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Maryland Was Right to Admit Failings in Treating Jordan McNair, but That Won't End the Fallout

In these days of deflection and whataboutism, the words coming out of the mouths of Wallace Loh and Damon Evans on Tuesday afternoon sounded shocking.

From Loh, the University of Maryland president: “The university accepts legal and moral responsibility for mistakes that our training staff made on that fateful workout day of May the 29th—which of course subsequently led to [Jordan McNair’s] death on June 13.”

From Evans, the Maryland athletic director: “Heat illness was not properly identified or treated. Our athletic training staff did not take Jordan’s temperature and did not apply a cold-water immersion treatment.