Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday morning that he was “shocked” and “outraged” by the Maryland Board of Regents’ decision to reinstate football coach DJ Durkin and called school President Wallace Loh’s decision to defy the board and fire the coach a “big step” forward.
“I was sort of shocked at the decision they came up with. I can’t image how they arrived at that decision,” Hogan said of the regents’ decision on WBAL’s “C4” show. “It just didn’t seem to make any sense to me. I was as outraged as many people across the state and the country were.