Termin came to Buffalo in 1987 and immediately began his mission of turning UB’s Division III men's swimming and diving program into a successful, respected Division I program. That transition did not take long as the Bulls won the East Coast Conference Championship and the ECAC Championship in their first season of Division I competition in 1991-92, with Termin being named the Coach of the Year twice in a 10 day period. Termin is the only coach in UB history to produce a swimmer that achieved an “A” Division I time standard, and compete at the NCAA National Championship. At the 2000 Spring USA Swimming Nationals, the Bulls finished 24th country, and this ranks as the highest team finish for elite competition in the history of the university. In his 20-year career, Termin has coached six athletes to seven conference Swimmers of the Year awards, and his teams have won seven conference championship titles. Termin has been recognized with conference Coach of the Year honors on five different occasions, and earned the American Swimming Coaches Association's Outstanding Coaching Achievement Award. Termin has coached every swimmer listed in the UB record book, and his swimmers have qualified for the Olympic Trials, the NCAA Division I Swimming Championships and the USA Swimming National Championships.

In addition to success in the pool, Termin’s teams have also excelled in the classroom, earning the NCAA All-Academic Team Award for eight consecutive years from 1992-1999. Additionally, in the 1993 Fall semester and in the 1995 Spring semester, the Bulls posted the highest team grade point average out of all NCAA Division I men’s swimming and diving teams. Since the Bulls joined the Division I swimming ranks in 1991, UB has made the College Swim Coaches Association of America’s (CSCAA) list of top academic teams in all but just four semesters.

Termin’s unique methods of coaching extend from the pool into the academic realm where he has become an internationally-recognized researcher while working with Dr. David Pendergast, professor of physiology and biophysics at UB. Termin’s research on the biomechanics of swimming and the development of a patented training system led to him being honored with the prestigious State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service in May of 2001. Termin was the first coach to receive the award, which provides “SUNY-wide recognition for superlative performance and outstanding achievement by professional service employees.”

When Termin arrived at UB, he founded a 60-meter donut-shaped water course in UB's Center for Research in Special Environments.(CRESE) Together, he and Dr. Pendergast test the volume of oxygen swimmers consume (the VO2), which is a measure of their “metabolic horsepower,” and then improve the swimmers’ VO2 through training in the donut to improve their efficiency and power. Termin and Pendergast also study swimming techniques related to strokes and pace control, and in 2000, Termin, Pendergast and John Zaharkin were awarded a US Patent for a pace-light “System and Method for Training a Swimmer.” The system involves an underwater pacing light system and computer program that can pace up to 24 swimmers at a time and run training intervals for an entire team. Swimmers using the system are able to alter their mechanics and immediately determine if the changes affect their speed. A two-year study of freestyle swimmers concluded that those using the system improved twice as much as those not using the system. The Patent is registered in 26 countries, and the UB Technology Transfer Office is currently negotiating a licensing agreement for the technology.

In addition, Termin was instrumental in convincing UB officials to install an ultraviolet equipment system in UB’s Alumni Arena Natatorium to put the University’s facility on the cutting edge of water treatment technology. The UV system was donated as a Gift-in-Kind to the University at Buffalo from Wedeco/Ideal Horizons, a Poultney, Vermont-based company at the forefront of ultraviolet technology, Environmental Resources Management of Pittsford, New York, the consultant for the project, and Final Filtration, Inc. of Amherst, New York, and installed in the spring of 2000. UB's Alumni Arena Natatorium is the only pool in the state of New York with an ultraviolet system which, among other benefits, cleans the pool better than chlorine, but without chemicals, and results in cleaner air for UB’s swimmers to breathe in as they train and compete, thus impacting their overall metabolic power and swimming performance.

Termin’s influence can be felt throughout the swimming world, and he is well-respected as evidenced by numerous invitations to speak at national and international conferences and symposiums, including the World Swimming Symposium held in Finland in 1998 at which he was one of only three Americans invited to speak. Dr. Pendergast points to the “published observation that (Termin's) swimmers’ times improve eight to 10 percent over the swimmers’ career while nationally, swimmers improve between one and three percent” as evidence of Termin's success at implementing his research findings to develop his swimmers' capabilities.

Termin’s influence was also felt at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. With Dr. Pendergast and Dr. Joseph Mollendorf, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Termin helped create a swimsuit with turbulators sewn into the suit to reduce drag. Swimsuit company TYR picked up the design and several international swimmers, including 200 and 400 IM gold medalist Yana Klachkova (Ukraine), 200 backstroke gold medalist Kristy Coventry (Zimbabwe) and 400 IM silver medalist Erik Vendt (USA), wore the suit at the games.

He has also been instrumental in establishing NCAA policy for conditioning activities. Termin argued that NCAA Bylaw 17.1.5.2 regarding the use of "equipment related to the sport" to be used during out of season conditioning should include conditioning for swimming within the water. Prior to August 2005, swimming programs could not mandate any conditioning in the pool outside of their playing season and were limited to dry land activities only.

Termin began his coaching career at the University of Kansas from 1985-87. In 1986, the Jayhawk women won the Big Eight championship and were runners-up in both 1985 and 1987. The Kansas men were conference runners-up all three years of Termin’s tenure in Lawrence. He also served as academic coordinator and co-organized the Academic Athletic Support Department for all of Kansas’ sports. Prior to that, Termin served as head coach of the West Shore YMCA program in his hometown of Harrisburg, PA from 1980 to 1985, leading the boy’s teams to five state YMCA titles and the girls to five runner-up titles. During his time at West Shore, he also coached two YMCA National Champions and one MVP of the National Championships.

Termin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from Clarion University (1979) where he was an NCAA Division II All-American in the 50 and 100 freestyles and set the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference record in both events, qualifying for the 1976 and 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials. He received his Master’s Degree in Sports Administration in 1991 from the University of Kansas. Currently Budd is a Full Time Instructor and the Coordinator of Recreation Studies in the Health and Physical Education and Recreation Division at Niagara County Community College. He also teaches a class in Movement Analysis, utilizing digital sports video. Budd and his wife Carrie reside in Amherst, NY.