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DJ Durkin still has support among Maryland football players despite being placed on leave

Jesse Aniebonam has worked a solid year to get back onto the field for the Maryland football team, and he hopes to be in form by the time the 2018 season begins Sept. 1 against Texas at FedEx Field in Landover.

The redshirt senior outside linebacker, who broke an ankle in the team’s 51-41 season-opening upset of the then-No. 23 Longhorns and missed the remaining 11 games of 2017, is excited about his last college season.

But he had been looking forward to another season with DJ Durkin as his coach.

That is likely not going to happen, as a result of the 40-year-old Durkin being placed on administrative leave by athletic director Damon Evans last week, with the chances of coaching his third season in College Park beginning to fade.