SIAP: ESPN reports "toxic culture" at Durkin's Maryland

Am I the only genius who realizes these are completely separate topics and articles? Or am I the only idiot who doesn't realize they're double posts? Nothing is adding up right now, because it seems like both the board and the posters here are just... completely wrong about this.

This is a completely new article that has a lot more accounts of what it was like inside the program in general. The one you linked focuses on the specific circumstances around McNair's death. 

This article was about the death. We posted larger scale follow up articles about the program in general. No idea why they were nuked. Mods weren’t paying attention. 

Try reading the fucking article, it's a completely different story detailing the culture of the program that lead up to the death, not the particular circumstances of the death. 

Don't think this is the case here...Durkin and Court are evidently completely aligned in their actions and are both complete scum.

That’s what the situations at PSU, OSU, and MSU should teach us all. Serious scandal can happen anywhere, including Michigan. We’d be damn fools to think otherwise.

It all boils down to the HC. That's who the school hires and they trust him to choose and supervise his staff. Assistants have to follow their bosses lead when it comes to a lot of things. 

Bacari Alexander was suspended at UDM for his verbal abuse of players. Does anyone believe that Beilein would have tolerated that from his staff?

I've wondered if first time head coaches are more likely to cross the line when it comes to things like instilling toughness.

I would venture a big fat NO. As a coordinator, he was only so powerful andi had to fall in line with how the larger program is run. Durkin, in realizing his dream to lead a whole program, probably panicked in not being able to get a crappy team to play up to D1 standards. I’d venture his inability to motivate an entire team to improve resulted in a culture of fear because Durkin felt over his head and started to displace his anger on players. Pretty toxic and sad to see, but I do not think one can assume he was always such a toxic hypermasculine d-bag at other stops. I’m sure Harbaugh would’ve put him in place—and perhaps that was part of Dhrkin’s checking out, if he did ever step over the line. That’s my homerism, at least.

I would guess he was fine here. Culture comes down from the top and he had to take cues from Harbaugh, who by all accounts isn't a scream in your face guy (relative to other coaches), so he likely reigned it in.

It's even possible this isn't necessarily how Durkin is but just that the pressure of his first HC job and he thought he could turn around a soft culture by overcompensating with machismo.

That said, the part about how they're holding player interviews for the investigation within earshot of the coaches' offices and are apparently punishing the players that talked is pretty damning. That shows a complete lack of integrity there. 

Speaking of it being a tough mod week, do the mods have banhammers again yet?