Maryland extends AD Evans through ’28-29

• Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Elder WriterAug 12, 2024, 02:00 PM ET

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Damon Evans has gotten a two-year contract extension through the 2028-29 athletic year.The new offer for Evans, who has actually led Maryland’s athletics department because June 2018, runs through June 2029. In 2022, he signed an agreement extension through June 2027, although Maryland didn’t publicly reveal that deal.Evans ‘new agreement increases his base pay to$1 million yearly, up from$725,000. He also will receive$280,000 in annual supplemental income, increased from$120,000.”In a transformative time in the college landscape, Damon has actually proved to be an extremely reliable leader in assisting our athletic department to championship heights, both on and off the playing fields,”university president Darryll Pines stated in a declaration.” He has actually placed our Terrapins for long-term success on the nationwide phase and I could not be more delighted to have him leading the department for several years to come.”Evans played football at Georgia and served as athletic director at his alma mater

from 2004 to 2010. He concerned Maryland in 2014 as senior associate athletic director and took over as interim athletic director in October 2017, after Kevin Anderson went on sabbatical.During Evans ‘period as AD, Maryland has 3 national championships and 49 Big 10 champions or competition titles

— the 3rd most of any league member in the span. Evans employed football coach Mike Locksley in 2018 and males’s basketball coach Kevin Willard in 2022.