The inside story of a toxic culture at Maryland football

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. 

 
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/

 
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/
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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. 

 
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. 

 
@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...

 
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?

 
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