Univ of Maryland found culpable in death of player

.....and also.....

Durkin may not coach again for quite a while.

S&C coach has already resigned.

I don't think it's a question of the severity of the punishment but rather how broadly you want to apply it.

It depends on if the death was the result of a single person's bad decision or program wide issues. I think the S&C staff definitely is to blame for A) working this kid to this condition, and B) not responding correctly when he collapsed. It's more and more circumstantial as you get farther from that. 

Durkin getting canned and hit with a show-cause for creating a culture the contributed to that would be fitting, but death penaltying a program seems like the punishment is inflicted too widely. 

same as deaths are in the military, correct?

Shop Smart - try using your brain.   You think the program INTENTIONALLY killed him?   How about waiting to hear the full results of a complete investigation to determine the uh, LEVEL of culpability.   You’re aware there are levels, right?   Or you’d rather skip all that and jump right to the hanging?   Wow.

Serious question, what should have happened to Michigan for the Shane Morris incident? No one died, but they showed they were incapable in that instance of being in charge of the well being of their players. It was luck that it didn't turn out much worse.

People lost their jobs, procedures were changed, responsibility was taken. The same thing is happening at Maryland.

Let's go by school:

Garden City CC - Player died in his dorm after workouts, medical personnel were called as soon as possible. Not the same situation.

Maine - Player died on the field, medical personnel were called as soon as possible. Not the same situation.

Northwestern - Player died on the field, medical personnel were called as soon as someone noticed there was a problem. Not the same situation.

Cal - Player died on the field, medical assistance wasn't provided, and the university accepted liability. Similar situation, and I would be fine if Cal's team was given a death penalty.

Rice - Player died after practice due to an undiagnosed disease, and medical personnel were called as soon as possible. Not the same situation.

Maryland - Player died in the hospital after showing signs of heat stroke for over an hour before anyone thought to call an ambulance. He wasn't even taken off the field for 34 minutes from when his symptoms first showed up. That's straight up gross negligence towards the safety of a student-athlete.

Look, I don't care if your school pays recruits. I don't care if your coach has consensual relationships with cheerleaders or administrative assistants. But I do care if you can't take medical issues with your players seriously. If you hire a coaching staff who won't take the health and well-being of student-athletes seriously, you don't deserve to have a team.

I agree and it's good to be on the side of infallibility.

Either they wanted to keep him if at all possible or they wanted the investigation complete to make it easy to fire for cause.  

So they don't get hit with a wrongful termination law suit. No they can fire him with cause after the results from the investigation. 

He was done.  It just had to play out so that he can legally be done for cause.  The whole situation is very unfortunate because of a couple big time dickheaded coaches that went WAY over the line of trying to create tough football players.  I feel so bad for the parents.  As a father of three, I can't even imagine...

Durkin is gone...now for cause. Maryland was never going to keep him. Investigation = cause.

Good riddance. 

Hey O$U, that's how you do an investigation. 

Terrible situation but this response makes me want to forgive them. Crap happens and it’s terrible, but judging by the list of numerous schools where similar things happened it’s not like this is unique.  But to so frankly own up to the error shows they have remorse and some character.

Contrast this to MSU who denied, deflected, delayed, got political, refused to do an actual independent investigation and basically refused to admit any fault. Or OSU who was totally fine with an employee destroying evidence while under investigation.  Where legal liability or football wins were more important than showing some character.  

Out of the 3 schools, I view Maryland most favorably because when this is all done, I believe they will make a legitimate attempt to remove the true problem from the organization.

Isn't that the statement Loh made weeks ago? I'm not seeing any new information in this story either.

Yes, that would be 'culpable' by admitting fault. You are right, I missed that.

Although, I'd like to point out that there is nothing in this article that is new. Per an August 14th article from ESPN, the exact same quote can be found.

On Aug. 14, after ESPN reported McNair was admitted to a local hospital with a temperature of 106 degrees, Loh revealed preliminary findings from the Walters Inc. report and said, "the university accepts legal and moral responsibility for the mistakes that our training staff made."