Did DJ Durkin Kill a Kid at Maryland?

Conference only lasted one week without a literal murderer in a head coach role, smh.

Most SEC schools would hire Hitler as a HC if he wins football games

Yes, he did. Kid died of heat stroke

Kid died during conditioning tests and the trainer ignored his symptoms and kept pushing him.

I dont even think Durkin was present during the incident and the Maryland University Board of Regents or whatever they have cleared him of any wrongdoing...After they fired him because of pressure from the players..

Wait a goose stepping minute here!

Was Kelly there?

Durkin wasn’t allowing his players to get a water break. It proved fatal to one of his players in some intense heat

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That’s a bizarre lie. It was an offseason practice run by the conditioning staff

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It’s not a lie if the entire truth hasn’t been divulged. The entire truth is between Durkin, Maryland staff and the parents of the deceased young man. I think Durkin is a douche but that never stops coaches from getting opportunities. Not like he’s gonna make a name for himself as a head coach. He’s not really cut out for that role

There is a coaching environment based on fear and intimidation. In one example, a player holding a meal while in a meeting had the meal slapped out of his hands in front of the team. At other times, small weights and other objects were thrown in the direction of players when Court was angry.


The belittling, humiliation and embarrassment of players is common. In one example, a player whom coaches wanted to lose weight was forced to eat candy bars as he was made to watch teammates working out.

Extreme verbal abuse of players occurs often. Players are routinely the targets of obscenity-laced epithets meant to mock their masculinity when they are unable to complete a workout or weight lift, for example. One player was belittled verbally after passing out during a drill.

Coaches have endorsed unhealthy eating habits and used food punitively; for example, a player said he was forced to overeat or eat to the point of vomiting.

A former Maryland staff member said: "I would never, ever, ever allow my child to be coached there."

A second former staffer said that while he has seen and heard coaches curse at players, he'd never been on another coaching staff with this kind of philosophy. "The language is profane, and it's demeaning at times," he said. "When you're characterizing people in such derogatory and demeaning terms, particularly if they don't have a skill level you think they need to aspire to, or they may never get, then it's rough to watch and see because if it was your son, you wouldn't want anybody talking to your son that way."

"The way they coach us at Maryland, tough love -- it's really more tough than it is love," one former player said.

Several current football players and people close to the program say that because of the program's culture, players were all but forced to try to complete whatever workout came their way.

"It shows a cultural problem that Jordan knew that if he stopped, they would challenge his manhood, he would be targeted," one of the current players said. "He had to go until he couldn't."

Several current players and people close to the program described a sustained pattern of verbal abuse and intimidation of players. A former staff member said "verbal personal attacks on kids" occurred so often that everyone became numb to them.

Way way more…. Espn article