Matt Canada, offensive tackle football professor extraordinaire, has been named interim head coach at Maryland. DJ Durkin was placed on administrative leave after an ESPN expose found a "toxic culture" in the university's football program that resulted in the death of a player from heatstroke earlier this summer.
Matt Canada has been nomadic savant his entire coaching career. Always an assistant to The Man, this is his first head coaching job. He is an iconoclast. He breaks icons. Genius manques like Ed Ogreon, like David Doeren, are threatened in the company of the real thing. One does not get the impression that Canada is aware that he threatens them. Geniuses are often like that it seems.
The University of Maryland's football program has been radioactively toxic before. It may be too far gone for a detox program but they have chosen the right man to try.
Matt Canada has been nomadic savant his entire coaching career. Always an assistant to The Man, this is his first head coaching job. He is an iconoclast. He breaks icons. Genius manques like Ed Ogreon, like David Doeren, are threatened in the company of the real thing. One does not get the impression that Canada is aware that he threatens them. Geniuses are often like that it seems.
The University of Maryland's football program has been radioactively toxic before. It may be too far gone for a detox program but they have chosen the right man to try.
