Durkin fired

Just from what I read this week, my distant third hand take is the players and families will made this decision for the University of Maryland.  Who can blame them in this tragic story.  Thoughts and prayers continue to the parents and family for their loss.

now i can root against sparty this weekend.

They look like bufoons now.

Uh...wut?

From the  details released about the "independent" report the BOR was using, it sure seemed like they started with their conclusion (to re-instate Durkin) and massage the facts to fit that conclusion.  Reports of a toxic environment? Well it depends on what definition of toxic you want to use. Rick Court was an asshole who bullied students? Durkin somehow wasn't reponsible for anything he did.  Durkin made some egregious errors?  He was new at this head coach thingy, and even though he's paid millions of dollars to be a head coach somehow it was the fault of the AD who hasn't been around for two years.

FWIW

I completely support the firing of Durkin. I'm disgusted that the original decision was to bring him back. 

For those wondering why this was an option, I have some speculation. I remember hearing several years ago that the Maryland Athletic Department was in serious financial trouble. This is what encouraged them to leave the ACC and join the B1G. 

From what I could discern from reading yesterday, it sounded like the main concern of the Board was to avoid paying a buyout, which would explain why they wanted to reinstate Durkin. (And their troubles are likely the result of years of financial mismanagement. This problem is their own fault. I don't feel sorry for any of them.)

Ironically, they may have given Durkin some ground for a wrongful firing suit (judging from previous posts) by not doing what they should have done in the first place...

Day late...dollar short

I would like to hear their real explanation for why they wanted to keep him in the first place.

saying this is a “shit show” is not doing that phrase justice. What a slap in the face to that young mans parents. Rest In Peace 

So confused why reinstate and then fire. A delayed right thing is still the right thing I guess

Waiting for the Durkin to OSU as a DC announcement 

Between this and the B10 not retaining TV Teddy, am I wrong to start to have hope for humanity?

good. fuck that guy.

At the risk of diverging too far into um... sundry hinterlands - this right here is the power of protest and speaking out.

Most significant social changes were the result of protest.  You might think this is a relatively small thing - and in light of all the groundbreaking social changes that have come about in the last half century alone, you'd be right.  But from a morality, PR, and ethics standpoint, firing Durkin was about as much of a no-brainer as a quadruple dosage of hand sanitizer after a walk through MSU's campus.

And the UMD Board of Regents was still going to screw that up.

The Maryland Board of Regents, like most other groups of adults who are In Charge of Things, is mostly guided by its skewed perception of self-preservation that gets most of its input from influential people/groups in its peripheral orbit - i.e., well-heeled donors and boosters.  In other words, an echo chamber. You could sadly make the same accusation for many other powerful groups in the political, religious, educational and business arenas.  Left to their own devices, they far too often act as an amoral collective insulated from what should be common decency.  It's only when everyone else outside of the bubble collectively raise their voices and refuse to be ignored that they pull their heads out of their asses.

Well, it took them a really long time to make an incredibly easy firing decision - and probably cost themselves several million dollars.  (I assume they can't fire him for cause now, not after reinstating him.)  Crazy.  

As a Maryland alum, I am satisfied with this firing. Time to move on and up (or hopefully at least sideways).

I love how this happens right before sparty game. Perfect storm 

Awful decision to even consider bringing him back. A stain on the university that even the governor had to get involved and say this shouldn’t happen.

I don’t know why the AD should even keep his job after something like this.

Had to happen. Even if Durkin is innocent he can never be a head coach and expect to get the support of the program and families of future players. This will always loom over him from now until he retires. I’m sure he’ll get a job at a small school as a coordinator because so many teams don’t give a shit about principles. Just sad to see how much damage could have been prevented if the coaches were more compassionate to the needs of their players. Hopefully this gives the parents of Jordan some comfort knowing this guy will never coach again

Loh gets shit done.  Better late than never. 

Hey assholes, when the kid's family denounced Durkin, it was over for him. 

When ALL OF THE PLAYERS publicly made it clear they wanted this guy to fuck off, it was their way of making it very easy for you to understand it was over for him. 

Maryland did the right thing.  More than I can say about Ohio State.

This is on an almost epic scale of stupidity to reinstate a coach with this much baggage, only to turn around and fire him due not to specific findings of guilt, but due to public outcry.  How in the hell could individuals who are "supposed" to be tasked with monitoring and oversight of a university be so absolutely unfit, unaware and tone deaf to how this would play out in public opinion.  

The misdeeds and public mishandling of half of the Big Ten East should be required case studies for every public relations and communications program in the country on how NOT to lead through such disasters. 

Only the devil knows what took them so long, but they finally got it right.

Fuck the PC movement.  It is just a lynch mob that has no moral compass.  Good or bad, each person should be given due process and not hijacked by politics.  Durkin should get paid $huge for contract breach.  Innocent until proven guilty ... oh shit, the independent committee hired by the University said Durkin was cleared.  Yikes - sue their as$.

Edit:  down vote me if you must but this Maryland governor is just wrong, arbitrarily ruling like he is a Russian czar.  Come up with facts that dispute the reality of the situation as reported by the University commission.  Nope, he is just another me-too politician.  Sad shit.