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[Mike in STL]

Common mistake I've heard a few people make...Locksley isn't a MD alum. He went to Towson. 

[DJ MC]

Common mistake I've heard a few people make...Locksley isn't a MD alum. He went to Towson. 

 

You're right. I meant former assistant.

[Mackus]

Locksley is the price we have to pay for making the mistake of hiring DJ Durkin and falling for the ruse that he was decent person. I don't think Locks has much hope of getting the Terps where I think we should be, but I won't call for firing him no matter how much the team struggles. At least not for 3-5 years when the financial aspect of it is less disastrous. They didn't have the money to fire Durkin but they had to do it once common sense and human decency won out over idiocy. I'd much rather watch Locks lose than deal with the shame of if we had let Durkin return to College Park.

It's gonna be a long time before Terps football is adequate. No matter how long of a struggle it is, it's worth it to have gotten rid of Durkin.

[BSLMikeLowe]

This sort of flat, uninspired effort in a game where MD should have, at minimum, been competitive is just plain depressing. When viewed next to his previous record as a head coach, I've seen enough to believe that Locksley is beyond his depth, and no degree from the Saban School of Coaching is going to change that.

 

Worse yet, he's not even doing the one thing he was actually very good at: getting commitments from top local recruits. Without that, what do you have? A nice guy who won't get any of his players killed, but won't win more than 3-4 games a season. The hardest part about watching is knowing we're almost certainly stuck with this for at least two, and more likely three more seasons before the leadership at the school (whomever that may be at the time) will decide they are ready to swallow the cost of buying him out.

[BSLMikeLowe]

Locksley is the price we have to pay for making the mistake of hiring DJ Durkin and falling for the ruse that he was decent person. I don't think Locks has much hope of getting the Terps where I think we should be, but I won't call for firing him no matter how much the team struggles. At least not for 3-5 years when the financial aspect of it is less disastrous. They didn't have the money to fire Durkin but they had to do it once common sense and human decency won out over idiocy. I'd much rather watch Locks lose than deal with the shame of if we had let Durkin return to College Park.

It's gonna be a long time before Terps football is adequate. No matter how long of a struggle it is, it's worth it to have gotten rid of Durkin.

 

Literally speaking, the mistake was not in actually hiring Durkin. I don't see how anyone at the time could have foreseen what would happen under his watch. It's not like he sat there in his interview and said he wasn't going to give a damn about the health and well-being of his players. The egregious mistake was not having the structure in place that would ensure proper oversight and checks against what was allowed to fester within the football program until tragedy would inevitably strike.

 

And it still angers the hell out of me that at least two individuals who were largely responsible for making sure that structure existed are still sitting in their lofty positions at College Park today. But I digress. End of the day, the Locksley Era will be the punishment we must all bear for it.

[Mackus]

Literally speaking, the mistake was not in actually hiring Durkin. I don't see how anyone at the time could have foreseen what would happen under his watch. 

 

Absolutely.  I thought it was a great hire at the time and enjoyed the progress being made on the recruiting trail until we found out all the sordid details of his motivation methods.  I wonder if not turning up personality defects like his was more on the search committee or on the AD (the AD/University hired the search committee ultimately) or maybe Durkin didn't really display this disregard for humanity until after he was the man in charge and he let his awful subordinates run wild.

[DJ MC]

Absolutely.  I thought it was a great hire at the time and enjoyed the progress being made on the recruiting trail until we found out all the sordid details of his motivation methods.  I wonder if not turning up personality defects like his was more on the search committee or on the AD (the AD/University hired the search committee ultimately) or maybe Durkin didn't really display this disregard for humanity until after he was the man in charge and he let his awful subordinates run wild.

 

Probably more, "Oh, that's just how football coaches act!" than anything.