The Diamondback published a story this week outlining the feelings many high-level boosters have on Maryland coach DJ Durkin as we wait for the University System of Maryland’s investigation into multiple reports of player mistreatment under Durkin’s reign.
One of the donors quoted in this story, Rick Jaklitsch, is a member of the Champions Club, a group of high-level boosters who authored a letter of support of Durkin in August. Here he is putting Jordan McNair partly at fault for his own death, despite the university-commissioned report noting the training staff missed McNair’s “atyptical” signs of heat exhaustion.