UMD-College Park Has Lost Its Way

[Anonymous]

Seriously, the Board of Regents, confronted with a clear instance of gross negligence by its athletic department and head football coach, sides with the AD and coach and gives the college president the boot?

Perhaps it's not Penn State-level misconduct, but it speaks to a profound lack of integrity. We've told DS that we won't pay for him to attend UMD-College Park after this fiasco. The value of a UMD degree won't be what it once was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, the Board of Regents, confronted with a clear instance of gross negligence by its athletic department and head football coach, sides with the AD and coach and gives the college president the boot?

Perhaps it's not Penn State-level misconduct, but it speaks to a profound lack of integrity. We've told DS that we won't pay for him to attend UMD-College Park after this fiasco. The value of a UMD degree won't be what it once was.

Riiiight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, the Board of Regents, confronted with a clear instance of gross negligence by its athletic department and head football coach, sides with the AD and coach and gives the college president the boot?

Perhaps it's not Penn State-level misconduct, but it speaks to a profound lack of integrity. We've told DS that we won't pay for him to attend UMD-College Park after this fiasco. The value of a UMD degree won't be what it once was.

Riiiight.

I think many people are disgusted with this football fiasco but to say that it will lessen the value of a UMD degree is ridiculous. I am a proud UMD alum and am crossing my fingers that my DS gets accepted there this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, the Board of Regents, confronted with a clear instance of gross negligence by its athletic department and head football coach, sides with the AD and coach and gives the college president the boot?

Perhaps it's not Penn State-level misconduct, but it speaks to a profound lack of integrity. We've told DS that we won't pay for him to attend UMD-College Park after this fiasco. The value of a UMD degree won't be what it once was.

Pedophilia State covered up child rape for 30 years...College Pork is very different!

[Anonymous]

Op, your first two sentences are spot on. The third - well, that's your right, I suppose. The fourth is nonsense.

[Anonymous]

I am really hoping my two kids get into UMD CP. They have absolutely no connections with football so who cares about that in terms of future admissions, really?

[Anonymous]

Don’t let your children attend the University of Maryland in College Park. Just don’t do it. It’s not a university, it’s a canker sore with a couple of dormitories strapped to its septic side. It’s not a safe place for students. It’s a place for belly snakes. To quote Bette Davis, “What a dump.”

[Anonymous]

As a UMD alum and athletic supporter, I'm very disappointed in the leadership...

Should have fired all three

[Anonymous]

We live in VA but my wife's an alum and our DD is interested in phsics, which MD is strong in.

We won't even consider sending her there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in VA but my wife's an alum and our DD is interested in phsics, which MD is strong in.

We won't even consider sending her there.

Because of the football thing?

[Anonymous]

The right decision. Two investigations cleared the coach. College football is a purposeful highly negligent activity that society at this time has chosen to enthusiastically allow. 350 lb 20 year olds should be carefully losing at least 100 lbs and being kept from a future of obesity, diabetes, joint issues, heart problems , brain injuries.. Etc.

Any school that plays football at the D1 level is culpable in damaging their students.

[Anonymous]

Today's Washington Post:

"It’s not a university, it’s a canker sore with a couple of dormitories strapped to its suppurating side. Don’t let your son so much as look at an application...It’s not a safe place for athletes, or students. It’s a place for belly snakes."

Ouch. Yes, we will pass on this very sub-par institution!

[Anonymous]

Loh is Asian and Durkin is white. 12 of the 17 Board of Regents members are white.

[Anonymous]

If they fired him they would be on the hook for his full salary. They had no legal basis for firing so they would likely also face a wrongful termination suit.
The training staff was incompetent and not properly trained, which is not Durkin's responsibility.
I suspect more will also be revealed that the Board had access to that has not been revealed.

[Anonymous]

I hope hogan can get this decision reversed and DJ doesn't win any of his salary back in court