Maryland strength and conditioning coach resigned and got $315K as a settlement.
I thought I read yesterday that he was fired........ it resigned.
Maryland strength and conditioning coach resigned and got $315K as a settlement.
Suck neg, kid.
I thought I read yesterday that he was fired........ it resigned.
haha. this guy thinks football programs care about players' health.
Overall, they certainly care a lot, but they are too slow to put in the right rules, procedures, equipment, etc. to ensure it is given the priority it deserves. Way too reactive instead of proactive. Hopefully that will change.
The Junkies have had a few old school football guys on their show over the past couple of days doing a sad job of excusing Maryland for this whole thing, Durkin in particular.
Blaming the trainer while calling Durkin's actions "exactly what every D1 coach does to motivate their players when they have to" is just sickening to listen to. Phrases like "these things happen" and "I got cursed at when I was a player" and "it's not like it was 115 degrees out" are the hottest talking points.
It's nice that most people recognize there's nothing subtle here - it's not cursing or toughness that's the issue, it's simple negligence and a culture that promoted that negligence as a kind of justified method of teaching. From the head coach to the training staff and probably even to team members themselves. Burn it from the top down.
I think Durkin is gone and soon. Just a matter of exactly when. One or two others may also go soon. "Soon" here means by shortly after release of the report on training methods, due Sep 15.
I expect Matt Canada to remain interim or acting HC for the whole season, with MD beginning a search for a new head coach.
It will be interesting to see if Damon Evans keeps his job when all the dust settles. He was the assistant AD over football who was part of the hiring of Durkin, then acting AD while (former AD) Kevin Anderson was on sabbatical, and was made AD early this summer. So all this took place on his watch.
Overall, they certainly care a lot, but they are too slow to put in the right rules, procedures, equipment, etc. to ensure it is given the priority it deserves. Way too reactive instead of proactive. Hopefully that will change.
Looks like Maryland finally consulted their legal and PR firms. Both said the same thing: "The best time to address this issue was two months ago. The next best time is today."
The repercussions were set - lose a wrongful death lawsuit, bad PR, recruiting hit. They're owning it and trying to take the high road to mitigate these things.
He made a joke about a Netflix show I don’t even watch but I got the reference.
He made a joke about a Netflix show I don’t even watch but I got the reference.
“He cited 33 NCAA football players who died while training between 2000 and 2016...”
I don’t remember hearing about these. That is a huge issue.
It’s almost as if the NCAA doesn’t really care about the well-being of student-athletes, just cashing checks.
Yes. We kind of had one a few years ago when NW tried to unionize but it got squashed.