He's obviously from the Frank school of never divulging injury information for better or worse, However, just because he didn't say what the concern was doesn't mean the concern wasn't legitimate.

Today's NYT has a front page story on the 25-year-old football-playing son of Maryland's head coach. The young man was found to have CTE.

I don’t think it’s wise to generalize what a decent portion of our posters are thinking. Many of us are perfectly fine with Tim Albin being cautious with Kurtis Rourke. What we’re not okay with is him struggling to communicate effectively about the situation that unfolded. If he simply said, “we were concerned about Kurtis following the sack and thought it was best for him to sit the remainder of the night,” none of us would’ve been upset with his decision.

This is Public Relations 101. Albin is a poor communicator with the media. He’s a nice person and good coach but he botched his messaging.

Hell, if Albin didn’t say “he wasn’t concerned” and that “Rourke was mad about not going back in,” we wouldn’t even be having this conversation right now. His comments made it appear as though it was possible for Rourke to return and they denied him the opportunity, regardless of if that’s factual or not. If we were a Big 10 program, this would be a media circus right now.