CBS Sports Radio
The University of Maryland reinstated D.J. Durkin as head coach Tuesday, despite the fact that a player, Jordan McNair, died under his care in June. Strength coach Rick Court had previously been fired, but Durkin’s reinstatement was, in a word, stunning.
“I’ve been doing this more than 30 years, going into my fourth decade, and I’ve never seen anything more heinous,” CBSSports.com college football writer Dennis Dodd said on "Reiter Than You."
"A kid dies on the watch of the head coach. In the corporate world, he’d be fired just because he let it happen on his watch. But it took the school two investigations and five months to basically say, ‘Nothing to see here. Everybody gets their job back – except the mean strength coach who threw vomit at players. Everything’s good.’ I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Several Maryland players posted displeasure with the decision via Twitter.
“Forget about whatever the media says,” Dodd said. “Think about the players who walked out of that meeting [Tuesday> when Durkin was reinstated. That’s all you have to know about what happened today at Maryland.”