A Day Late And A Whole Lot Of Respect Short, Maryland Was Finally Pressured Into Firing DJ Durkin11/1/2018
The truth of the matter is that we probably don't need to outline just how moronic it is for an institution of higher learning to not see the writing on the wall - or more accurately, the engraving on the tombstone - when it came time to make a decision on the future of a football program that could only be salvaged by one possible solution. I mean, I'm going to do it anyway, because Maryland's Board of Regents, which I assume to be a fancy name for a round table of old white men with an intricate knowledge of finance and a loose understanding of the state of the internet, deserves to have their stupidity summarized. Still, technically speaking, you don't really need me to tell you that thinking you could casually reinstate someone whose culture, by the admission of the school President, was complicit in an otherwise healthy teenager dying on his watch without the sports' world losing its collective mind is, in two words, batshit crazy. We're talking about an institution to which families pay tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars for their children to be taught how to best maximize their potential as future professionals, and the people making its executive decisions couldn't even foresee the most blatantly obvious of backlash because they are...wait for it...some combination of dumb and cheap. How's that for the type of irony that will make a parent rue the day that they put six figures worth of faith in an establishment that confuses its ass and its elbow when given the clear-cut choice between right and wrong? Jordan McNair didn't tragically die playing an inherently dangerous game like football. Jordan McNair didn't even tragically die practicing an inherently game like football. Jordan McNair died having been run one step short of six into the ground in preparation for practice before those ruthlessly drill instructing "amateur" athletes basically stole his last breath with their incompetence. Jordan McNair was essentially conditioned into a casket, and those entrusted with his safety basically stumbled into slamming it shut. How does anyone, never mind a group that's can now oxymoronically be considered a brain trust for a prominent state university, misread how society as a whole is going to treat that story? Floyd Mayweather thinks college is just a place that young adults gather to experiment with substance abuse while watching his fights, and even his illiterate ass could have stuttered his way through reading this situation better than Maryland did. The message attached to reinstating a mediocre football coach (not that that part should matter, but it definitely makes it less explicable) like DJ Durkin after his supervision, or lack thereof, led to the loss of an innocent life before it even really got started is not one that's lost in translation. However, I not only feel like we're speaking a different language than Maryland's Board of Regents, but also existing in an entirely different world.
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