Re: Unbelievable...

I always had a softspot for the twerps pre-2013. Maryland and WF were the rumored schools that stuck-up for us when Swofford lead the anti-Clemson campaign in the 80s.

Then the Twerps up and left over money. Said they could not compete with two NFL markets after firing a popular and winning alumni coach. They kept hamstringing themselves spending money they didn't have to alienate their own fanbase. You lose, hire unpopular coaches, lose even more and complain it was 'the conference". They tossed away a decent spot, history, and ability to compete to be a TV market for Michigan/PennSt

And idea/action taken by South Carolina is always the WRONG decision!

I kinda want another Maryland school back... can we get Navy?

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IMO - it is all about trying to limit Maryland's liability

Oct 30, 2018, 4:47 PM

for killing that poor kid (Jordan McNair) during summer practice. From the ESPN report on this topic:

"The board of regents insisted that DJ return, and this has been their highest priority," a source with knowledge of the situation told ESPN. "Some regents appeared to be obsessed with it. The problem is they don't have the authority to hire and fire DJ, but they made it clear that is their main priority here. Because they can't hire and fire anybody, which they finally realized, they told Wallace Loh that they wanted him to bring DJ back and the clear message was that if Loh was not willing to bring DJ back right away, they would fire [Loh] immediately and then see who the acting president was and get that person to [retain Durkin]."

The Maryland regents are attempting to use this cockeyed report to undo Loh's earlier comments to McNair's parents a couple of month's ago:

"Loh said the training staff “basically misdiagnosed the situation.” He said the university takes “legal and moral responsibility for mistakes the training staff made” on the day McNair was hospitalized.

This is no longer about that dewsh Durkin - it is about doing everything they can to limit the University's liability by making it seem that it was a "one off" incident from some underlings and not the result of a bad program culture. If the regents had allowed Durkin to be fired, they would be admitting the problem was far up the chain and the University's exposure would be even greater for allowing it to continue. So according to the Maryland regents - move along - no serious problems here as it was some unsupervised lower level underlings that killed this kid...

I personally hope the McNair family sues the britches off the University of Maryland and end up owning the whole darned rotten athletic department.