The day after university president Wallace Loh fired football head coach DJ Durkin, provost Mary Ann Rankin authored a letter signed by the deans at the university urging Loh to call off his retirement.
“We believe Dr. Loh’s leadership is critical for the university at this challenging time and we call upon the Board of Regents and the Chancellor to publicly affirm its support for Dr. Loh’s continued leadership of the state’s flagship university,” the letter said.
Rankin is right that the university needs strong leadership during this time. The only problem is that since Jordan McNair died and long before, Loh has provided anything but that.