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[JeremyStrain]

I think Evans is the bigger problem than Loh, but agree that both should be gone.  They failed here immensely.  However Loh has a long history of being good for the university and not being a piece of shit.  Evans on the other and...doesn't exactly have such a background, to put it mildly.

 

I was thinking about this earlier, we can't forget Evans is the SECOND trainwreck as AD since Loh got here. I wonder how much Anderson knew or was to blame for things getting to where they are, or if that kind of stuff all happened after his scandal. I think Loh's biggest fail (aside from spitting in the face of tradition and moving us to a new conference for the $$) is that he let too much autonomy go on. I mean while I don't DIRECTLY blame him for the way things went, he could have prevented it if he had been slightly more interested.

[BSLMikeLowe]

I think Evans is the bigger problem than Loh, but agree that both should be gone.  They failed here immensely.  However Loh has a long history of being good for the university and not being a piece of shit.  Evans on the other and...doesn't exactly have such a background, to put it mildly.

 

I wouldn't label one a bigger problem than the other. I want Loh gone now because that almost certainly means Evans goes too. With Loh staying another 8 months that means Evans is probably around for the long haul. Worse yet, these two morons are going to hire the next football coach, and will probably have to give that person a 6-7 year contract. This needs to work the same way it needs to work for the Orioles. New president, who hires a new AD, who hires a new football coach. But, in keeping with the analogy, nothing ever gets better until the Angelos family/UM Board of Regents are out of the picture.

[BSLMikeLowe]

And let's not forget Wallace Loh was the one who named Evans the permanent AD right smack in the middle of all this mess. Loh has got to go.

[BSLMikeLowe]

I was thinking about this earlier, we can't forget Evans is the SECOND trainwreck as AD since Loh got here. I wonder how much Anderson knew or was to blame for things getting to where they are, or if that kind of stuff all happened after his scandal. I think Loh's biggest fail (aside from spitting in the face of tradition and moving us to a new conference for the $$) is that he let too much autonomy go on. I mean while I don't DIRECTLY blame him for the way things went, he could have prevented it if he had been slightly more interested.

 

We definitely have a difference of opinion there. That's the one and only positive contribution I think Loh made to UM athletics during his tenure.

[BSLMikeLowe]

AL.com: Former MD coach D.J. Durkin helping behind the scenes at Alabama

 

No surprise he'd resurface there. Saban loves a reclamation project, and he's the one guy in all college football who can be secure enough with his job security to take on a guy with DJ's baggage so soon.

[BSLMikeLowe]

Brings me no joy to say I pretty much called it.

 

WTOP: UM president's "retirement" now unlikely