Will Muschamp and DJ Durkin are friends and former coworkers, and South Carolina’s football coach has previously defended Durkin in the wake of disturbing allegations made against his program at Maryland.
But now Durkin has been fired from Maryland after an internal review in the wake of player Jordan McNair’s death concluded that Durkin presided over a culture where players were afraid to speak out about abuses by members of the coaching staff. And Muschamp, who, before the review was released, blasted anonymous sources criticizing Durkin as “gutless,” publicly declined to say whether or not he would hire Durkin on his staff at USC if there was an opening.