Durkin fired
October 31st, 2018 at 6:34 PM ^
Being reported everywhere now
October 31st, 2018 at 7:04 PM ^
October 31st, 2018 at 6:36 PM ^
What OSU should have done.
October 31st, 2018 at 7:30 PM ^
Wins and losses...all that matters in CBUS.
October 31st, 2018 at 9:52 PM ^
Commit to o$u . If.you have zero integrity. Most parents of these kids DO NOT. Who raised them? Not my American Constition and morale values
October 31st, 2018 at 11:10 PM ^
This was done by the players. Good on them. Strong.
October 31st, 2018 at 6:38 PM ^
YAY!!!! At least somebody in Maryland has a conscience!!!
October 31st, 2018 at 6:39 PM ^
Now that is an institution with strong convictions
October 31st, 2018 at 6:53 PM ^
A kid died, not much they can do..I mean there was the ND cameraman thing, oh nvm.
October 31st, 2018 at 7:32 PM ^
Was thinking exactly this. At least Maryland held somebody(s) accountable for the death of a kid.
October 31st, 2018 at 8:18 PM ^
....I might disagree from what I have read online from a few different articles today. The President (Loh) wanted durkin gone, however, the regents said to the president that they want to keep durkin or they will fire the Loh. So Loh gave them the big f/u and said that he would retire/quit/leave your sorry asses once the school year ended.
Now it seems that after the outcry, Loh pulled the trigger himself and fired captain crabcakes without consulting with the regents - which seems hard to believe.
My take is that the regents are just as bad if not worse than the staee regents, big difference is that their President, Loh, has a fucking backbone unlike lou ann simon or engler.
This could still get interesting as how long will the AD be around???
October 31st, 2018 at 8:27 PM ^
Maryland is a real University. Not an AD with a cow college attached.
October 31st, 2018 at 10:19 PM ^
I like brisket.
October 31st, 2018 at 8:57 PM ^
I think Loh deserves some serious credit here. He’s actually doing his job and acting as a fiduciary of the board, not as a direct report.
October 31st, 2018 at 9:40 PM ^
Engler has a backbone. Might be lacking a conscience, but he knows how to throw his considerable weight around.
November 1st, 2018 at 5:03 AM ^
Whether Engler does or doesn't have a backbone is immaterial. He wasn't hired to have a backbone. He was hired to cover Staee's ass.
October 31st, 2018 at 6:40 PM ^
...didn't he just get reinstated?
October 31st, 2018 at 6:42 PM ^
I guess they reinstated him so that they could fire him. It's a process.
October 31st, 2018 at 6:48 PM ^
does he now have a case to sue them? is it normal to reinstate someone and then fire them instead of just firing them while they were suspended?
i think he should have been fired weeks ago but reinstating him might open up a payout opportunity for Durkin because he sure as hell isn't getting hired to be a Head Coach anywhere in the next year or two.
October 31st, 2018 at 6:52 PM ^
I'm not an MGoLawyer...but you can't tell someone "hey, you did nothing wrong" and the very next day it's "yeah you're a disgrace and we're firing you."
If I'm Durkin I'm suing like immediately.
Aaaaaand it puts me in a weird position. Like, I hope Durkin doesn't get a dime out of this, but I also simultaneously hope that Maryland has to pay every dime for enabling this asshole.
October 31st, 2018 at 6:55 PM ^
that was my thought.
"Hey we just cleared you" means you can't then fire for cause.
what is his buyout? he might join Charlie Weis getting paid to not coach football.
October 31st, 2018 at 7:07 PM ^
They talked about his buyout at like 5 mil a year for remainder of contract but don't quote me on that..
They were saying Maryland couldn't afford to fire him because the athletic dept was soo poor
October 31st, 2018 at 7:13 PM ^
usually if someone is fired for cause the buyout is not applicable. if fired without cause the buyout would normally be paid.
they reinstated him and essentially cleared him of wrong doing so i don't think they can say he was fired with cause but i'm not a lawyer.
I think they really fucked up by not firing him before essentially exonerating him and exposed the university to serious financial liability.
October 31st, 2018 at 7:32 PM ^
I think his buyout is $5 million total, not annually.
November 1st, 2018 at 1:20 AM ^
just found this on ESPN:
Durkin has approximately $8.5 million left on his deal. Per his contract, if Maryland does not fire him for cause -- which the university is not doing, according to a spokesperson -- he is owed 65 percent of the total, which is $5.53 million.
Half of the $5.53 million will be paid out in the first 60 days after his termination (by Dec. 31), and the rest will be paid on a monthly basis.
October 31st, 2018 at 10:16 PM ^
THe owner of Under Armour will help cover it, don’t worry
October 31st, 2018 at 7:04 PM ^
The best would be if the school had to pay Durkin all of the money in his buyout, but he would be forced to give all the money to the McNair family. You know, the real victims in this.
October 31st, 2018 at 7:12 PM ^
Urban's finding room for Durkin on his staff ASAP. Not only because of the Florida connection, but because Urban hires all the scumbags.
October 31st, 2018 at 7:19 PM ^
Hopefully Durkin coaches run defense so Schiano can focus on the passing defense. Best of both worlds...
October 31st, 2018 at 7:21 PM ^
Yes please. I’d love for a chance to shred his defense. Asshat
October 31st, 2018 at 7:48 PM ^
This is quite possible... after a year for people to forget of course,
October 31st, 2018 at 8:42 PM ^
That's assuming Urban is still there in a year
October 31st, 2018 at 9:09 PM ^
Urban has already forgotten. Problem solved.
October 31st, 2018 at 9:38 PM ^
He certainly wouldn't have any saved texts after that amount of time
October 31st, 2018 at 8:04 PM ^
I think it’s more of after reinstating him they got so much backlash and players not wanting him back they had to save face so they fired him
October 31st, 2018 at 8:00 PM ^
October 31st, 2018 at 6:40 PM ^
I was thinking earlier today that if Durkin was still coach and I was the QB or RB, I'd take the ball and kneel or run backwards. Try to throw the game to get his ass fired.
Glad they went about it this way but it's still a head scratcher as to why they made that decision in the first place.
October 31st, 2018 at 6:46 PM ^
I would've pulled a Mox and thrown the ball at his head on the first snap.
October 31st, 2018 at 11:31 PM ^
More like the end of Varsity Blues where the team refuses to play for Jon Voigt...and he has to slink away, mumbling to himself.
November 1st, 2018 at 12:02 AM ^
Would have been better to be a Burt Reynolds in The Longest Yard and throw the ball in Ray N's groin twice.
October 31st, 2018 at 6:41 PM ^
Clown show.
October 31st, 2018 at 9:21 PM ^
LOL...Finebaum called it a disgrace to call it a clown show because it insults clown shows. Good one Pauli!
November 1st, 2018 at 10:59 AM ^
Don't feed the trolls.
October 31st, 2018 at 6:41 PM ^
Wow. Just like that. I've learned lately that Board of Regents can be quite shitty groups of people.
October 31st, 2018 at 10:44 PM ^
Honestly, are the chief qualifications of potential regents; being a monetarily wealthy, morally bankrupt, tone deaf, compassionless dick face? Where do they find so many of these, obviously unqualified, people. They shouldn’t have a say in port o john maintenance, let alone institutions of higher learning.
October 31st, 2018 at 6:41 PM ^
Hallelujah-right does trump wrong in the end.