DJ Durkin is....
- Thread starter Hawkfnntn
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Yeah. I dunno the guy said all the right things initially when shit got real with the findings originally. He's not the worst character to be blaming here is all I know. His hands were tied he thought and so he went along with the board. Then after the backlash decided to say F it and fire him anyway. Honestly if I'm him I'd have not fired him. I'd have just let them go down in a ball of flames. Retire next spring and just laugh at them.
Fryowa
Administrator
Loh knew he should have been fired the first time but didn’t do it just to save his ass. That’s despicable to me.
Contrary to popular belief he doesn’t serve at the pleasure of the BOR, and he has a duty as a public employee to put the welfare of students before all else. He knew he was potentially harming students, the team, and the school as a whole by reinstating the guy but didn’t want a black mark on his name. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want that guy in charge of a deptartment or school or association of any kind that my son would be part of. If he’d let Durkin back in, what evidence is there that he’d have any concern at all for your kid’s best interests?
Honestly Loh should have canned him and dealt with the BOR afterwards as a sort of civil disobedience. If a my boss tells me to go punch someone in the face, I can’t morally justify doing it just because my boss told me to and use that as an excuse.
The other side of it is that Loh would have had the entire country backing him up. He’d be hailed as a guy who did the right thing and flipped the bird to people who told him not to. You think they’d really let the BOR fire him and get away with keeping his pension or other retirement money? No chance.
He had a chance to be a stand up guy and he blew it. Loh deserves whatever shit hurricane comes his way.
hawkeyebob62
Well-Known Member
Loh should have done one thing, and one thing only: kept his mouth shut until ALL facts were in. He took "blame" on behalf of the university, he all but said the "culture" at Maryland was rotten, then he backed the AD but not the coach. I assume one of two things here: he knew the rep of the AD and didn't care, or he knew nothing about the AD and assumed, being "non-white" that he must be "good". Either way, wrong, stupid, etc.
Firing the S & C coach so hastily was also stupid. A FULL investigation, including past habits/behaviors/etc., of ALL involved, would have been a ton better. Who's to say, after all, that the interim coach is/was any better? Was he not part of the staff at the time of McNair's unfortunate tragedy?
Durkin may well be a scumbag. Certainly, as befits this forum, he's made out to be slightly worse than Sandusky or Paterno. But beyond hearsay, we don't fully know that. Players walking out "may" be an indicator, but we've seen enough in recent years to know disgruntled players get way more "press" than "normal" players who do their job, hit the books, and mind their own business. Everyone remembers the "CJs Dad" interview. Not a soul here could tell you what the Rudock family did that holiday season. "Noise" sells way more than "silence". But...it's never been said that the former is "golden".
Ree4
Well-Known Member
I think the best thing out of all of this is that we see the "good" power of social media, protesting and the democratic process that helped to overturn a horrible decision through shear pressure. I'm glad to see the masses stick up and correct a wrong created by those in power.
Well now that he's done that we'll see. The board wanted Durkin back and Loh let it out that if he did it he'd be fired too so we'll see if that's true or not. Obviously the right thing to do was fire him and clean house. It's what he should have done. But put yourself in his shoes. Lohs strings were getting pulled from who knows how many different directions. It felt like he wanted to do the right thing but we may not know the whole story. There's always stuff behind the scenes not thrown out in public amongst those pulling the strings. I don't think he's a saint. But he's not where the pile of blame out to be either.
Fryowa
Administrator
Actually we won't see though, because I guarantee you the firing didn't come from Loh. The BOR had seen the disaster coming their way (which they should have seen ahead of time) and told Loh to go out there and fall on the sword. Any other time I'd say that's a dick move but he deserves it.
It's like picking a side in the Syrian civil war. It's impossible because they're all pukes.
Maybe maybe not. We don't know if Loh just said to himself F it and did it on his own or not. If they didn't see this coming which it seems like they either didn't or did and didn't care. Either way making them all too dumb to be able to be keeping their gigs.
mopkins
King Kong
My guess is Loh saw all the protests and backlash and knew he was done in June anyway so finally grew a spine and said F it and fired him. Which it sounds like thats what he wanted to do the whole time
MelroseHawkins
Well-Known Member
Because he made every BIG 10 team rich with the BIG network.
What the hell does Jim Delaney have to say about the Maryland situation. That is a school issue.
MelroseHawkins
Well-Known Member
Yea, you have to wonder what Maryland thought was going to happen or if they thought it would just go away with time. No, not something like this. Players walking out, students picketing. Voices were heard and finally the sensible solution to a horrible situation got done.
Did Maryland actually think they were going to survive this with the same staff? My gawd.
MelroseHawkins
Well-Known Member
Well, the governor called him and the regents out on it. That's what triggered such a quick reversal. The governor could see that emotions were ramping up around campus and who knew what else might happen than just picketing.
Yeah, we see how well the school is handling this "school issue", now that the one practice that Durkin showed up at it JUST SO HAPPENS one of the kids that talked to reporters got assaulted by teammates.
News flash: the money that the B1G Network makes will not go away if Delaney does. He brought in Maryland and Rutgers, and both have been corrupt tire-fires. On top of that, we have PSU. And Michigan State. And Ohio State. And Delaney and the Conference does nothing. This crap may be good enough for the ESS EE CEE PAWWWWWL but the Big 10 Conference used to mean more than that. Now the B1G is the most corrupt conference in the country by a lot.
Stanzi
Well-Known Member
That's my guess too. He probably felt paralyzed at first by the board actually voting to keep Durkin then once the WTF wore off he said F it and fired Durkin anyways. I'm surprised how many people are shitting on Loh. He's literally the only person in this entire shit show who showed any morality or willingness to state the obvious. He was the one who said at the beginning that this was a failure on Maryland's part and that the University should take the blame. I get so tired of people or institutions who are obviously guilty but just deny, deny, deny. Durkin, the S&C coach, the other coaches, the AD, etc. all deserve blame. The board should be entirely disbanded for their remarkable stupidity and tone deaf decision to keep Durkin. Sorry, but I'm not going to come on here and shit all over Loh when he at least tried to do the right thing. Those of you whining about him and acting like he's just as bad are being fucking ridiculous.
mopkins
King Kong
I did read that the head of the board resigned today .
tksirius
HN's Love Doctor
I don't know how it works, but if it's by vote, then the only board members that shouldn't resign are the ones that voted to fire him, etc.
