Michigan Monday: Maryland and Ohio State's Programs Still In Flux

We are now less then two weeks away from the season starting and two football programs in the Big Ten East continues to deal with separate awful situations, that have put their highest profile programs in question.

Maryland's Board of Regents met on Friday and rumors are there might be sweeping changes announced soon.

At Ohio State, the investigation report on Urban Meyer was delivered to the schools President yesterday and will be presented to OSU's Board of Regents this week.  Rumors on this one are all over the board.

No matter what happens to Meyer and Durkin's job status, college football coaches are much more then football coaches these days.  Anyone remember that old football movie with Tom Cruise called "All The Right Moves"?   During the movie, he yells something at his coach like, "Your not god, your a god damn typing teacher!"

People also used to say, "stay in your lane and just coach football" That is not the case anymore, where examples like Penn State, Baylor, and Michigan State have shown leaders take a blind eye to un-mentionable crimes.

Head football coaches at major programs are paid big dollars to win football games but with that big salary comes big responsibilities.  Meaning, these coaches have to be leaders on and off the field like never before. Durkin can't coach football like its a boot camp and take kids to their breaking point and Urban can't protect a trouble making wife abusing assistant coach who is the grandson of his mentor.  These are two examples of guys that just don't understand the world outside football, they stayed in their lanes and now should be fired for it.

No matter what the finding are, both Durkin and Meyer lacked leadership and the ability to make the right decisions.   Winning football games is not worth a young mans life or protecting an abuser because he is related to your mentor.    It will be interesting to see if both Universities has the proper leadership in place to make the right decision moving forward or do they just want to win football games?

• Taco Charlton is having a great pre-season for the Cowboys and was named the player of the game this weekend.  

• Big Mo Hurst got his first pre-season sack for the Raiders.  

• Michigan's Basketball team plays its first game in Spain this morning.  No media coverage, so you  will have to check twitter or other social media for game updates.  Game starts at 11:00AM EST.

• Sounds like Eddie McDoom is heading to USF.  That is a good fit with a good coach. 

from The BIG HOUSE Blog http://mbighouse.blogspot.com/2018/08/michigan-monday-maryland-and-ohio.html