After spending the entire season to date on administrative leave amid outcry after a player died of heatstroke following a practice in May, D.J. Durkin, the University of Maryland head football coach, will be allowed to retain his job along with Athletic Director Damon Evans, the university’s board of regents announced Tuesday.
Maryland President Wallace D. Loh, who in August accepted “legal and moral responsibility” for the death of Jordan McNair, a 19-year-old offensive lineman, announced he will retire in June.
More than an hour elapsed between when McNair began showing symptoms of heatstroke on the afternoon of May 29, and when 911 was called, according to an outside report from a sports medicine consulting firm about the medical circumstances of the incident that was released last month.