{"id":4543,"date":"2018-10-31T16:42:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:20:59","slug":"why-didnt-maryland-fire-football-hc-dj-durkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/31\/why-didnt-maryland-fire-football-hc-dj-durkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Why didn&#8217;t Maryland fire Football HC DJ Durkin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4526\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/103118-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4526\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/103118-1-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"Why didn't Maryland fire Football HC DJ Durkin?\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why didn&#8217;t Maryland fire Football HC DJ Durkin?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>:-\/ Money and poor leadership. Durkin&#8217;s buyout would have been expensive, and Maryland&#8217;s Board of Regents isn&#8217;t well-known for their strong moral conviction. The subtext of this entire thing is pretty clear: UM President Loh refused to have Durkin come back and was overruled by the Board of Regents, so he quit (&#8220;retired&#8221; at the end of the year) rather than lead a school that would act in this way. Looks like the ACC got rid of Maryland at just the right time and picked up some quality schools (Go Eagles!). UPDATE: Durkin has been fired after an outcry from students and parents. Never let someone tell you that the peoples&#8217; opinion doesn&#8217;t count. This was a moral failing of the UM Board that the citizens of the State of Maryland had to force them to fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>:-\/ Money and poor leadership. Durkin&#8217;s buyout would have been expensive, and Maryland&#8217;s Board of Regents isn&#8217;t well-known for their strong moral conviction. The subtext of this entire thing is pretty clear: UM President Loh refused to have Durkin come back and was overruled by the Board of Regents, so he quit (&#8220;retired&#8221; at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/31\/why-didnt-maryland-fire-football-hc-dj-durkin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t Maryland fire Football HC DJ Durkin?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}