Just one day after the Board of Regents had reinstated University of Maryland football coach DJ Durkin, the school’s president, Wallace Loh, fired him.
Loh, who announced Tuesday that he is retiring at the end of the school year, said Wednesday that he dismissed Durkin after meeting with the student government association, the department chairs and other campus leadership.
“The overwhelming majority of stakeholders expressed serious concerns about Coach DJ Durkin returning to the campus,” Loh wrote in a letter to the campus. He added: “This is a difficult decision, but it is the right one for our entire university.