Anyone Following the Maryland Story?

"The belittling, humiliation and embarrassment of players is common. In one example, a player whom coaches wanted to lose weight was forced to eat candy bars as he was made to watch teammates working out."

Strange how this isn't talked about more. He took a scene out of Full Metal Jacket. Did the S&C coach expect the other players to pummel this guy with soap bars?
 
Feels like this incident needs an inappropriate Larry Fedora quote to go with it.

However, Im not convinced that embarrassing and humiliating players should be assumed to be correlated with killing them.
 
Anyone else still following this? Here’s an update:

  • Durkin and Evans completely obfuscated the investigation. Neither of them got punished except for a suspension of Durkin.
  • Matt Canada did a hell of a job coaching as interim and got snubbed the HC job. (Still looking for a CPJ replacement?)
  • Players walked out when Durkin was reinstated, blaming the obvious lack of accountability.
  • The president of the university was forced to resign over it yesterday. Evans and Durkin are untouched by his departure.
  • The student body is holding a revolt and drafting legislation to remove Durkin
  • The Maryland university system, who made the recommendation to reinstate Durkin, has had an investigation into them opened by Maryland state congress over the mishandling of the player’s death. Dinich reporting the board of regents forced the president’s hand to retain Durkin and that’s why he got fired.
  • Recruiting tanked and longtime fans and donors are pulling their money out
  • Scott Van Pelt put the board of regents and UM leadership on blast on ESPN
 
Can't wait to see the butt-whoopin Michigan St puts on them this weekend.

I'm trying to remember the last time things were actually good in the MD football program. Early 1980s is all I can come up with.

Texas has to be hating themselves right now. The only two teams MD has beaten twice in a row are Rutgers and Texas.
 
00Burdell said:
I'm trying to remember the last time things were actually good in the MD football program. Early 1980s is all I can come up with.
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Ralph and the Orange Bowl is the last time. Then they fired the coach that had done the most for them in recent memory, and was an offensive genius, but didn't cut the right profile in the media, and supposedly couldn't recruit, because they had a few mediocre years.

[cue ominous music]
 
ScionOfSouthland said:
Anyone else still following this? Here’s an update:

  • Durkin and Evans completely obfuscated the investigation. Neither of them got punished except for a suspension of Durkin.
  • Matt Canada did a hell of a job coaching as interim and got snubbed the HC job. (Still looking for a CPJ replacement?)
  • Players walked out when Durkin was reinstated, blaming the obvious lack of accountability.
  • The president of the university was forced to resign over it yesterday. Evans and Durkin are untouched by his departure.
  • The student body is holding a revolt and drafting legislation to remove Durkin
  • The Maryland university system, who made the recommendation to reinstate Durkin, has had an investigation into them opened by Maryland state congress over the mishandling of the player’s death. Dinich reporting the board of regents forced the president’s hand to retain Durkin and that’s why he got fired.
  • Recruiting tanked and longtime fans and donors are pulling their money out
  • Scott Van Pelt put the board of regents and UM leadership on blast on ESPN
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B1G having buyers remorse yet, I wonder?
 
Athletic Supporter said:
How on earth did MD defeat Texas earlier this year?
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Nature of sport maybe?

No Way we could be 1-4 vs duke in the last 5 years,

or lost 3 of last 4 to unc (who have never won crap except for 1 good team in the gator bowl?)

or be 2-8 in the last 10 years vs the worst coached miami teams in history .
 
Haven't been following this story, so may have already been addressed: was there a criminal investigation? Surely there would be after a death such as this. Given that the investigation cleared Durkin, this sure seems like another in the troubling trend of guilty until proven innocent.
 
So Durkin is going to pocket about $5.5 million dollars for being fired without cause.

That kid who died deserved better. As does his family.

$5.5 million dollars. No responsibility for what happened. How is that even possible?
 
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