nic Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 President Loh came out looking like a boss. He re-instatnes Durkin after being ordered to do so against his betrer judgement. Retires "resigns" at the end of the year. Then fires Durkin....and the board can't fire him, because he already quit. 1 Quote Link to comment
Toe Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 Has there been any word on exactly WTF the regents were thinking? Only reason I can think of is just financial. They're not firing him 'for cause' - the board's recommendation probably made that impossible, at least not without an ugly lawsuit. They'll owe him $5.53 million. Plus a lawsuit from the kid's family is probably coming soon. This is probably going to end up costing them more than if they'd just done the right thing in the first place. And remember that Maryland got a front-loaded deal when they joined the Big Ten - they got a big payday when they first joined in exchange for a longer period of not receiving a full cut of conference revenue. Their overall 2016-17 revenue was second from the bottom in the conference: http://www.dbknews.com/2018/07/07/maryland-athletic-department-revenue-big-ten-tv-contract-payout-ticket-sales-donations/ Quote Link to comment
nic Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 2 hours ago, Toe said: Has there been any word on exactly WTF the regents were thinking? Only reason I can think of is just financial. They're not firing him 'for cause' - the board's recommendation probably made that impossible, at least not without an ugly lawsuit. They'll owe him $5.53 million. Plus a lawsuit from the kid's family is probably coming soon. This is probably going to end up costing them more than if they'd just done the right thing in the first place. And remember that Maryland got a front-loaded deal when they joined the Big Ten - they got a big payday when they first joined in exchange for a longer period of not receiving a full cut of conference revenue. Their overall 2016-17 revenue was second from the bottom in the conference: http://www.dbknews.com/2018/07/07/maryland-athletic-department-revenue-big-ten-tv-contract-payout-ticket-sales-donations/ No idea. There was no way Durkin would be a successful coach at Maryland after this and he only had 2 years left on his contract anyway. The only thing they could have done to make this worse was extend his contract. Quote Link to comment
Toe Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 Sounds like there's been some power struggles between the president and the board of regents before this, too, like when Loh renamed their stadium: https://247sports.com/college/maryland/Bolt/Loh-Recommends-Renaming-Byrd-Stadium-as-Maryland-Stadium-41829005/ A bit on the MD governor's relations with the board of regents: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-rebukes-regents-20181031-story.html?fbclid=IwAR0WN4Ftt7I2oMvkSnQHlvNZa7EI37nXFAYJq1FdjfSMztIu8jw0k2W9R0U Quote Link to comment
Husker03 Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 I heard this morning in the radio that they wanted to keep him because they basically felt the program let him down as they were lax on thier forming of structure and providing guidance for a young coach. They felt those were things that they could correct as an institution and basically didn’t want D to just be the fall guy. Still so stupid imo, but at least seemingly more just naive as opposed to sinister. Quote Link to comment
Toe Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 @Husker03 Apparently the 'structure and guidance' that they think young coaches need includes telling them not to call a kid a pu&&y when he's lying on the field dying in front of you... 1 Quote Link to comment
Husker03 Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 Yes, apparently there needs to be multilevel training programs in place to help teach coaches that verbally berating a student while he is dying is bad, mmmm kay? Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 38 minutes ago, GSG said: Another Maryland football player apparently doesn't agree: Quote Link to comment
Husker03 Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 Pretty easy to prove a black eye, stitches and dislocated shoulder. Quote Link to comment
Swiv3D Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 21 hours ago, Husker03 said: Pretty easy to prove a black eye, stitches and dislocated shoulder. He fell down a flight of stairs Quote Link to comment
4skers89 Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 https://sports.yahoo.com/maryland-despite-board-recommendation-fires-two-trainers-failed-treat-jordan-mcnair-194358444.html 1 Quote Link to comment
Moos is Loos Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 kick them out of the B1G 1 Quote Link to comment
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