorm. 446 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 25: If the stress of dealing with the death of a 447 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 25: cherished athlete wasn't enough, the school also had to deal 448 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 25: with legal challenges, the most significant the Prince George's County's 449 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 25: Attorney's Office. On July eighth, started handing out subpoenas to 450 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 25: friends and teammates of bias and to a number of 451 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 25: Maryland athletic officials. Someone had to be responsible for the 452 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 25: death of Bias. Jeffrey Harding was an assistant States Attorney 453 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 25: for the county. 454 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 11: So here's a guy who is now dead, this tragedy, 455 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 11: and we want to hold somebody responsible for that. This 456 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:40,719 Speaker 11: prosecution brought the University of Maryland to its nees, so 457 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 11: people were pointing their finger at the prosecutor and saying, 458 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 11: you know, why are you taking down our most famous institution, 459 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 11: Why are you ruining this. 460 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 25: Among those called to testify the Terps basketball coach Lefti Trussell. 461 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 25: He admitted in a media report that he instructed assistance 462 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 25: and coach Oliver Parnell to clean up the suite where 463 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,679 Speaker 25: Bias died. That would be considered tampering with evidence. Parnell 464 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 25: did not clean up the room, and the grand jury 465 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 25: chose not to indict Grisel. Also called to testify Bob Wagner, 466 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 25: the high school coach of Bias. 467 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,160 Speaker 12: And this old black guy was sitting in the back 468 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:20,719 Speaker 12: and he was kind of like sleeping. They'd been going 469 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 12: through days of this and I was finding the last one. 470 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:24,719 Speaker 12: You know, he's not really paying attention. 471 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 29: So two beautiful people, the one lady says, can you 472 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 29: just kind of tell us what you would do if 473 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 29: you walked in to the dorm, which. 474 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 13: I'd never go into their rooms, and they're drinking and 475 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 13: they're underage. 476 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 12: I said, well, if they're my players, then I got 477 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 12: to take the stuff. I got to be bored because 478 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 12: I'm a team about you know, I. 479 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,199 Speaker 13: Give them the same routine that you would if you're 480 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 13: responsible for doing as a teacher. Then I said, you know, 481 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,640 Speaker 13: if they're in college, I said, you know, they're college kids. 482 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 13: If they're underage, I might have to say something to 483 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 13: the left or you know, whatever the program they're involved with. 484 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 12: In a grand jury, you get asked the same question. 485 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 13: Over and over again, and Arthur Marshall is just getting 486 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 13: louder and louder. 487 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 12: And this is a teacher thing too. 488 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 13: I just lowered my voice and I said, you know, 489 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 13: mister Marshall, you're asking me the same thing over and 490 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 13: over again, and I'm. 491 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 12: Going to tell you the same You can keep asking me. 492 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,679 Speaker 13: You're trying to intimidate me something about did tell them 493 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,239 Speaker 13: to clean up the room because I knew there were 494 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 13: drugs in the room, and I knew all. 495 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 12: About them using drugs. And all this bs. 496 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 13: So the black gentleman says, you just kind of read 497 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 13: you kind of says, he said, mister Washington, what is 498 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 13: this man doing here? 499 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,879 Speaker 12: Oh my god, bless you. I'm out of here. Because 500 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 12: it was like they were tired. They knew this was 501 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 12: a show. But then from there on that was over. 502 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 13: But you know, lives had been destroyed and the feelings 503 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 13: had been rutalized. 504 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 25: John Slaughter and Dick Dole were also called to testify 505 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 25: to the grand jury. Police officers let Dol out the 506 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 25: back door of the courtroom to help avoid the throng 507 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 25: of ravenous media covering the story. Only three were charged 508 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 25: with crimes, David greg and Terry Long, teammates of Bias, 509 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 25: and Brian Tribble, a close friend of Bias. All three 510 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,640 Speaker 25: were with Bias when he had the seizure that led 511 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,199 Speaker 25: to his death. Despite the scrutiny from both the media 512 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 25: and the university, the athletic staff soldiered on Tyler Fields. 513 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 25: They held up pretty well for a time. 514 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 15: I think it brought us all together to support each 515 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 15: other and to try to boost each other's morale up. 516 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 15: I think part of the trigger when Jendie's became kind 517 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 15: of the fall guy that we thought anyway, because we 518 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 15: were astonished. He was just the hardest working, most loyal 519 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 15: guy around, and the student athletes loved him. 520 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 25: Jim Deach was part of that old Maryland institution. He 521 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 25: played lacrosse for the Turps in the nineteen sixties, coached 522 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 25: the soccer and lacrosse teams in the nineteen seventies and 523 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 25: part of the eighties. At the time of Bias's death, 524 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 25: he led the academic support staff of about half a 525 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 25: dozen advisors. A few months after Bias died, Steach to 526 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 25: become the ticket manager. Teach agreed, thinking it was best 527 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 25: for the university. Tyler called the move astonishing. 528 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 15: He was working eighteen hours a day, seven days a week. 529 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 15: He was coaching, he was setting up the support unit, 530 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 15: and he started making sure kids were going to classes 531 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 15: and trying to help students with scheduling problems, and he 532 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 15: became known as the fixer and the whole department for 533 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 15: all the student athletes. But when he left, we just said, well, 534 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 15: if this can happen to a guy like Jim, what's 535 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 15: going to happen to us? And then I think we 536 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 15: kind of each went into our own silo. We started 537 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 15: to pull away from each other a little bit because 538 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 15: you didn't know, you know who the next who the 539 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 15: next one was going to be to go down. We 540 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 15: were just shocked and disappointed and fearful for our own 541 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 15: jobs and our own welfare and our own teams. 542 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:02,479 Speaker 25: Several weeks after biased, Dill publicly stated that coach Grizel 543 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 25: should keep his job even though he was called to 544 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 25: testify on the grand jury. Those comments led to his 545 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 25: own departure. He and Slaughter agreed Dill's comments were not 546 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 25: helpful and that he should step away. He resigned on 547 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 25: October seventh. On the way to the press conference announcing 548 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 25: his resignation, Dill reportedly told Slaughter, quote, I might recite 549 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 25: Martin Luther King's words free at Last. Dill was in 550 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 25: the second year of a four year contract he had 551 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 25: been thinking about leaving at the end of its term. 552 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 25: At the press conference, according to reports, he said, there 553 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 25: was more to life than quote, slaving away trying to 554 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 25: manage an intercollegiate athletic program. It was about a year 555 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 25: and a half ago that I realized I no longer 556 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 25: had a personal or private life. But I didn't do anything. 557 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 25: I enjoyed like fishing, playing golf, or photography end quote. Understandably, 558 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 25: Marilyn Men's basketball players were the most affected of any 559 00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 25: students after Bias died. Reports after Bias died claimed that 560 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 25: several basketball players, including by Us, were academically ineligible. Junior 561 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 25: Keith Gatlin failed to register for fall classes and was 562 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 25: forced to miss the next season. The players became the 563 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 25: object of skepticism and scorn. Some stayed mostly in the 564 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 25: room for weeks to avoid criticism. Wherever they went, the 565 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 25: media seemed to follow. Here's John Johnson, a freshman on 566 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 25: the nineteen eighty sixteen I. 567 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 30: Should now, I said now more because I was so 568 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 30: upset because of all the negative reports that were coming 569 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 30: out about him and about us as players and everything. 570 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 30: And I remember we didn't even want to talk to 571 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 30: the grief counselors because it was just so bad. 572 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 2: But they had already tagged us as drugheads and. 573 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 16: You know, you know, guys who didn't have any type 574 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 16: of character molds or you know, anything like that. 575 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 25: Johnson recalled the discomfort he felt on his first day 576 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 25: back in class during summer school. 577 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 31: Walking left the hall the door in the front of 578 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 31: the back and walk in the front and it goes 579 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:21,280 Speaker 31: from everybody talking to everything just gets quiet, and I 580 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 31: go in the back and sit down and all of 581 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 31: a sudden, you know the time I n they classroom 582 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 31: or whatever, it's just here, crickets. 583 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: You're listening to Lembois the Mixed Legacy on the Eighth 584 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 1: Side Network. 585 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 25: Johnson never returned to the class. Sue Tyler recalls the 586 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 25: disdain many on campus showed the athletes. 587 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,040 Speaker 15: Rest of the university seemed to hate us, and they 588 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 15: thought that we had I was unqualified and poor student athletes, 589 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 15: and we had really great kids, and they thought it 590 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 15: was an endemic problem and it was not. Most of 591 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 15: our student athletes were exceptional in the classroom and on 592 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:11,239 Speaker 15: the field, so I. But the whole university really was 593 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 15: tough on student athletes and the coaches. 594 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 25: Your's football player Asi Zudin ab der Rouf or Isiz 595 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,000 Speaker 25: as everyone called him. 596 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 21: There was a lot of pressure. You felt like the 597 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 21: weight of the campus was on you, even though you 598 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 21: didn't necessarily do anything wrong. 599 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 25: Throughout the bias fallout, coach Lefty Drizzl maintained that he 600 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 25: had done nothing wrong. He claimed his athletes were good students. 601 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 25: He claimed he was not aware of drug use on 602 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 25: the team. He spoke publicly again and again after Bias died, 603 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 25: defending his in the team's honor. That ultimately led to 604 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 25: the end of his Maryland career. Slaughter wanted Drizzl out 605 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 25: as coach because he felt Drizzel did not provide the 606 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 25: leadership needed by the team. 607 00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 24: At the time, John Slaughter told me inclusion was we 608 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 24: were not going to turn that around unless a change 609 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,960 Speaker 24: was made. I thought we needed to change coaches for 610 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,799 Speaker 24: a variety of reasons. I could come up with a 611 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,400 Speaker 24: whole lot of reasons, but I consider that a closed chapter. 612 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 24: I don't want to open it anymore. I like left 613 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,359 Speaker 24: you a great deal. I'm not sure it's reciprocated at 614 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 24: the moment. When asked about his feelings towards Slaughter, Drizelle 615 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,720 Speaker 24: told me no comment. I have a lot of feelings 616 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,160 Speaker 24: about Slaughter, but I'd rather not say. 617 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,240 Speaker 25: Within a matter of months, a trio who helped build 618 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 25: Maryland's familial institution, Ditch dol and Drizzel were gone. Mollie 619 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 25: Glassman feels some of the moves by Chancellor John Slaughter 620 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,360 Speaker 25: were motivated by self preservation. 621 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 6: He was a chancellor who was very concerned about the 622 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 6: reputation of himself and the school, and the reputation was 623 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 6: in tatters academically when the when the revelations came out 624 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 6: that these kids weren't going to class. 625 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 25: Tom McMillan was an All American at Maryland and was 626 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 25: coached by Drizzel in the early nineteen seventies. He has 627 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,360 Speaker 25: been heavily involved with the university ever since, serving for 628 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,280 Speaker 25: a term on the Board of Regents. He feels Slaughter 629 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,799 Speaker 25: made Lefty the fall guy for Bias' death. 630 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 18: It was it was horrific. 631 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:27,360 Speaker 12: It was probably the worst brand destroyer ever. 632 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 25: Others also believed Drizzell was made a scapegoat for the 633 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,080 Speaker 25: death of Bias. Here's Derek Lewis, a Maryland sophomore when 634 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,200 Speaker 25: Bias died and they see him. 635 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,360 Speaker 32: Walk out of Kolchios that day after announcing that he 636 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,719 Speaker 32: was even no retire stepping down. That was that was 637 00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:47,680 Speaker 32: that was pissed that that wouldn't anything pissed you off? 638 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,360 Speaker 32: You know you're mad about about many and what happened 639 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 32: right that it was nothing's supposed to do? What was 640 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,439 Speaker 32: it was nothing supposed to be there and did doing 641 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 32: at two in the morning, or you're supposed to be 642 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 32: watching me. See what I was doing across the hall 643 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:03,719 Speaker 32: was to be a test room. 644 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 28: I mean, you can't. 645 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 21: You can't be avery with me. 646 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,640 Speaker 12: So I had a big I had a big problem 647 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:07,840 Speaker 12: with that. 648 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 25: Here's JJ Bush, an athletic trainer with Drizzel in the 649 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:12,280 Speaker 25: nineteen seventies. 650 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,480 Speaker 20: Left he didn't put the cocaine in Lenny's nose. He 651 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 20: didn't buy the cocaine for Lenny or any of that stuff. Lenny, 652 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:23,440 Speaker 20: you know, was over the age of consent. He was 653 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 20: an adult, and he did that on his own accord. 654 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,680 Speaker 20: But Lefty caught the fallout. 655 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 25: As Lefty Drizselle stepped down as basketball coach. Maryland football 656 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,880 Speaker 25: coach Bobby Ross was trying to make the best of 657 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,279 Speaker 25: what was becoming a trying season. The Terrapins had won 658 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 25: three consecutive acc titles. They started the season with three wins, 659 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,239 Speaker 25: but injuries and distractions began to create an environment too 660 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,840 Speaker 25: challenging to overcome. For one thing, Ross had to endure 661 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,959 Speaker 25: the departures of his close friends Dolandrizzel. Then it didn't 662 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,239 Speaker 25: help that the football team played its first game some 663 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:03,840 Speaker 25: ten weeks after the tragedy. School administrators told Ross that 664 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 25: his players had to talk to the media, but they 665 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,239 Speaker 25: were bombarded with questions that had nothing to do with 666 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,920 Speaker 25: the next game or opponent, and everything to do with Bias. 667 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 25: Here's podcast producer dave On Grady. 668 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,680 Speaker 24: Bobby Ross told me guys would constantly come up to 669 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,120 Speaker 24: me and asked what they should say. 670 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,600 Speaker 2: I told them to tell the truth. It was a 671 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 2: big distraction. 672 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,240 Speaker 25: It seemed that for a time Ross preferred the players 673 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,480 Speaker 25: not talk to the media at all. Podcast producer Don 674 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,080 Speaker 25: Marcus was a reporter for the Baltimore Sun at the time. 675 00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,800 Speaker 25: He recalls an incident with a football player that reflected 676 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:41,919 Speaker 25: the tensions on the team. 677 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,719 Speaker 17: Bobby Ross had been in England visiting his son when 678 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,319 Speaker 17: Bias had died. Summer workouts for the football team were 679 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,600 Speaker 17: about to begin, and Ross flew back to the US 680 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 17: to speak with his team. I remember staking out the 681 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,719 Speaker 17: team house really early one morning and watching players and 682 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,839 Speaker 17: coaches go in. I was the only reporter there. When 683 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,520 Speaker 17: they came out, I moved a bit away from the 684 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,959 Speaker 17: building so that Ross wouldn't see me. Chuck for sat 685 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,920 Speaker 17: one of the team's star linebackers walked by me. I 686 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,880 Speaker 17: knew Chuck, and he stopped when he saw me. I remember. 687 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,560 Speaker 17: I asked him what Ross had told the team. He said, 688 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 17: we need to get ready for the season, not worry 689 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 17: much about what's going on with Bias. For said, who 690 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,360 Speaker 17: was friends with Bias, wasn't too happy with the message. 691 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:30,279 Speaker 17: That's bullshit, he said. 692 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,719 Speaker 25: Layers became isolated. Ziz was a senior wide receiver on 693 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:35,200 Speaker 25: the team. 694 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,600 Speaker 21: I could definitely say the student union. We didn't necessarily hang. 695 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,360 Speaker 12: Out much like we had in the past. You know, 696 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:43,160 Speaker 12: you just kind of life. 697 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,719 Speaker 21: You kept him moving, as they say, and there were 698 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,480 Speaker 21: times where you had to tell one of your teammates, hey, 699 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,840 Speaker 21: you know that person says something to you, show restraint 700 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,320 Speaker 21: and don't say anything back. So those things were happening. 701 00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,440 Speaker 21: We try to keep everything as calm as best as 702 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,960 Speaker 21: possible is but this was the first time you ever 703 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,560 Speaker 21: gone through a situation like this, and you know not 704 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,040 Speaker 21: necessarily how to handle it. 705 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:12,359 Speaker 25: Three days after Giselle announced his resignation, Maryland's football team 706 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,560 Speaker 25: lost by two points at North Carolina. The Terps then 707 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,120 Speaker 25: only won one of their last four games to finish 708 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,759 Speaker 25: five to five and one. It was the worst of 709 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,400 Speaker 25: Ross's five seasons at Maryland. Toward the end of the season, 710 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,279 Speaker 25: Ross met with acting athletic director Charles Sturtz. He won 711 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:32,279 Speaker 25: clarification on the university's admissions policy and how it might 712 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,759 Speaker 25: affect the future of Maryland athletics. The policy was being 713 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,400 Speaker 25: scrutinized following Bias' death. He was told it could be 714 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,000 Speaker 25: as long as three or four years before the issue 715 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:42,960 Speaker 25: would be all settled. 716 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,759 Speaker 24: Ross told me, that's when I started to think about it, 717 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,759 Speaker 24: not having a defined direction and all the other distractions. 718 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,000 Speaker 24: I felt it was time to move on. 719 00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,359 Speaker 25: Maryland won its last game that season to Virginia by 720 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,239 Speaker 25: thirty two points, but the mood on the ride back 721 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,360 Speaker 25: from Charlotte's for Ross, his wife, and four of his 722 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,960 Speaker 25: five children was far from either serene or celebratory. It 723 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,960 Speaker 25: was during that two and a half hour ride on 724 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,919 Speaker 25: November twenty eighth, that the Ross family had a long 725 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,879 Speaker 25: talk about Dad's future. They decided he would step down 726 00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:20,680 Speaker 25: as Maryland's head coach. Four days later, on December first, 727 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,520 Speaker 25: Ross resigned as Maryland's head coach. In a little over 728 00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,919 Speaker 25: five months, Maryland had lost its athletic director, its basketball coach, 729 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,839 Speaker 25: and its football coach. Three days later. Maryland would start 730 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,279 Speaker 25: its basketball season a few weeks later than normal. They 731 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,040 Speaker 25: would have a new head coach, Bob Wade. They would 732 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,839 Speaker 25: finish the season nine and seventeen, Maryland's worst season since 733 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,320 Speaker 25: nineteen sixty nine, that was the year before Lefty Griselle 734 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,279 Speaker 25: took over as coach. It was a sign of the 735 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:53,720 Speaker 25: tumultuous years to come in athletics at Maryland, all created 736 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,440 Speaker 25: by the death of Len Bias. 737 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:06,920 Speaker 12: M I'm next to Lembias tragedy to try. 738 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:14,320 Speaker 26: Maryland suffered an unspeakable trauma with bias his death, and 739 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,400 Speaker 26: the reaction was swift and far reaching, and it was 740 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:22,040 Speaker 26: a trauma that lasted for a long long time. 741 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,759 Speaker 12: It was just a choice, you know. 742 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:33,120 Speaker 28: It's I enjoyed playing my teammates, but as that game 743 00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,120 Speaker 28: being fun, it wouldn't. 744 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,920 Speaker 12: For me personally. Whatever it wasn't it wasn't It wasn't fun. 745 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,320 Speaker 12: It was devastating, it really was. 746 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:45,600 Speaker 1: That's the only word I could use. 747 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:47,439 Speaker 33: You were at the bottom of the pile and trying 748 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,000 Speaker 33: to walk up and see how you you You could 749 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,280 Speaker 33: not just pass six other really good teams. 750 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:57,279 Speaker 12: But to be competitive with Duke in North Carolina, I. 751 00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,879 Speaker 34: Wanted to be a good player at home. I wanted 752 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,480 Speaker 34: family and friends to see me close and personally engineers. 753 00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:07,200 Speaker 34: I wanted to show that I can't have the same 754 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:08,240 Speaker 34: impact as Len. 755 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:12,600 Speaker 33: Bias us players from the top of the Georgia John Root, 756 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,480 Speaker 33: the kids have done us far, Like when's their first 757 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,279 Speaker 33: ever national Championship. 758 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,719 Speaker 1: This podcast series is based on the book Born Ready, 759 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,960 Speaker 1: A Mixed Legacy of Lemby, published by Go Grady Media. 760 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,880 Speaker 1: The series is produced by Go Grady Media in partnership 761 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,680 Speaker 1: with Octagon Entertainment. This segment was produced by Daveon Grady 762 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,560 Speaker 1: and Don Martin. It was written by Daveon Grady and 763 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:39,000 Speaker 1: edited by Don Marcus. The narrator was Kevin McNulty, with 764 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,560 Speaker 1: additional narration by Jamal Williams. Technical production was provided by 765 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:47,239 Speaker 1: Octagon Entertainment. Production assistance was produced by Kevin McNulty, Tino Quagliata, 766 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:53,160 Speaker 1: swaarn Ross, Georgia Brown, Casey Fair, Jamal Williams, Kelsey Mannix 767 00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:57,879 Speaker 1: and Enzo al Varene. 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