Maryland Football Report
It looks to me like they are laying the groundwork to keep Durkin.
“The commission found that the Maryland football team did not have a ‘toxic culture,’ but it did have a culture where problems festered because too many players feared speaking out,” according to a copy of the report obtained Thursday by The Washington Post.
The commission found that “during Mr. Durkin’s tenure, the Athletics Department lacked a culture of accountability, did not provide adequate oversight of the football program, and failed to provide Mr. Durkin with the tools, resources, and guidance necessary to support and educate a first-time head coach in a major football conference.”
October 25th, 2018 at 2:21 PM ^
“The commission found that the Maryland football team did not have a ‘toxic culture,’ but it did have a culture where problems festered because too many players feared speaking out.”
That sounds like the textbook definition of a toxic culture.
October 25th, 2018 at 2:23 PM ^
i think a dead body is really the textbook example of toxic, but maybe that's just me.
October 25th, 2018 at 3:18 PM ^
They are not mutually exclusive and I would argue the former caused the latter.
October 25th, 2018 at 3:01 PM ^
Tacitly blaming the players is also just pure fucking evil given what happened.
October 25th, 2018 at 4:37 PM ^
It’s like when OSU came out with a report that Urban Meyer didn’t lie but acknowledged that he told some lies.
October 25th, 2018 at 10:53 PM ^
Are you sure that you remember that correctly?
October 25th, 2018 at 2:22 PM ^
Does that mean Matt Canada's interview season isn't going as well as they hoped?
October 25th, 2018 at 2:23 PM ^
It wasn't toxic, but it was fairly poisonous.
October 25th, 2018 at 3:01 PM ^
Toxic, but not fully toxic.
October 25th, 2018 at 2:23 PM ^
Could have done without Harbaugh being named in the report as who Durkin "modeled his program after," along side Urban Meyer.
October 25th, 2018 at 3:16 PM ^
October 25th, 2018 at 3:26 PM ^
To be clear, I wasn't implying that that the Maryland program was like Michigan's. I was more saying that the report is kind of "bush league" in that it essentially name drops other coaches to make it look like that kind of conduct is routine when it clearly is not.
Also, I had not seen that video before. That is really cool.
October 25th, 2018 at 7:07 PM ^
This video is just begging to be turned into one of those "Me when [something awesome happens]" memes.
October 25th, 2018 at 2:27 PM ^
Why keep him? He seems like a decent coach, but not worth all this to keep. Go get Day or Brohm. See ya DJ.
October 25th, 2018 at 2:47 PM ^
Why would Brohm wanna start over? Day is gonna be the head coach at OSU as soon as Urban loses to us and decides his health is more important.
October 25th, 2018 at 3:01 PM ^
Why would Brohm want to leave Purdue to go to Maryland (right in the are of one of the richest football talented areas in the country? I don't know??
October 25th, 2018 at 3:04 PM ^
Are you saying Bumfuck Indiana isn’t a football hotbed?
October 25th, 2018 at 3:10 PM ^
I think so.....yes
October 25th, 2018 at 8:26 PM ^
Other than George and Yanni you could say that.
October 26th, 2018 at 9:43 AM ^
Just to clarify......It's West Bumfuck.
October 25th, 2018 at 3:15 PM ^
Because, regardless of location, Maryland's yearly schedule includes games against Michigan, OSU, PSU and msu, while Purdue plays Wiscy, Nebraska, Iowa and Northwestern.
Which side do you want to compete against if you're goal is to win as many games as possible?
October 25th, 2018 at 3:40 PM ^
I'd go to the ACC. Jump in the Coastal division at UNC. Win 8-9 games a year easy.
October 25th, 2018 at 3:45 PM ^
You actually think that's a coaches thought process?
October 26th, 2018 at 4:31 AM ^
Why would anybody take a Big Ten East job? OSU UM and Penn state will be annual losses. Msu and playing Wisconsin or Iowa could mean a 6 loss season even if you are good. No thank you.
October 25th, 2018 at 3:16 PM ^
If Brohm leaves Purdue he is going to Louisville. Nowhere else, especially not Maryland.
October 25th, 2018 at 3:28 PM ^
Is there really a difference? Both have always sucked but in brief moments, both wear an ugly red, both have sketchy coaches, and neither are in a place I want to live.
October 25th, 2018 at 4:12 PM ^
Brohm grew up in Louisville, his dads a longtime high school coach there, he’s played and coached at the school. His brothers have both played there. It’s akin to Harbaugh to Michigan.
October 25th, 2018 at 5:06 PM ^
Rondale Moore is from Louisville. When I watch that guy play I'm like...."how in the hell did everyone whiff on him"? Turns out he is from Louisville and thus followed Brohm to Purdue. He apparently could have gone anywhere he wanted to including Bama. I guess my point is that Brohm has very strong ties to Louisville which is what you said.
With that said though, he could get some looks at some bigger P5 schools.
October 25th, 2018 at 10:56 PM ^
That's it?
October 25th, 2018 at 6:15 PM ^
Ha. So if USC calls he’s staying at Purdue?
October 25th, 2018 at 3:59 PM ^
Ryan Day sucks.
October 25th, 2018 at 4:36 PM ^
Why aren't people talking about Matt Campbell for potential coaching positions? Making Iowa St. competitive is no small feat.
October 25th, 2018 at 2:28 PM ^
“Mr. Court would attempt to humiliate players in front of their teammates by throwing food, weights, and on one occasion a trash can full of vomit,”
Trash can full of vomit. Maryland football is ass. Durkin should leave.
October 25th, 2018 at 2:31 PM ^
How does one acquire a trash can full of vomit?
October 25th, 2018 at 2:34 PM ^
You can get anything on Amazon.
October 25th, 2018 at 6:43 PM ^
FauxMo? Is that you?
October 25th, 2018 at 3:16 PM ^
You've never been to a kegger in the MSU dorms.
October 25th, 2018 at 2:33 PM ^
More pressingly, how, exactly, does one acquire a trashcan full of vomit? How many football players does it take to fill the can? Do scholarship athletes contribute more vomit on a per-capita basis than walk-ons do? These are important questions that deserve thoughtful answers.
October 25th, 2018 at 2:39 PM ^
I’m skeptical after reading the article that Durkin was getting the vomit trash can reports daily. If only he had known he could have taken some action. As it stands, people were not getting him the vomit trash can reports so he clearly is not culpable.
October 25th, 2018 at 2:44 PM ^
Ummmmmmm, yeah, I'm going to need those vomit trash can reports by the end of the day. Okay?
October 25th, 2018 at 10:58 PM ^
How big is the trash can?
October 25th, 2018 at 2:44 PM ^
How stupid do you have to be to do that to a D1 football player?
I'm surprised he didn't get his ass kicked, at least once.
October 25th, 2018 at 5:53 PM ^
For all the talk about these kids' judgments and self righteous guffawing about entitlement, it would seems that the reason a coach didn't get his ass kicked is because of the repercussions that would impact "student athletes" if they were to do so. The power dynamic is so tilted towards coaches because of money that it would absolutely ruin anyone who attacked a coach, regardless of justification, because the narrative would be spun against the athlete no matter what actually happened. We laud Fort Schembechler, but it is an insulated culture that gives all the power to coaches that births cultures that happen at Maryland or Happy Valley, or East Lansing. I'm not saying that the same thing is happening in AA, but we have little to no idea what happens inside the program when the cameras aren't running. We should almost be more skeptical the squeakier it looks. Instead we have a culture where the institution defends the programs because the programs basically fund the institution.
October 25th, 2018 at 10:22 PM ^
The power balance is not tilted towards the coaches because of money, it is tilted towards the coaches because they control access to all of the things the player wants: playing time, preparations for a pro career, public recognition, etc. That's as true in lower levels and was as true back when head coaches were making the salaries of factory managers.
And the claim that the University of Michigan football/basketball programs "basically fund the institution" is laughable. The few million that the athletic programs send to the institution are a drop in a $2 billion bucket.
October 25th, 2018 at 2:31 PM ^
I have my doubts they keep him, and it is hard to bring him back now after he has been suspended for a season. I think this is an attempt to reduce their legal liability in the McNair case and reduce damage to their reputation (especially if they are going to have to shop for a new head football coach).
The one argument working against this would be that they would be able to avoid any buyout if they build a case that Durkin was at fault.
October 25th, 2018 at 4:32 PM ^
I'll go ahead and suggest that the people writing the report didn't care at all about Durkin's buyout. It's also all but impossible to limit their legal liability with regard to McNair's death. Their president already accepted that they were completely at fault and this doesn't change that one bit. It's just a question of which of their employees deserve how much of the blame. The settlement won't be higher if Durkin was at fault.
This does seem to lay the groundwork for bringing Durkin back if they want to. I agree that would seem to be a poor decision, for multiple reasons. The PR would be terrible and the locker room would be divided. Is Matt Canada really just going to be the OC after spending his only season as HC? And Durkin's biggest, I'd say clearly his only, strength as a HC, has been his ability to recruit. Good luck with maintaining that.
October 25th, 2018 at 2:36 PM ^
What the hell is the upside to keeping him? What parent is going to send their child to play for someone who quite literally killed one of his own players?
October 25th, 2018 at 2:44 PM ^
Brian Kelly says hi.