Maryland AD paid for football players' sexual misconduct legal defense
August 24th, 2018 at 10:54 AM ^
darn it: AD, not MD. here's the link that i think will appear as an actual link:
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24458938/former-maryland-ad-used-school-funds-defend-players
August 24th, 2018 at 11:03 AM ^
(gotta click the chain icon [third from the left] and then paste in the URL for it to show as a clickable link)
August 24th, 2018 at 11:10 AM ^
What the fuck? When impermissable benefits meets abhorrent behavior...
Also, here come the pigs - oinking about lying women again trying to get money and status by accusing athletes. Hopefully that narrative gets seen for what it is very soon: an embarrassing cliche that enables the continued behavior of weak men.
August 24th, 2018 at 1:57 PM ^
There were no impermissible benefits here. Schools are allowed to pay lawyers for athletes for hearings that could endanger their eligibility.
This is all some internal Maryland beef. The AD was accused of not following their rules for choosing counsel. Others are disputing that he did and that's basically it. It's exposing dysfunction at Maryland, but it hardly strikes me as any kind of a scandal.
August 25th, 2018 at 6:18 PM ^
Yeah, I saw that later. It's surprising to me that athletes don't have to use whatever student legal services provided to all the students. Thanks for the correction.
August 24th, 2018 at 11:16 AM ^
I am all out of outrage. I will stock up over the next month or so to be adequately outraged at the next outrage but my reserves are very depleted right now.
I really can't wait until they kick things off this weekend with the literal worst slate of warm-up games that I have ever seen.
August 24th, 2018 at 11:16 AM ^
Damnit B1G, can we just have 1 day where we don't double down on abhorrent behavior?
August 24th, 2018 at 12:21 PM ^
Didn't umbig11 claim there was a big MSU story coming down the pipeline too?
August 24th, 2018 at 12:27 PM ^
He did. He said it was going to drop before the season started.
August 24th, 2018 at 1:32 PM ^
Maybe that's not a thing, or it's not as juicy as OSU or MD. Either way, unless it's approaching Nassar-level, I doubt anything major will happen.
I mean, Auston Robertson's situation did not force Dantonio into early retirement.
August 24th, 2018 at 11:18 AM ^
B1G East is making the SEC bagmen look cute-and-cuddly.
August 24th, 2018 at 11:47 AM ^
As someone else pointed out yesterday, the Big Ten (and esp. the east) has total lost its moral high ground. SEC bag men are just paying guys for their talents in order to win football games. The Big Ten East covers up all sorts of awful stuff to try to win football games
August 24th, 2018 at 11:59 AM ^
true, but do we really think that the SEC schools wouldn't pull the same shit. Where was UF leadership when Urban was pulling this shit down there?
August 24th, 2018 at 12:03 PM ^
The SEC wishes their only issue was bagmen.
One of their star players is Jeffrey Simmons. Just this week one of Butch Jones' former players made serious charges against him while at Tennessee. Also this week, a TX A&M player accused the coaches of cheating and having trainers mistreat his injury.
There's always more, but they must be glad the Big Ten is taking the spotlight. Honestly if this Urban Meyer scandal was taking place at a school like Arkansas, without a very high profile coach, we'd hardly be paying attention.
August 24th, 2018 at 11:25 AM ^
How about Dave Chapelle "I didn't know I couldn't do that."
August 24th, 2018 at 11:38 AM ^
Chip....NO!
August 24th, 2018 at 12:54 PM ^
“I’m gonna go ask him for directions.”
August 24th, 2018 at 2:32 PM ^
"Dave...I'm gonna race him."
August 24th, 2018 at 11:33 AM ^
Fixed the title, with some noted difficulty - the first time, it only fixed the link but not the title. Don't ask me how that happened, because Drupal is basically becoming HAL at this point and it is beginning to freak me out.
August 24th, 2018 at 11:36 AM ^
So how much did the AD pay Section 1.8?
August 24th, 2018 at 11:42 AM ^
At least the Maryland BoT didn't debate for 12 hours until they found a way to save the AD's job.
August 24th, 2018 at 11:48 AM ^
You'd think Damon Evans would've learned his lesson. He was the Assistant AD down here at UGA when he got caught with his pants down with a woman (other than his wife) in his car and was relieved of his duties.
August 24th, 2018 at 12:50 PM ^
Evans was the person who flagged the payment and got the investigation started.
August 24th, 2018 at 11:56 AM ^
The Big Ten East will out-scandal any division in college football. It's kind of insane actually - this doesn't even have anything to do with the Jordan McNair disaster and it's still worthy of widespread derision. What is wrong with the culture at these schools?
August 24th, 2018 at 12:22 PM ^
Their legal defense was either coming out of UMD's budget or the state of Maryland's budget (via a public defender). I don't see how you could possibly get worked up aboit this.
August 24th, 2018 at 2:30 PM ^
I agree with this take. In the absence of athletes making actual money (like they should be able to), it seems reasonable that they do get access to non-monetary benefits that other students don’t. Legal council seems like a good one. As far as I know, even men accused of sexual misconduct still have the right to a professional legal defense. So I’m not sure why there is any #outrage at all over this.
August 24th, 2018 at 2:45 PM ^
It wasn't a criminal case. This was a university investigation that led to one of the players getting expelled. NCAA rules permit the school to pay for legal counsel in such cases. The only improprieties alleged are the AD not following the school's procedure. The AD is long gone.
There's really nothing to see here unless you're concerned about a little internal strife at UMD.
August 24th, 2018 at 12:28 PM ^
How does Jim Delaney still have a job???? This conference is a disaster.
August 24th, 2018 at 12:31 PM ^
Hang on, there is another side to this, and it's even WORSE for Maryland.
I live in DC area and was listening to John Feinstein describing all of this with the Sports Junkies, two of whom are UMd grads, these guys are all super-plugged into UMd. Here's what really might be going on.
The current UMd admin has been regularly trying to throw shade on Kevin Anderson for a while, for no clear reasons since, like, the guy is gone. So this is just an effort to distract attention from the current disaster they have.
The lawyer involved apparently said UMd's story, reflected in the ESPN article, is BS. Apparently it was football staff who selected the lawyer and Anderson didn't step in, or just signed the checks not realizing, etc. Something like that. UMd is trying to blame Anderson as if somehow that is something they should be caring about right now.
Just more circle-the-wagon, MSU/OSU style. Great effing conference we are members of.
August 24th, 2018 at 1:30 PM ^
The Junkies are still around? Wow, I feel old now.
It's dumb for MD to put this out there if the goal is to distract people. People will just think there's a toxic culture in the program and potentially kill local sponsorship deals. Not bright at all.
August 24th, 2018 at 5:08 PM ^
The lawyer says Durkin hired him, not Anderson. More egg on UMD's face.
August 24th, 2018 at 1:33 PM ^
So... at this point it's basically Indiana and us as far as not being completely horrible failures of athletic departments?
August 24th, 2018 at 7:53 PM ^
College football programs have turned into a joke, winning has been put ahead of everything no matter what the crime