ESPN anchor Scott Van Pelt addressed on “SportsCenter” early Wednesday morning the University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ decision to retain football coach DJ Durkin and athletic director Damon Evans in the wake of the scandal surrounding lineman Jordan McNair’s death.
Van Pelt, a 1988 Maryland graduate, questioned the “political agendas and fiefdoms, tug-of-wars that only served to further fracture, not strengthen, the university” in the months after McNair’s death while offering praise for the Terps’ football players on the cusp of reaching their first bowl game since 2016.
This is not the first time Van Pelt has addressed the controversy surrounding the program after McNair’s heatstroke death.