OT: DJ Durkin Letter to Terp Nation
I get emails from all the schools I've bought Michigan tickets from - PSU, Rutgers, Maryland, Uconn, etc... This email popped up in my inbox today.
It also links to this page:
http://www.umterps.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=29700&ATCLID=21055157…
December 4th, 2015 at 12:22 PM ^
Prick
December 4th, 2015 at 12:25 PM ^
Yeah what an asshole, took a 100+% raise to become CEO of his own enterprise.
December 4th, 2015 at 12:33 PM ^
...Only to be let go 3 years later as said enterprise sinks to the bottom of its field and is forced to take on his old job at a crummier location at a discount. Still, he'll get to tell his grandkids about the time he was a head coach for three years and went 10-26.
December 4th, 2015 at 12:34 PM ^
Footage of DJ 3 years from now if/when that happens:
December 4th, 2015 at 1:13 PM ^
December 4th, 2015 at 2:24 PM ^
It's all that Under Armour money! It does that
December 4th, 2015 at 2:50 PM ^
BUT, loses all his hair. Must be the steroids!
December 4th, 2015 at 12:45 PM ^
Can something that's already on the bottom still sink?
December 4th, 2015 at 1:09 PM ^
Yes, it can be worse. But He'll do a better job than Edsall. There are a lot of recruits in his area - and for this, we should all be really happy we're retaining Partridge.
December 4th, 2015 at 1:23 PM ^
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December 4th, 2015 at 1:51 PM ^
If it's the same position, yeah
December 4th, 2015 at 1:24 PM ^
ask Rutgers
December 4th, 2015 at 12:58 PM ^
Given even a small chance of success I'll go for the try and fail option over the fail to try option. Or, are we supposed to sit and wait for only sure-fire options.
December 4th, 2015 at 3:04 PM ^
Okay, but let's actually think about this (which I don't think he did):
Michigan's defense is probably going to be as good as it was this year and possibly better. If Durkin sticks it out and improves, guess what? I'm betting there will be better jobs than Maryland available to him. Worst case scenario, the defense is about the same and guess what? There will probably be better jobs than Maryland available, ones where he has a much greater chance at success.
Like I said below: This just screams impulsive and thoughtless. He saw $$ and didn't think at all about the situation itself. Sure, he can comfort himself with a bed of money, but I'm guessing he has ambitions beyond that and he's put them in severe doubt.
December 4th, 2015 at 3:53 PM ^
December 4th, 2015 at 4:07 PM ^
Yeah he'll make $$, to me, nonissue.
Would have been nice if he addressed himself more to the job he was hired to do HERE instead of pursuing his ambition midseason and on our dime.
December 4th, 2015 at 4:22 PM ^
the prospective employer will pay to bring them in for an interview. Michigan hasn't paid a dime for his trip to College Park. To think that otherwise is wrong.
December 4th, 2015 at 4:55 PM ^
should have phrased differently.
"on our dime" wasn't meant to be taken literally.
Referring more to how he was on salary here, but not fully "aware" as the saying goes.
Thanks for the correction.
December 4th, 2015 at 7:59 PM ^
December 4th, 2015 at 8:57 PM ^
your point is, what, that people interview for jobs while they have jobs?
Glad you're OK with what we looked like playing OSU. I am not.
December 4th, 2015 at 5:26 PM ^
entirely thoughtless, since he clearly used up all this thoughts last week on this job opening rather than OSU.
December 4th, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^
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December 4th, 2015 at 12:30 PM ^
Hitler, Stalin and Leopold will save DJ a seat in the lowest pits of Hell
December 4th, 2015 at 12:36 PM ^
This is a completely reasonable assessment of the situation.
December 4th, 2015 at 12:49 PM ^
Judas, Brutus, Cassius, and Durkin
December 4th, 2015 at 12:56 PM ^
King Joffrey
December 4th, 2015 at 1:00 PM ^
I don't think he was in Dante's wheelhouse.
December 4th, 2015 at 1:23 PM ^
+1 for using Dante and wheelhouse in the same sentence.
December 4th, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^
What did the Royal King of Zamunda do to deserve this? He just wanted Akeem to get married to someone worth of being a Queen.
December 4th, 2015 at 2:53 PM ^
Don't forget Benedict Arnold!
December 4th, 2015 at 3:28 PM ^
Hence,
Benedict Arnold
December 4th, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^
Leopold Stokowski?
Aldo Leopold?
King Leopold?
Leopold and Loeb?
Nathan Leopold?
December 4th, 2015 at 12:34 PM ^
I'm irritated that he re-enged on his verbal agreement with Jim Harbaugh to NOT try and take Partridge with him on the way out. Super classy of him.
Believe me, Harbaugh isn't very happy with Durkin about that.
December 4th, 2015 at 12:40 PM ^
Any source for this assertion you'd care to share with us?
December 4th, 2015 at 12:49 PM ^
Seriously. If you post inflamatory stuff like that, you need to back it up with something.
December 4th, 2015 at 1:00 PM ^
if Harbaugh was pissed at Durkin, but all I'm asking for is some sort of sourcing.
December 4th, 2015 at 1:07 PM ^
no sourcing here, just fanning the flames
December 4th, 2015 at 1:06 PM ^
but he doesn't, he'll just post crap anyway
December 4th, 2015 at 1:05 PM ^
of course he doesn't have any
December 4th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
And a stadium that looks like a "shoe"
He's not going to Hell, he's already there!
/ s
December 4th, 2015 at 1:48 PM ^
Durkin didn't just go from 500k to $1 million, he went to $2.5 mil, on average. Five times what he was making, and I'm sure there are other perks. No, I don't blame Durkin in the least. Sour grapes to wish he stayed. We didn't have this problem with Hoke's staff . . . because other than Montgomery (who left) and Mattison (who loved Michigan, retirement, and his family), no one was worth being poached.
Honestly, I hope we lose lots of coaches, because that's a sign they are good coaches worth being poached.
December 4th, 2015 at 2:12 PM ^
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December 4th, 2015 at 2:54 PM ^
But the man di have us as a top 3 defense in the country for much of the year.
December 4th, 2015 at 12:29 PM ^
Everybody who is ripping of Durkin, tell me this: Would you say the same thing if Harbaugh were standing next to you?
December 4th, 2015 at 12:31 PM ^
Yeah. Its not really that controversial to not like the guy who was taking job interviews while there was still a B1G title on the line.
December 4th, 2015 at 12:33 PM ^
There is also this.