Durkin is back in 10/30/18, per the Regents. Can you imagine how Maryland would recruit athletes when your opponents walk into a parent's home and show that an independent investigation showed Durkin was partially responsible for events leading to the death of someone's kid on his football team? A disaster was unfolding, complete with the constructive firing of the President of the university by the regents, which president agrees to submit his retirement effective June 2019 perhaps in deference to the regents, but next day, the retiring president fires the coach the Regents tried to keep on-board. The president determined it is the right thing to do for the university.
The regents chair showed leadership; not good leadership. The President, under enormous pressure consults with student government, university deans and the business community and within 24-hours he exercises moral leadership. I know Mcwterps may not agree, but Dr. Loh appears to have saner judgment.
I don't feel so bad for Dr. Loh. He will never find another job with greater responsibility than that he exercised since June 2018. If he wants to keep working in retirement, he will find better work, as he passed the leadership test under great stress. If he retires finally now, he does so with considerable honor.
If I were the governor of Maryland I might start looking at what can be done to change the make-up of the regents, but they may be insulated from recrimination. Their regents are volunteers led by a chair who seems to have found comfort in a hot seat. You can't always follow.
