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Mississippi State is now floating a trial balloon that they're considering whacking Joe Moorhead. Three national college football scribes tweeted similarly worded messages to that effect within 2 minutes of each other. Just a guess: They've found something they think they can claim is just cause for the execution.

 

Until the kid that died under his supervision comes back to life?

 

A lifetime ban from the sport. Pretty strong take, but, hey, if you’re consistent with it, so be it.

 

What happened there happens everywhere but without the bad luck of a dead player. It’s horrible he’s dead. But are the events leading up to his death pretty common in college football? Or was Durkin unique? If the latter, he’s out forever. If the former, change the sport. Maybe he should work for Notre Dame

 

One of them better be a better coach.

 

What do you think?

 

I think if you put a ESPN investigative team on a football program, then had outside consultants produce a 190-page analysis of the program where the express purpose was to examine every negative aspect of the program, I think you’d find 15-20 programs like Durkin’s. Of course it’s awful and tragic, a player dying. Bowden had a player die in his program in similar fashion. If it happened today, he’d be out.

Which is why I say, if a lifetime ban/shun is what it is - knowing that said ban can only be executed by a Javert-like media corps - be prepared to be consistent. Or not. Who am I to say what the activist sports media should want on Twitter? That’s where this comes from.

At any rate, Durkin has a job and will fade into the background.

 

So the net-net of the dead kid is to blame the media. Cool.

 

If you want deliberately misunderstand my posts, go ahead.

I get the general bent - *and in large part I agree* - with the current media coverage of college athletics. It’s a giant institution, institutions are not to be trusted and - when it’s a public institution - there’s some sense that it’s part of the media’s job, and allowance, to protect the public good, to fight for athletes’ rights, to act as Title IX investigators, to expose what it considers “abusive” behavior, and the like. To repeat: I get it.

I also appreciate the complexities and obstacles that can come from the media having to be moral police - the inconsistencies that can arise from that, and also the vague (incorrect) sense that, if something the sports media twitter wants doesn’t happen, an automatic injustice has been done. (I.e if Jay Bilas doesn’t like something, then that something is wrong vs. Jay Bilas merely having an opinion.)

If it were me I wouldn’t hire DJ Durkin, but I’m
not Lane Kiffin - who does not strike me as an unusually moral man - nor am I Ole Miss, which hired Lane Kiffin. I find the moral posturing - and that’s all it is - odd, especially when the guy Maryland hired to replace Durkin beat up his own assistant at New Mexico and was accused of sexual harassment.

 

Joe Moorhead is out at Mississippi State. Guess they will drag his Yankee ass out of there after all.

https://www.si.com/college/2020/01/03/mississippi-state-fires-head-coach-joe-moorhead

 

Who was also like 2-24 at said stop. We can get into Maryland's hiring criteria as well. That's a whole other story.

I know it happens. George O'Leary killed a kid at UCF and those idiots built a statue of him. Accidents happen. Tragic accidents happen. I get that. It's horrible, but it happens. I think Durkin's lack of accountability is really what makes him a different case in my opinion. He didn't appear to give a shit and almost seem to treat it like it was a positive that a kid who couldn't hand his regimen was gone.

 

They couldn't even be bothered to toss this kid in an ice bath, which is the easiest thing you could do. And make no mistake the S&C guy took his marching orders from Durkin.